Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Author : Hugh Blair
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1858
Category : English language
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Author : Hugh Blair
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Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1858
Category : English language
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Author : Hugh Blair
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1857
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Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809388431
This new edition of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. The book seeks to generate a renewed interest in Blair by provoking new inquiries into the tradition of belletristic rhetoric and by serving as both aid and incentive to others who may join in the project of improving understanding of this landmark rhetorical scholarship. This edition contains forty-seven lectures and remains faithful to the text of the 1785 London edition. The editors contextualize Hugh Blair’s motivations and thinking by providing in their introduction an extended account of Blair’s life and era. The bibliography of works by and about Blair is an invaluable aid, surpassing previous research on Blair. Although the extent of its influence cannot be measured fully, Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres was undoubtedly a primary vehicle for introducing many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholars to classical rhetoric and French belletristic rhetoric—its success due in part to the ease with which the lectures combine neoclassical and Enlightenment thought, accommodating emerging social concerns. Ferreira-Buckley and Halloran’s extensive treatment revives the tradition of belletristic rhetoric, improving the understanding of Blair’s place in the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourse, while finding him relevant in the twenty-first century.
Author : Ebenezer Porter
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Elocution
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Author : Ebenezer Porter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 27,97 MB
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368761803
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Author : Hugh Blair
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1820
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 1838
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Author : Mark Forsyth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1101611766
This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.
Author : William Barron
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Page : 638 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1806
Category : Literary style
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Author : Hugh Blair
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1784
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