In Defence of Rhetoric¶
Vickers. (1989). In Defence of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press.
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- The figure is a staple of epideictic and deliberative oratory from Gorgias and Isocrates through the eighteenth-century English prose tradition — Pope's heroic couplets, Johnson's periodic sentences — and into modern political speechwriting and advertising copy
This sourceA defence of rhetoric tracing its classical development, Renaissance triumph and later decline, and the continuing analytic value of its figures; the eighteenth-century, speechwriting and advertising links in this sentence are not covered by it.
- The figure is a staple of epideictic and deliberative oratory from Gorgias and Isocrates through the eighteenth-century English prose tradition — Pope's heroic couplets, Johnson's periodic sentences — and into modern political speechwriting and advertising copy
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