Rhetorics of Order/ordering Rhetorics in English Neoclassical LiteratureJohn Douglas Canfield, J. Paul Hunter University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 200 pages This collection of essays on the rhetorics of order in English neoclassical literature includes Rose A. Zimbardo's investigation of generic slippage between drama and novel in works by Dryden and Behn; Maynard Mack's analysis of Pope's enduring rhetorics of presentation; and Patricia Meyer Spacks's examination of the heroines of Clarissa and the Italian. |
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... imagine a landscape into being . That is why , as Dryden said in his preface , his effects in this play are better appreciated when they are read than when they are heard in performance . The effects of a complex and variegated ...
... imagine a landscape into being . That is why , as Dryden said in his preface , his effects in this play are better appreciated when they are read than when they are heard in performance . The effects of a complex and variegated ...
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... Judgment in Locke I shall imagine I have done some service to Truth , Peace , and Learning if , by any enlargement on this Subject , I can make Men reflect on their own Use of Language ; and give them Reason to suspect 138 JOHN SITTER.
... Judgment in Locke I shall imagine I have done some service to Truth , Peace , and Learning if , by any enlargement on this Subject , I can make Men reflect on their own Use of Language ; and give them Reason to suspect 138 JOHN SITTER.
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... imagine Elizabeth Shandy in the adulterous arms of someone else , but it is hard to imagine her sexually at all , and the anecdote of the clock does not help . To think her an adventurer is not much more of a task than imagining her ...
... imagine Elizabeth Shandy in the adulterous arms of someone else , but it is hard to imagine her sexually at all , and the anecdote of the clock does not help . To think her an adventurer is not much more of a task than imagining her ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Poetical Injustice in Some Neglected Masterpieces | 23 |
The Late SeventeenthCentury Dilemma | 46 |
Copyright | |
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