The Performance of Conviction Plainness and Rhetoric in the Early English Renaissance - Rhetoric & Society

Kenneth J. E Graham

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Interprets the stylistic feature of plainness in English Renaissance literature not only as a literary style but also as a mode of political and religious rhetoric. Argues that simple and direct assertions without substantiating arguments were claims to absolute truth that needed no explanation, and that their proliferation reflected the failure of

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ISBN:	9780801428715
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Imprint:	Cornell University Press
Pub date:	15 Jul 1994
DEWEY:	820.9003
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	520g
Height:	152mm
Width:	229mm
Spine width:	19mm