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Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance
By (Author) Debora K. Shuger
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Language learning: writing skills
820.9382
Paperback
302
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
425g
"There are no studies of a sacred grand style in the English Renaissance," writes Debora Shuger, "because even according to its practitioners it was not supposed to exist." Yet the grand style forms the unacknowledged center of traditional rhetorical theory. In this first history of the grand style, Professor Shuger explores the growth of a Christi