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Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance
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Full Title:
Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance
Contributors:
By (Author) Debora K. Shuger
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Language learning: writing skills
Islam
Dewey:
820.9382
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
302
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
595g
Description
"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
