| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Series |
Landmarks in rhetoric and public address |
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Landmarks in rhetoric and public address.
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| Contents |
Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Major Events in the Life of Peter Ramus; Introduction: Notes; Introduction: Bibliography; Translation; The Text; Index to Introduction; Author Bio; Also in the Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address Series; Back Cover |
| Summary |
First published in 1986, this book offers the Latin text and English translation of a pivotal work by one of the most influential and controversial writers of early modern times. Pierre de la Ramée, better known as Peter Ramus, was a college instructor in Paris who published a number of books attacking and attempting to refute foundational texts in philosophy and rhetoric. He began in the early 1540s with books on Aristotle-which were later banned and burned-and Cicero, and later, in 1549, he published Rhetoricae Distinctiones in Quintilianum. The purpose of Ramus's bo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English and Latin |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Quintilian. Institutiones oratoriae.
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| SUBJECT |
Institutiones oratoriae (Quintilian) fast |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800
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Oratory -- Early works to 1800
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Public Speaking.
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Oratory
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Rhetoric
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Early works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newlands, Carole Elizabeth
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Murphy, James Jerome
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| ISBN |
9780809386147 |
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0809386143 |
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