The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment

by Robinson, Ian
ISBN: 9780521480888
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Overview

Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Robinson, Ian
  • ISBN: 9780521480888
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.16 x 0.69
  • Number Of Pages: 236
  • Publication Year: 1998