Letter-Writing Manuals And Instruction from Antiquity to the Present - Historical And Bibliographic Studies

Informationen zum Autor Linda C. Mitchell, a professor of English at San José State University, is the author of Grammar Wars: Language as Cultural Battleground in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England and coeditor, with Susan Green, of The Cultural History of Letter Writing. Klappentext Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials -- from Isocrates to email -- that form the basis for its study. Zusammenfassung Contends that the study of letter-writing theory! which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies! represents a discipline in need of definition. This volume sketches the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.

Product details

• Authors: Carol (EDT)/ Mitchell Poster
• Assisted by: Linda Mitchell (Editor), Linda C Mitchell (Editor), Linda C. Mitchell (Editor), Carol Poster (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2007
• EAN: 9781570036514
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-651-4
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science