Robert Burton’s Rhetoric - An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.

A propos de l'auteur

Susan Wells is Professor of English Emerita at Temple University. She is the author of Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity; Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine; and “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and the Work of Writing.

Résumé

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Susan Wells, Susan (Temple University (Emerita)) Wells, Wells Susan
• Edition: University Presses
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 11.05.2021
• EAN: 9780271084664
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08466-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Poids: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Thème: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Autres langues / Autres littératures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc