Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity

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Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usual

The Language of History in the Renaissance

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At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure of knowledge

Theory as Practice

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There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers—as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

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Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic

The History of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of History

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In the articles collected here Nancy Struever explores the basic assumption that rhetoric is not simply a bag of persuasive tricks, but functions, necessarily,