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The Literature of Controversy - Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius (Hardcover)
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The Literature of Controversy - Polemical Strategy from Milton to Junius (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1987, The Literature of Controversy is a
collection of essays by scholars from Britain, the United States,
and Australia on major works from a classic epoch of English
controversial prose. Each essay engages a single text or series of
texts, less to discuss the ideas and arguments per se than to
consider the rhetorical techniques assumed for the political
manipulation of the readers. Though emphasis varies from
contribution to contribution, the purpose, broadly, is to explore
how the constituents of those texts are organised to coax, cajole,
persuade or inspire those to whom they address. As the editor
argues in his introduction, this approach, the critique of
polemical strategy, for the most part accepts the validity of
paying regard to the author and his intentions; it engages
questions about the responses of the readership at which the texts
were targeted; and it proceeds intertextuality in its attempts to
reconstruct the controversies in which the texts were embedded and
the codes within which they operated. This book will be of interest
to students of literature, rhetoric and history.
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