Christian plain style : the evolution of a spiritual ideal /

Locating the roots of the plain style in secular and philosophic classicism, Auksi examines theories on classical rhetoric from Demetrius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus to Cicero and Quintilian. He shows how biblicists deliberately transformed a heathen mode, and demonstrates that rhetoric served a...

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Main Author: Auksi, Peter, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.
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