SwiftHarvester Press, 1986 - 153 pages |
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... rhetorical art by Martin Price ; a work that , in New Critical vein , attempts to identify recurrent Swiftian themes . In concluding , Price vindicates such an analysis by defining these rhetorical devices as ' methods ... for ...
... rhetorical art by Martin Price ; a work that , in New Critical vein , attempts to identify recurrent Swiftian themes . In concluding , Price vindicates such an analysis by defining these rhetorical devices as ' methods ... for ...
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... rhetorical ' fabrics ' to win general assent . The claim that he is merely expounding a truth obvious to his audience's common sense achieves its clarity by way of skill and rhetorical cunning . The art by which artifice is hidden is ...
... rhetorical ' fabrics ' to win general assent . The claim that he is merely expounding a truth obvious to his audience's common sense achieves its clarity by way of skill and rhetorical cunning . The art by which artifice is hidden is ...
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... rhetorical , a means to indicate history whilst not joining its compromises and divisions . Such an ' innocent ' character , however , could still highlight them by asking awkward questions : ' Am I a Free - man in England , and do I ...
... rhetorical , a means to indicate history whilst not joining its compromises and divisions . Such an ' innocent ' character , however , could still highlight them by asking awkward questions : ' Am I a Free - man in England , and do I ...
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