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The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment

The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521480884
ISBN13: 9780521480888
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 3 1998
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world.

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