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020			_a9780199651368 _c(pbk)
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100			_aToye, Richard
245			_aRhetoric : a very short introduction
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2013
300			_axiii, 122 p. : _bill. ; _c17.4 cm.
365			_aINR _b299.00 _d00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aRhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetoric today is no longer admired. Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language-empty words, empty rhetoric--and therefore as something quite negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral terms, as the "art of persuasion," it is clear that we are all forced to engage with it at some level, if only because we are constantly exposed to the rhetoric of others. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Toye explores the purpose of rhetoric. Rather than presenting a defense of it, he considers it as the foundation-stone of civil society, and an essential part of any democratic process. Using wide-ranging examples from ancient Greece, medieval Islamic preaching, the wartime speeches of Winston Churchill, and modern cinema, Toye considers why we should all have an appreciation of the art of rhetoric.
650			_aRhetoric
650			_aHistory
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