The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its French Antecedents

by Barbara Warnick

In the eighteenth century, Scottish rhetoricians Hugh Blair, Adam Smith, and George Campbell were intrigued more by the ways in which discourse appealed to an audience's taste and sense of propriety than by its reasoning. To explore the rhetorical dimensions of aesthetic influence, Blair, Smith, and Campbell looked to seventeenth-century views of beauty, novelty, and "the Sublime." In The Sixth Canon, Barbara Warnick explains how the influence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872498921
• ISBN13: 9780872498921
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"