Value in the New Rhetoric : I. A. Richards and the Necessity of "Ethos." / Stuart C. Brown.

In much current literary and rhetorical theory, analysis of text assumes greater authority than the text and its creator. Through a reexamination of the ancient Greeks' notion of "ethos" (the residue of the writer or speaker in the text), the writer, reader, and text can be reunited, particularly in...

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Main Author: Brown, Stuart C., 1938-
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990.
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Physical Description:15 pages
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