Author: Hugh BlairPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres ... Twelfth edition
Author: Hugh BlairLectures on rhetoric and belles lettres ... Twelfth edition
Author: Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ... The Seventh Edition.
Author: Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Author: Hugh BlairPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Speaking in Court
Author: Andrew WatsonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030103951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client’s case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many influences. Andrew Watson examines the numerous principal factors, from the effect on juniors of successful styles deployed by senior advocates, changes in court procedure, reforms in laws determining who and what may be put before courts, the amount of media reporting of court cases, and public and press opinion about the acceptable limits of advocates’ tactics and oratory. This book also explores the extent to which juries are used in trials and the social origins of those serving on them. It goes on to examine the formal teaching of advocacy which was only introduced comparatively recently, arguing that this, and new technology, will likely exert a strong influence on future forensic oratory. Speaking in Court provides a readable history of advocacy and the many factors that have shaped it, and takes a far wider view of the history of advocacy than many titles, analysing the 20th Century developments which are often overlooked. This book will be of interest to general readers, law practitioners interested in how advocacy has developed in courts of yesteryear, teachers of advocacy who want to locate there subject in history and impart this to their students, and to law students curious about the origins of what they are learning.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
Author: Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809388431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
This new edition of Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, answers the need for a complete, reliable text. The book seeks to generate a renewed interest in Blair by provoking new inquiries into the tradition of belletristic rhetoric and by serving as both aid and incentive to others who may join in the project of improving understanding of this landmark rhetorical scholarship. This edition contains forty-seven lectures and remains faithful to the text of the 1785 London edition. The editors contextualize Hugh Blair’s motivations and thinking by providing in their introduction an extended account of Blair’s life and era. The bibliography of works by and about Blair is an invaluable aid, surpassing previous research on Blair. Although the extent of its influence cannot be measured fully, Blair’s Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres was undoubtedly a primary vehicle for introducing many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholars to classical rhetoric and French belletristic rhetoric—its success due in part to the ease with which the lectures combine neoclassical and Enlightenment thought, accommodating emerging social concerns. Ferreira-Buckley and Halloran’s extensive treatment revives the tradition of belletristic rhetoric, improving the understanding of Blair’s place in the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century discourse, while finding him relevant in the twenty-first century.
Francis Jeffrey
Author: Philip FlynnPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874131239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In the first three decades of the nineteenth century. Francis Jeffrey played a leading role in British letters. The Man was, inpart, his milieu. A study of the critic must be, in part, a study of his critical inheritance. This book, then, is an attempt to know him better--to find in his eclectic reviews a coherent criticism of life.
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettres
Author: Hugh BlairWitcraft
Author: Jonathan RéePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300248806
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that “philosophy should be written like poetry.” But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor? Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures—puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists—who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.
Catalogue of the Books in General Literature in the Library of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow
Author: Faculty of Procurators in GlasgowPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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