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ERIC Number: EJ509869
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0277-3945
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Rhetoric and the Essay.
Mack, Peter
Rhetoric Society Quarterly, v23 n2 p41-49 Spr 1993
Discusses how a genre like the essay could have originated in opposition to rhetoric and then nevertheless be taken over by it. Concentrates on four moments in the history of the essay: (1) its birth; (2) the English essay of the seventeenth century; (3) the classical form of "The Tatler" and "The Spectator"; and (4) the role of the essay in education. (TB)
Descriptors: Educational History, Eighteenth Century Literature, Essays, French Literature, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Seventeenth Century Literature, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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