Vain Rhetoric

Name: Vain Rhetoric
Brand: Continnuum-3PL
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By Salyer, Gary D.

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The Book of Ecclesiastes, like many ancient and modern first-person discourses, generates ambivalent responses in its readers. The book's rhetorical strategy produces both acceptance of, and suspicion towards, the major positions argued by the author. 'Vain rhetoric' aptly describes the persuasive and dissuasive properties of the narrator's peculiar characterization. It also describes how the Book of Ecclesiates, with its abundant use of rhetorical questions, constant gapping techniques, and other strategies from the arsenal of ambiguity, is a stunning testimony to the power of the various strategies of indirection to communicate to the reader something of his or her own rhetorical liabilities and limitations, as well as those of the religious community in general.

Product details

Edition:

1

Number of Pages:

450

Release Date:

2001-08-01

Publication Date:

2001-06-01

Publisher:

Continnuum-3PL

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

03879141611841271810

ISBN13:

9781841271811

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

762 g

Height:

145 cm

Width:

222 cm

Thickness:

30 cm

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