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Rhetorical investigations : studies in ordinary language criticism
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Rhetorical investigations : studies in ordinary language criticism

Walter Jost

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bk. I. Rhetoric: an advanced primer ; 1. Dialectic as dialogue: the order of the ordinary ; 2. Rhetorical invention: notes toward an American low modernism ; 3. Grammatical judgment: it all depends on what you mean by "home" ; 4. Logical proof: perspicuous representations
bk. II. Four beginnings for a book on Robert Frost ; 5. Lessons in the conversation that we are: The "death of the hired man" (invention) ; 6. Naming being in "West-running brook" (judgment as acknowledgment) ; 7. Giving evidence and making evident: civility and madness in "Snow" (proof) ; 8. Ordinary language brought to grief: "Home burial".

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