Product Description: "Illusion/allusion" is perhaps the perfect epithet for the post-minimal age, the prescribed antidote to late modernism's arid legacy of purity and clarity. This book presents the work of 21 artists who take moral positions at all points along a line between the poles of illusion and allusion: those works which create private mythologies or abstract concepts to fabricate their own illusions; or works which make reference to tangible objects or facets of human experience -- the allusion, whether to the figure or some objective presence in the material world...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language activity...read more

Product Description: Designed to encourage the study of the medieval art of discourse, this bibliography has served for fifteen years an as invaluable guide to modern works on the theory of communication in Europe from the time of Saint Augustine to the Renaissance...read more

Product Description: A collection of academic studies by various authors about the types and styles of writing in Renaissance-era Europe, including essays such as "Problems and Trends in the History of German Rhetoric to 1500" by Helmut Schanze and "Erasmus and the Art of Letter-Writing" by Judith Rice Henderson...read more

Product Description: Explores rhetorical theory from the middle ages to the renaissance.

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Product Description: One of the major figures in this book, the Roman educator Quintilian, points out that writing -- unlike speaking -- must always be learned from a teacher since it cannot be learned by natural imitation as oral language is. He uses the example of a two-year-old who can understand and speak even though the child is years away from being able to be taught even the rudiments of the written alphabet...read more

Product Description: This volume provides a systematic historical survey of the methods and purposes of writing instruction in Western culture. The book traces the development of writing curricula from the earliest stages in ancient Greece to the standardization processes of the Roman period which dominated Western schools up to the 18th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: One of the major figures in this book, the Roman educator Quintilian, points out that writing -- unlike speaking -- must always be learned from a teacher since it cannot be learned by natural imitation as oral language is. He uses the example of a two-year-old who can understand and speak even though the child is years away from being able to be taught even the rudiments of the written alphabet...read more