{"product_id":"rhetoric-9780198159841","title":"Rhetoric","description":"\u003cp\u003eRhetoric is the art of persuasion, whether spoken or written. In the first chapter of Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature, Michael Hawcroft sets out its principles comprehensively and lucidly, providing an easily-consulted outline of key terms and a wide range of illustrative examples. Subsequent chapters explore rhetoric at work in different genres, via close reading of texts which range from the drama of Molière, Racine, and Beckett; Montaigne, Sévigné, and Gide on the self; the prose fiction of Laclos, Zola, and Sarraute; poetry by D'Aubigné, Baudelaire, and Césaire; and the oratory of de Gaulle and Yourcenar. Rhetorical analysis uncovers subtleties and complexities in texts which emerge as exciting dramas of communication. This is at once a handbook of rhetoric and a guide to its application to French texts from the sixteenth century to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Hawcroft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575217520701,"sku":"9780198159841","price":500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780198159841.jpg?v=1788559839","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/rhetoric-9780198159841","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}