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Rhetoric in the Modern Era Series Statement
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SUNY SERIES, RHETORIC IN THE MODERN ERA Arthur E. Walzer and Edward Schiappa, Editors The goal of the series “Rhetoric in the Modern Era” is to prompt and sponsor book-length treatments of important rhetorical theorists and of philosophers and literary theorists who make substantial contributions to our understanding of language and rhetoric. In some cases, a book in this series is the first book-length treatment of the figure; in others, a book in the series is the first to examine a philosopher or theorist from the perspective of rhetorical theory. The intended audience for books in the series are nonspecialists—graduate students coming to the study of a theorist for the first time and professors broadly interested in the rhetorical tradition. The series books are comprehensive introductions—comprehensive in the sense that they provide brief biographies, descriptions of the intellectual milieu, and discussions of the major scholarship on the figure as context for a detailed examination of the figure’s contribution to rhetorical theory or history. We envision these as the first books on their subject, not the last. While books in the series may exceed these modest aims, their focus is on achieving them. A complete list of the books in the series can be found at the end of this volume. RHETORIC IN THE MODERN ER A ...