Re: Suggestions needed

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From: DABRENT
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1992 23:19

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I would agree that Burke provides the broadest system of the
threementioned.  Weaver is an interested rhetorician but his highly
foundationalist Platonism makes him hard to swallow.  (Of course that's
exactly what makes him interesting, but '90's rhetoric is highly
antifound- ationalist.

Richards is still interesting for his ideas on ambiguity and semantics,
but modern rhetoric isn't as interested in semantics as it used to be.
My rhetoric mentor (wrongly I think) refused to call Richards a
rhetorician and gave me trouble for doing so on a paper.  This indicates
how peripheral to modern rhetoric he has become.  (I hope Ann Bethoff
doesn't know where I live.)

Doug Brent, U.  of Calgary (DABrent at UNCAMULT)

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