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Title: PRETEXTS OF AUTHORITY
THE RHETORIC OF AUTHORSHIP IN THE RENAISSANCE PREFACE
By: Kevin Dunn
Format: Hardback

List price: £58.00


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ISBN 10: 0804722846
ISBN 13: 9780804722841
Publisher: STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 May, 1994
Pages: 216
Description: Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form--the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship.
Synopsis: Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form-the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship.
Publication: US
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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