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Sweet reason : rhetoric and the discourses of modernity

This volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.
Print Book, English, 1996
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996
xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
9780226893365, 9780226893372, 0226893367, 0226893375
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Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Toward a Rhetoric of Intersubjectivity: Language and Narration Ch. 2: Reading Science Rhetorically Ch. 3: Teaching Technical Writing Ch. 4: Action and Rhetoric Ch. 5: Reason and Desire in Public Discourse: Reading the MOVE Report Ch. 6: Giving an Ordered History: Narrative in the Discourse of the Classroom Ch. 7: Montaigne and the Discourses of Modernity Works Cited Index