Figures of Speech Author:Arthur Quinn This is a book which anyone interested in language, rhetoric, composition, or critical theory will wish to own-and plunder, for ideas, insights, understanding, and jokes. A brilliant job." - Hayden White, Professor of the history of conciousness at the Univ of Ca, Santa Cruz & aurther of Metahistory & Topics of Discourse. — Quinn has managed to d... more »o what I would have thought impossible: turned a dicussion of dozens of rhetorical figures - hyperbaton, nendiadys, isolocon into a book that is a delight to read - and living refutation of most current rules of style. Offering examples that range fromthe Bible thru Shakespeare & James Joyce to Joe Jacobs, he quietly and wittily demonstrates that, but why should I by giving away his show, commit hysteron-protorn?? - Wayne Booth, George M. Pullman Professor of english at the Univ of Chicago & the aurtor of the Rhetorc of Ficton« less