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Pretexts of Authority: The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface
Pretexts of Authority The Rhetoric of Authorship in the Renaissance Preface
Author: Kevin Dunn
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.
ISBN-13: 9780804722841
ISBN-10: 0804722846
Publication Date: 5/1/1994
Pages: 216
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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