Letter writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

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Letter writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present

Author	: Carol Poster
File Size	: 49,6 Mb
Publisher	: Univ of South Carolina Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 19 May 2024
ISBN	: 1570036519
Pages	: 372 pages

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Letter writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present by Carol Poster Book PDF Summary

Once nearly as ubiquitous as dictionaries and cookbooks are today, letter-writing manuals and their predecessors served to instruct individuals not only on the art of letter composition but also, in effect, on personal conduct. Poster and Mitchell contend that the study of letter-writing theory, which bridges rhetorical theory and grammatical studies, represents an emerging discipline in need of definition. In this volume, they gather the contributions of eleven experts to sketch the contours of epistolary theory and collect the historic and bibliographic materials - from Isocrates to email - that form the basis for its study.

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