10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELLETRISM»
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belletrism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
belletrism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its ...
Belletrism. One of the attendees at Smith's lectures was the young Hugh Blair
who was later appointed Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the
University of Edinburgh and who served in that capacity for twenty-one years.6 ...
2
Confessions of the Critics: North American Critics' ...
Also on the panel was Mike Hill, author of a paper entitled “What's New about the
New Belletrism?” The session was chaired and arranged by Jeff Williams. I am
grateful to Denise, Mike, and Jeff for a lively exchange on the subject.
3
Critics at Work: Interviews, 1993-2003
I would agree that theory has permeated our discourse, but, on the other hand, I
see a turn to a more belletristic rationale — what I've called "the new belletrism."
That isn't quite as positive or celebratory as seeing a turn to the public intellectual
...
4
Rhetoric and the Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, and ...
Dwight and Trumbull were more tolerant, even approved of, genteel culture, but
their appre- ciation for belletrism did not necessarily lead to a less strati¤ed
society. Connecticut still had very rigid social classes, and it was still led by a ...
Mark Garrett Longaker, 2007
5
Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo
However, again, belletrism must be contextu- alized, for in France, the
withdrawals to the private salon were often neither private nor nonpolitical (
although many were quietist). The philosophes and other salon frequenters were
mixed in class, ...
6
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
The Scottish rhetoricians, however, writing under the influence of French
belletrism, refocused attention on the ways in which works in a variety of genres
are read or received. Thus, rhetorical analysis shifted its concern from the
production of ...
7
A Companion to Colonial America
Only in the years after the Revolution, as its “overdetermined unity” with religion
and surface affinity with polite belletrism broke down, was the new print-based
public sphere challenged by alternate cultural imperatives (1990, p. 58). The new
...
8
Moral Corruption and Philosophic Education in Plato's ...
The passage clearly indicates that its context is sophistic rhetoric, so one may
fairly take its point to be that, since the sophists teach literary polish as a
substitute for morality, it is fair to consider belletrism a predictor of amorality.136
The ...
Geoffrey M. Batchelder, 2009
9
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education: ...
See Southern Baptist Conven- tion (SBC) Battistella, Edwin, 191 Beauties ofBlair
(Blair), 63, 67–70, 73, 73n15, 74n19, 75n43 Beecher, Catharine, 81 Beecher,
Henry Ward, 158 Belletristic rhetoric: Blair on, 6, 62, 63, 66, 67; British belletrism,
...
David Gold, Catherine L. Hobbs, 2013
10
Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric
At the turn of the century, belletrism informed public speaking theories; but during
1 ') 1 5-1 930, belletrism was replaced by psychology (Arnold, 1 959, 3- 4; Gray,
1954, 433-40; Carrino, 1959). As early as 1920, social analysis of speaking was
...
Alan G. Gross, Arthur E. Walzer, 2008
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELLETRISM»
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belletrism is used in the context of the following news items.
Let the Sonnets Be Unbroken
... to describe and denote the method of interpretation they advocated to replace the philological criticism and belletrism then dominating the study of literature. «Harvard Magazine, Dec 14»
Blu-ray Review
Clément inadvertently proves, however, that the Machiavellian side of Ripley's personality makes for better belletrism than cinema. While the ... «slantmagazine, Dec 12»
Why old-world critics still count
... valuable contribution that today's professional academics can provide is to weld a more rigorous scholarly approach to the old belletrism. «The Australian, Aug 10»
Bernardo Ortiz Campo Criticism and Experience
Art writing, especially in the context of the last few decades, with its determination to erase all vestiges of belletrism, has renounced its experimental condition, ... «E-Flux, Feb 10»
Three Pages a Day
The great weakness of belletrism—and something Updike was criticized for throughout his career—is that it tends to be apolitical, detached, ... «New York Magazine, Feb 09»
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Baker's style is notoriously ornate— Victorian-scented belletrism, with Nabokovian phrase-density—but in Human Smoke it's pointedly ... «New York Magazine, Mar 08»
