THE RHETORIC OF PASCAL. A Study of His Art of Persuasion in the Provinciales and the Pensees.
Leicester, UK: Leicester University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Near fine condition / Very good+ condition (DJ). Item #006914
342 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Hardcover cloth binding in almost new condition. Unclipped dustjacket with minor rubbing to the extremities, and a few small creases; protected in archival mylar. Front endpaper slightly browned from newspaper clipping. The chapters are: Part one. The "Provinciales": I. Pascal pamphleteer; II. The epistolary art of a polemist; III. The art of dialogue; IV. The later "Provinciales" logic, emotion and Rhetoric; Part two. The "Pensees": I. Precursors and antecedents; II. The plan of the Apology; III. Themes and arguments; IV. The style of the "Pensees". The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
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