A Spectrum of Rhetoric
- ISBN-10
- 0316331325
- ISBN-13
- 9780316331326
- Category
- College readers
- Pages
- 474
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Little Brown
- Authors
- Dorothy Margaret Guinn, Daniel Marder
Description
No , said Marshall , your mentors inhabit a backwater . The fields of force no longer emanate from Oxford . A PhD ; and it had better be from Yale , where his friend Cleanth Brooks had just been installed as doyen of the New Criticism .
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