Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ376057
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Publication Date: 1986
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Juan Luis Vives: Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Rhetoric.
Abbott, Don Paul
Central States Speech Journal, v37 n4 p193-203 Win 1986
Argues that Juan Luis Vives' efforts to rehabilitate the discipline of discourse may well have been the most original of the sixteenth century, and that his discussion of elecutio (the essence of rhetoric) is considerably more distinguished than that of the better known Peter Ramus. (RS)
Descriptors: Humanism, Intellectual History, Renaissance Literature, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Scholarship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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