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Peer reviewedAbbott, Don – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1978
Examines eighteenth century Spain and the rhetorical thought of the Spanish "Illustracion," revealing the evolution of a modern theory of rhetoric which elevated expression at the expense of investigation and culminated in a literary, aesthetic, and belletristic conception of communication. (JMF)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Eighteenth Century Literature, Historical Criticism, Neoclassicism
