In Defence of Rhetoric by Brian Vickers (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric)
Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man.