Pretexts of authority : the rhetoric of authorship in the Renaissance preface
Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form--the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship.
Print Book, English, 1994
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1994
XII, 198 p. 23 cm
9780804722841, 0804722846
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