The rhetoric of Pascal : a study of Pascal's 'Art of Persuasion' with particular reference to the Provinciales and the Pensees
Pascal's essays De l'esprit geometrique and De l'art de persuader, together with fragments found amongst his notes for an Apology, constitute his literary theory or Rhetoric. This Rhetoric is basically psychological. Pascal recognises that in order to persuade his reader he must sway...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1962
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