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A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Joseph Priestley
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreSemantics
ISBN/Barcode 9781108066075
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 24 October 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

While a tutor at Warrington Academy, the polymath Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) established himself as a leading grammarian and educational theorist, producing the influential Rudiments of English Grammar (1761) and A Course of Lectures on the Theory of Language and Universal Grammar (1762), both of which are reissued in this series. In 1762 he also delivered these lectures on rhetorical theory, arguing that the purpose of rhetoric is moral formation. Priestley was deeply influenced by associationism, a theory of mind developed by John Locke and David Hartley. This claims that all complex ideas develop from simple ones, which arise purely from sensory impressions. The orator's role, then, is to form the right associations between impressions and ideas in a listener's mind. Informed by this theory, these thirty-five lectures re-evaluate the classical rhetorical components of topic, method and style. First published in 1777, the work is reissued here in its 1781 Dublin printing.