Poetic and Francis Bacon's Ambivalence toward Language [electronic resource] / Paula Tompkins Pribble.

Just as rhetoric is a way of knowing, so is poetic, both of which, for Francis Bacon, produce false knowledge. But Bacon is not entirely negative. When the poetic elements of language are used in strategic and public communication, like the scholarly communication Bacon attempts to reform, poetic an...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Pribble, Paula Tompkins
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986.
Subjects:	Communication (Thought Transfer) Epistemology. Figurative Language. Intellectual Experience. Language Attitudes. Logic. Rhetoric.