Sermons on sermonizing: the pulpit rhetoric of Swift and Sterne. (Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne)

From: Philological Quarterly | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Fanning, Christopher | Copyright information

The difference in preaching styles between Jonathan Swift and Laurence Sterne indicates their differing views of the rhetorical situation of sermonizing. While Swift emphasizes rationalism despite the presence of self-consciousness, Sterne uses self-consciousness to communicate moral truth. Swift's is a reasoning approach; Sterne's is a social approach.

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