Common Ground and Argument by Indirection in Two Seventeenth-Century Sermons

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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet's sermon to Louis XIV on the "Devoirs des rois" and John Donne's sermon to Queen Anne at Denmark House are both texts that offer indirect critiques of their royal audiences--critiques which, if stated more bluntly, might be politically dangerous to the respective speakers. What makes such oblique criticism "safe" and what ultimately makes it understood? The answer lies in the rhetor's ability to build common ground with the audience.

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A Rhetoric of Irony.Wayne C. Booth - 1975 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 8 (2):123-129.

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