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Examines the quest for God, both public and private, begun by Pascal in the 17th century and continued by Simone Weil in the 20th century, looking at audience, intention, and rhetoric in their writings and their uses of language. Details their uses of metaphor, key words and phases, repetition, words with related meanings, and ambiguity, and analyzes sentence structures, within the context of the syntactical and rhetorical structures of particular texts. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Language Notes
Text: English, French

The publisher, Peter Lang Publishing
Pascal began in the seventeenth century a quest that Simone Weil continued in the twentieth: searching and waiting (as Simone Weil put it) for God. For each of them it was both a personal and a public quest. In reaching into their own experience, they felt the need to reach out to that of others. This book is about that quest, both private and public, and the concerns which ensued from it: audience (who are they writing for?), intention (why are they writing?), and rhetoric (how are they writing what they have to say?).

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Pascal began in the seventeenth century a quest that Simone Weil continued in the twentieth : searching and "waiting" (as Simone Weil put it) for God. For each of them it was a personal and a public quest. In reaching into their own experience, they felt the need to reach out to that of others. This book is about that quest, both private and public, and the concerns which ensued from it : audience (who are they writing for?), intention (why are they writing?), and rhetoric (how are they writing what they have to say?).

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