A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

by Editor: Walter Jost (University of Virginia ; ); Editor: Wendy Olmsted (University of Chicago)

• ISBN13: 9780470999844
• ISBN10: 0470999845
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Acknowledgments.

Rhetoric in Its Place and Time

Introduction: Contingency and Probability

The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens

Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian

A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1

Continental Poetics

ÆHis tail at commandmentÆ: George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric

Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton

Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period

The Philosophy of Rhetoric in CampbellÆs Philosophy of Rhetoric

The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke

RhetoricÆs Favorite Places

Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation

Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers

Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo

Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion

Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: PlatoÆs Rhetoric of Education in the Republic

Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism

Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments

Commonplaces: Sensus Communis

Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment

Rhetoric and Its Critics

Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost

Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstractionùin General

Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith WhartonÆs "Roman Fever": Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise

ÆMind the GapÆ: WGSebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest

Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late 20th Century

All in Good Time û and Timing

AristotleÆs Rhetoric and BakhtinÆs Discourse Theory

Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology

Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir

Rhetoric in the Law

Rhetorical Hermeneutics Once Again: or, Phronesis Unwrapped

Rhetoric and Poetry: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed

My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession

Index

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