A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

by Jost, Walter; Olmsted, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9781405149570
• ISBN10: 1405149574
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• 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.

Author Biography

Walter Jost teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Wendy Olmsted teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	x
Introduction	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
PART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time	1	(168)
Introduction: Contingency and Probability	5	(17)
Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar
The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens	22	(16)
David Cohen
Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian	38	(20)
B. A. Krostenko
A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1	58	(22)
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Continental Poetics	80	(16)
Arthur F. Kinney
``His tail at commandment'': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric	96	(16)
Wayne A. Rebhorn
Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton	112	(16)
Thomas O. Sloane
Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period	128	(13)
Victoria Kahn
The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric	141	(11)
Joel C. Weinsheimer
The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke	152	(17)
Herbert W. Simons
PART II Rhetoric's Favorite Places	169	(140)
Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince	173	(17)
Wendy Olmsted
Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers	190	(16)
David J. Smigelskis
Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo	206	(15)
Eugene Garver
Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion	221	(17)
James L. Kasteley
Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato's Rhetoric of Education in the Republic	238	(10)
Kathy Eden
Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism	248	(18)
Gary Saul Morson
Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments	266	(12)
Thomas Conley
Commonplaces: Sensus Communis	278	(16)
John D. Schaeffer
Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics	294	(15)
Anthony J. Cascardi
PART III Rhetoric and Its Critics	309	(80)
Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost	311	(14)
Walter Jost
Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction -- in General	325	(15)
Peter J. Rabinowitz
Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise	340	(15)
James Phelan
``Mind the Gap'': W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest	355	(17)
Adam Zachary Newton
Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century	372	(17)
James Crosswhite
PART IV All in Good Time -- and Timing	389	(116)
Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory	393	(16)
Don Bialostosky
Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology	409	(16)
Stephen H. Webb
Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir	425	(17)
Nancy S. Struever
Rhetoric in the Law	442	(15)
Robert P. Burns
Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronesis	457	(16)
Steven Mailloux
Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed	473	(21)
Charles Altieri
My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession	494	(11)
Wayne C. Booth
Index	505