The History and Theory of Rhetoric

by Herrick, James

• ISBN13: 9780205566730
• ISBN10: 0205566731
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-06
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers an accessible discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American and European theorists.The origins and history of rhetoric, Plato, Aristotle, Roman society and rhetoric, rhetoric in Christian Europe, rhetoric in the Renaissance, Enlightenment rhetorics, and contemporary rhetoric issues.Rhetorical theory and history.

Table of Contents

An Overview of Rhetoric

Rhetoric and Persuasion

Defining Rhetoric

Rhetorical Discourse

Social Functions of the Art of Rhetoric

The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric

The Rise of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece

The Sophists

Two Influential Sophists

Aspasia's Role in Athenian Rhetoric

Plato vs. the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial

Plato'sGorgias: Rhetoric on Trial

Rhetoric in Plato'sPhaedrus: A True Art?

Aristotle on Rhetoric

Aristotle's Definitions of Rhetoric

Three Rhetorical Settings

The Artistic Proofs

The Topoi or Lines of Argument

Aristotle on Style

Rhetoric at Rome

Roman Society and the Place of Rhetoric

The Rhetorical Theory of Cicero

Quintilian

Longinus: On the Sublime

Rhetoric in the Later Roman Empire

Rhetoric in Christian Europe

Rhetoric, Tension, and Fragmentation

Rhetoric and the Medieval Curriculum

Rhetoric in the Early Middle Ages: Augustine, Capella, and Boethius

St. Augustine

Martianus Capella

Boethius

Three Rhetorical Arts in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

The Art of Preaching

The Art of Letter Writing

The Art of Poetry

Rhetoric in the Renaissance

Features of Renaissance Rhetoric

Lorenzo Valla: Retrieving the Rhetorical Tradition

Women and Renaissance Rhetoric

Italian Humanism: A Catalyst for Rhetoric's Expansion

Rhetoric as Personal and Political Influence

Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Study of Classical Texts

Petrarch and the Origins of Italian Humanism

Pico della Mirandola and the Magic of Language

Juan Luis Vives

Rhetoric and theVita Activa

Madame de Scudery

The Turn toward Dialectic: Rhetoric and Its Critics

Renaissance Rhetorics in Britain

Enlightenment Rhetorics

Vico on Rhetoric and Human Thought

British Rhetorics in the Eighteenth Century

The Elocutionary Movement

The Scottish School

Richard Whately's Classical Rhetoric

Contemporary Rhetoric I: Argument, Audiences, and Advocacy

Argumentation and Rational Discourse

Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: A New Rhetoric

Stephen Toulmin and the Uses of Argument

Argumentation and Scientific Inquiry

Deirdre McCloskey and the Rhetoric of Economics

Clifford Geertz and Rhetoric in Anthropology

Michael Billig and the Rhetoric of Social Psychology

John Campbell on the Rhetoric of Charles Darwin

Criticisms of the Rhetoric of Science

Contemporary Rhetoric II: As Equipment for Living

Rhetoric in Its Social Context: The Dramatic and Situational Views

Kenneth Burke and Rhetoric as Symbolic Action

Lloyd Bitzer and Rhetoric as Situational

Rhetoric as Narration

Mikhail Bakhtin and the Polyphonic Novel

Wayne Booth and the Rhetoric of Fiction

Jurgen Habermas and the Conditions of Rational Discourse

Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, and Alternatives

Postmodernism

Michael Foucault: Discourse, Knowledge, and Power

Jacques Derrida: Texts, Meanings, and Deconstruction

Richard Weaver: Rhetoric and the Preservation of Culture

Feminism and Rhetoric: Critique and Reform in Rhetoric

George Kennedy and Comparative Rhetoric

All chapters conclude with Conclusion

Questions for Review

Questions for Discussio and Terms

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