New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric

by Pernot, Laurent

• ISBN13: 9789004175020
• ISBN10: 9004175024
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends in this new area of research and offers a great richness of insights. The contributors are from fourteen different countries in Europe, America and Asia ; the majority of the papers are in English and French, some others in German, Italian, and Spanish. The texts and subjects covered include the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Corean civilization, and the contemporary world. Word, speech, language and institutions are addressed from several points of view. One major topic, among many others, is Rhetoric and Religion.

Author Biography

Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg, corresponding member of the Institut de France, and Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the history of rhetoric, including Rhetoric in Antiquity (The Catholic University of America Press, 2005).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Rhetoric In History
Theoretical Issues
L'histoire de la rhétorique dans I'Europe moderne	p. 3
Rhétoriques particulaires et rhétoriques ondulatoires	p. 17
Aspects rhétoriques du discours historique	p. 31
La rhétorique du simulacrum: analogies historiques	p. 43
La traducción como ejercicio retórico y gramatical	p. 53
Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Power of Logos in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen	p. 75
Painting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and Isocrates on Logography	p. 91
Transparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics	p. 109
Le discours du tribun Licinius Macer à la plèbe (Salluste, Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin)	p. 119
Cicero and the Sophists	p. 137
Cicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in paradigma dell'eloquenza romana	p. 153
Deklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr	p. 167
Incest in Roman Declamation	p. 197
L'harmonie du savoir: du modèle rhétorique au modèle musical	p. 215
Modern and Contemporary Times
The History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors	p. 251
La rhétorique militaire en Russie	p. 261
Henri III rhéteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois	p. 269
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre	p. 287
The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	p. 303
The Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto	p. 311
Rhetoric And Religion
The Problematic of Religious Discourse
The Rhetoric of Religion	p. 327
Caduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica	p. 347
La parole, la foi et la beauté : la Grèce, Rome et le christianisme médiéval	p. 361
Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford	p. 375
On Chinese Religious Rhetoric	p. 385
The Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical Topoi and the Religious Imperative	p. 401
Speaking of the Gods, Speaking to the Gods
Les dieux chez les orateurs attiques	p. 417
Gottesurteil - Beweismittel - Stilfigur. Funktion und Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik	p. 427
Le "discours sacre" (hieros logos): une forme de rhétorique religieuse dans I'Antiquité grecque	p. 445
L'inffuence de la légende bouddhique sur le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat: un cas de persuasion rhétorique et religieuse	p. 467
How to Read the Bible Rhetorically?
Rhétorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumrânienne	p. 485
Pourquoi un Traité de rhétorique biblique?	p. 497
The Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11, 2-16 and the Problem of the Veil	p. 507
Art oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job	p. 523
Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England	p. 537
Theory and Practice of Preaching
La importancia de la pronuntiatio en la Retórica eclesiástica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada	p. 551
Bunyan's Progress and Glanvill's Stand: Narration and Stasis in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse	p. 565
"No Proper Subject:" Religion and Eloquence in Modern Britain	p. 575
Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings Predigtlehre	p. 585
Religion and Political Discourse
"Theology of Liberation" and Its Tradition in Poland: the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981-1989	p. 599
La question des rapports entre l'Église et l'État dans la rhétorique parlementaire en Bulgarie	p. 611
Notes on Contributors	p. 625
Indices
Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present)	p. 641
Index of Scholars and Critics	p. 646
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