The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present

by BIZZELL (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780312003487
• ISBN10: 031200348X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-02-01
• Publisher: Bedford/st Martins

Summary

"The Rhetorical Tradition" -- the first comprehensive anthology of primary texts covering the history of rhetoric -- examines rhetorical theory from classical antiquity through the modern period. Extensive editorial material makes it an essential text for the beginning student as well as the professional scholar.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
General Introduction	1	(1)
The Origins of Rhetoric	1	(2)
Classical Rhetoric	3	(5)
Medieval Rhetoric	8	(1)
The Renaissance	9	(1)
The Enlightenment	10	(3)
The Twentieth Century	13	(4)
Part One CLASSICAL RHETORIC	17	(348)
Introduction	19	(19)
The Sophistic Movement	22	(2)
Isocrates and Rhetoric Education for Men---And Women?	24	(3)
Plato: Good and Bad Rhetoric	27	(2)
Aristotle: Systematic Rhetoric	29	(1)
The Rise of Rome and the Rhetoric of Cicero	30	(3)
Imperial Rome and the Rhetoric of Quintilian	33	(5)
Gorgias	38	(5)
Encomium of Helen	40	(3)
Isocrates	43	(12)
Against the Sophists	46	(4)
From Antidosis	50	(5)
Plato	55	(89)
Gorgias	61	(52)
Phaedrus	113	(31)
Aristotle	144	(51)
From Rhetoric	151	(44)
Cicero	195	(56)
From Of Oratory	200	(51)
Anonymous	251	(42)
Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV	252	(41)
Quintilian	293	(72)
From Institutes of Oratory	297	(68)
Part Two MEDIEVAL RHETORIC	365	(96)
Introduction	367	(14)
Christian Treatments of Rhetoric to Augustine	367	(3)
Rhetoric Under Siege in Europe to 1000 C.E.	370	(3)
Later Medieval Learning and the Rise of the University	373	(4)
Arts of Letter Writing and Preaching	377	(4)
Augustine	381	(42)
On Christian Doctrine, Book IV	386	(37)
Boethius	423	(6)
An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric	425	(4)
Anonymous	429	(10)
From The Principles of Letter Writing	431	(8)
Robert of Basevorn	439	(22)
From The Form of Preaching	441	(20)
Part Three RENAISSANCE RHETORIC	461	(174)
Introduction	463	(20)
Rhetoric and Italian Humanism	464	(6)
Humanism in Northern Europe: Agricola, Erasmus, and Ramus	470	(3)
Humanism and Rhetoric in England: Ramus versus Cicero	473	(10)
Christine de Pisan and Laura Cereta	483	(16)
Christine de Pisan, From The Treasure of the City of Ladies	488	(5)
Laura Cereta, Letter to Augustinus Aemilius, Curse against the Ornamentation of Women	493	(2)
Laura Cereta, Letter to Bibulus Sempronius, Defense of the Liperal Instruction of Women	495	(4)
Desiderius Erasmus	499	(58)
From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style	502	(55)
Peter Ramus	557	(27)
From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian	563	(21)
Thomas Wilson	584	(38)
From The Arte of Rhetorique	587	(35)
Francis Bacon	622	(13)
From The Advancement of Learning	625	(6)
From Novum Organum	631	(4)
Part Four ENLIGHTENMENT RHETORIC	635	(262)
Introduction	637	(33)
Rhetoric in the Enlightenment: An Overview	637	(2)
Seventeenth-Century Rhetoric	639	(6)
Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric	645	(15)
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric	660	(10)
Margaret Fell and Sarah Grimke	670	(27)
Margaret Fell, Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures	677	(8)
Sarah Grimke, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, Letters III, IV, and XIV	685	(12)
John Locke	697	(14)
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	699	(12)
Giambattista Vico	711	(17)
From On the Study Methods of Our Time	714	(14)
Thomas Sheridan	728	(10)
A Course of Lectures on Elocution, Lecture VI	730	(8)
Gilbert Austin	738	(8)
From Chironomia	739	(7)
George Campbell	746	(50)
From The Philosophy of Rhetoric	749	(47)
Hugh Blair	796	(32)
From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	798	(30)
Richard Whately	828	(31)
From Elements of Rhetoric	831	(28)
The Rhetoric of Composition:	859	(26)
Henry N. Day
Alexander Bain
David J. Hill
Adams Sherman Hill
From The Art of Discourse	864	(10)
Henry N. Day
From English Composition and Rhetoric	874	(3)
Alexander Bain
From The Science of Rhetoric	877	(4)
David J. Hill
From The Principles of Rhetoric	881	(4)
Adams Sherman Hill
Friedrich Nietzsche	885	(12)
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense	888	(9)
Part Five TWENTIETH-CENTURY RHETORIC	897	(371)
Introduction	899	(25)
Twentieth-Century Rhetoric: An Overview	899	(4)
Composition and Speech Communication	903	(4)
Philosophy of Language in the Early Twentieth Century	907	(2)
Between the Wars: Meaning in Philosophy and Literature	909	(3)
1945--1965: Literature, Logic, and Ethics	912	(3)
Since 1965: Discourse, Knowledge, and Ideology	915	(9)
Mikhail Bakhtin	924	(40)
From Marxism and the Philosophy of Language	928	(16)
From The Problem of Speech Genres	944	(20)
A. Richards	964	(25)
From The Meaning of Meaning	967	(8)
A. Richards
C. K. Ogden
From The Philosophy of Rhetoric	975	(14)
A. Richards
Kenneth Burke	989	(53)
From A Grammar of Motives	992	(26)
From A Rhetoric of Motives	1018	(16)
From Language as Symbolic Action	1034	(8)
Richard Weaver	1042	(24)
Language Is Sermonic	1044	(10)
The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric	1054	(12)
Chaim Perelman	1066	(38)
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, From The New Rhetoric	1068	(4)
Chaim Perelman, From The Realm of Rhetoric	1072	(5)
Chaim Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning	1077	(27)
Stephen Toulmin	1104	(22)
From The Uses of Argument	1106	(17)
From Logic and the Criticism of Arguments	1123	(3)
Michel Foucault	1126	(39)
From The Archaeology of Knowledge	1130	(24)
From The Order of Discourse	1154	(11)
Jacques Derrida	1165	(20)
Signature Event Context	1168	(17)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	1185	(39)
The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifying(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning	1193	(31)
Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva	1224	(44)
The Laugh of the Medusa	1232	(13)
Helene Cixous
A Woman Mistress	1245	(6)
Helene Cixous
Catherine Clement
Women's Time	1251	(17)
Julia Kristeva
Index	1268