Classical Rhetoric & Its Christian & Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

by Kennedy, George Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780807824672
• ISBN10: 0807824674
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

A revised and updated edition of the popular and widely used guide to the classical tradition of rhetoric from its development in ancient Greece and Rome to the 20th-century.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition	ix
CHAPTER 1. TRADITIONAL AND CONCEPTUAL RHETORIC	1	(19)
Rhetoric in the Homeric Poems	5	(7)
The Literate Revolution	12	(1)
Technical, Sophistic, and Philosophical Rhetoric	13	(2)
Women in Classical Rhetoric	15	(5)
CHAPTER 2. TECHNICAL RHETORIC	20	(9)
Progymnasmata	26	(3)
CHAPTER 3. SOPHISTIC RHETORIC	29	(24)
The Tetralogies Attributed to Antiphon	30	(4)
Gorgias	34	(2)
Sophistry as Play	36	(2)
Isocrates	38	(6)
Declamation	44	(3)
The Second Sophistic	47	(3)
Sophists and Politics	50	(3)
CHAPTER 4. PHILOSOPHICAL RHETORIC	53	(45)
Plato's Apology of Socrates	55	(3)
Plato's Gorgias	58	(2)
Plato's Phaedrus	66	(8)
Aristotle	74	(19)
The Philosophical Tradition after Aristotle	93	(2)
Dialectic and Rhetoric in Antiquity	95	(3)
CHAPTER 5. RHETORIC IN THE ROMAN PERIOD	98	(29)
Hermagoras	99	(1)
Rhetoric at Rome	100	(1)
Cicero's On Invention	101	(7)
Rhetoric for Herennius	108	(5)
Cicero's Dialogue On the Orator	113	(2)
Quintilian's Education of the Orator	115	(3)
Tacitus's Dialogue on Orators	118	(1)
Women in Roman Public Life	119	(2)
The Hermogenic Corpus	121	(2)
Rhetores Latini Minores	123	(1)
Donatus's Art of Grammar	124	(3)
CHAPTER 6. LITERARY RHETORIC	127	(10)
Demetrius's On Style	130	(1)
Dionysius of Halicarnassus	131	(1)
Canons and Imitation	132	(2)
Longinus, On Sublimity	134	(1)
Rhetoric and Poetics	135	(2)
CHAPTER 7. JUDEO-CHRISTIAN RHETORIC	137	(46)
Old Testament Rhetoric	137	(6)
New Testament Rhetoric	143	(5)
The Apostles	148	(4)
Apologists and Polemicists	152	(3)
Preaching	155	(2)
Origen	157	(3)
Gregory Thaumaturgus	160	(1)
Eusebius	161	(2)
Gregory of Nazianzus	163	(2)
John Chrysostom	165	(2)
The Latin Fathers	167	(2)
Lactantius	169	(1)
Saint Augustine	170	(13)
CHAPTER 8. GREEK RHETORIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES	183	(13)
Grammar Schools	185	(2)
Rhetorical Schools	187	(3)
Advanced Education in Constantinople	190	(2)
Attic Greek	192	(1)
Functions of Rhetoric in Byzantium	193	(3)
CHAPTER 9. LATIN RHETORIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES	196	(30)
Martianus Capella	197	(2)
Cassiodorus	199	(2)
Boethius	201	(2)
Isidore	203	(1)
Applications of Rhetoric in the Early Middle Ages	204	(2)
Bede	206	(1)
The Carolingian Age	207	(1)
Alcuin	207	(2)
Hrabanus Maurus	209	(1)
Notker of St. Gall	210	(1)
Rhetoric in Medieval Italy	211	(1)
Handbooks of Dictamen	212	(4)
Rhetoric in Medieval France	216	(4)
The Arts of Poetry	220	(1)
The Arts of Preaching	221	(5)
CHAPTER 10. CLASSICAL RHETORIC IN THE RENAISSANCE	226	(33)
The Italian Humanists	226	(4)
Women in the Humanist Movement	230	(1)
George Trebizond	231	(6)
Fichet and Traversagni	237	(1)
Ciceronians and Anti-Ciceronians	238	(3)
Rhetoric and Dialectic	241	(1)
Lorenzo Valla and Rudolphus Agricola	241	(3)
Erasmus	244	(1)
Jan Luis Vives	245	(1)
English Rhetorics of the Sixteenth Century	246	(3)
Peter Ramus	249	(3)
Rhetoric in Spain and Mexico	252	(2)
G. J. Vossius	254	(1)
Francis Bacon	254	(5)
CHAPTER 11. NEOCLASSICAL RHETORIC	259	(31)
Women's Rhetoric in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	261	(2)
Bernard Lamy	263	(1)
Boileau and "The Sublime,"	264	(1)
Preaching	265	(1)
Fenelon	266	(3)
Philosophy and Rhetoric: Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Hume, and Kant	269	(6)
Major European Rhetorical Treatises of the Eighteenth Century	275	(2)
Rhetorical Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Ward, Sheridan, Lawson, Smith, and Campbell	277	(5)
Hugh Blair	282	(3)
Richard Whately	285	(1)
The First American Rhetoric Books	286	(2)
Philology and Rhetoric	288	(2)
CHAPTER 12. CLASSICAL RHETORIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY	290	(11)
Rhetoric and English Composition	292	(1)
The Renaissance of Rhetoric	293	(1)
The "New" Rhetorics	293	(3)
Twentieth-Century Critical Theory	296	(3)
Comparative Rhetoric	299	(2)
Notes	301	(24)
Bibliography	325	(12)
Index	337