The Rhetorical Tradition Readings from Classical Times to the Present

by Bizzell, Patricia; Herzberg, Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780312148393
• ISBN10: 0312148399
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-22
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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.

Author Biography

PATRICIA BIZZELL (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. With Bruce Herzberg she has published Negotiating Difference (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), and with Bruce Herzberg and Nedra Reynolds, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Fifth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).

BRUCE HERZBERG (Ph.D. Rutgers University) is professor and Chair of English at Bentley College. With Patricia Bizzell he has published Negotiating Difference (Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), and with Patricia Bizzell and Nedra Reynolds, The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, Fifth Edition (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).

Table of Contents

Preface	v
General Introduction	1	(16)
The Origins of Rhetoric	1	(1)
Classical Rhetoric	2	(6)
Medieval Rhetoric	8	(1)
The Renaissance	9	(1)
The Enlightenment	10	(2)
Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric	12	(2)
Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric	14	(3)
Part One CLASSICAL RHETORIC	17	(412)
Introduction	19	(23)
The Sophistic Movement	22	(3)
Isocrates and Education in Rhetoric	25	(2)
Aspasia and Opportunities for Women	27	(1)
Plato: True and False Rhetoric	28	(2)
Aristotle: Systematic Rhetoric	30	(2)
The Rise of Rome and the Rhetoric of Cicero	32	(4)
Imperial Rome and the Rhetoric of Quintilian	36	(6)
Gorglas	42	(5)
Encomium of Helen	44	(3)
Anonymous	47	(9)
Dissoi Logoi	48	(8)
Aspasia	56	(11)
Plato, From Menexenus	60	(4)
Cicero, From De Inventione	64	(1)
Athenaeus, From Deipnosophistae	65	(1)
Plutarch, From Lives	66	(1)
Isocrates	67	(13)
Against the Sophists	72	(3)
From Antidosis	75	(5)
Plato	80	(89)
Gorgias	87	(51)
Phaedrus	138	(31)
Aristotle	169	(72)
From Rhetoric	179	(62)
Anonymous	241	(42)
Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book IV	243	(40)
Cicero	283	(61)
From De Oratore	289	(50)
From Orator	339	(5)
Longinus	344	(15)
From on the Sublime	346	(13)
Quintilian	359	(70)
From Institutes of Oratory	364	(65)
Part Two MEDIEVAL RHETORIC	429	(124)
Introduction	431	(19)
Christian Treatments of Rhetoric to Augustine	431	(3)
Rhetoric under Siege in Europe to 1000 C.E.	434	(4)
The ``Renaissance of the Twelfth Century,''	438	(3)
The Rise of the University	441	(3)
The Arts of Letter Writing and Preaching	444	(6)
Augustine	450	(36)
On Christian Doctrine, Book IV	456	(30)
Boethius	486	(6)
An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric	488	(4)
Anonymous	492	(11)
From The Principles of Letter Writing	496	(7)
Geoffrey of Vinsauf	503	(22)
From Poetria Nova	506	(19)
Robert of Basevorn	525	(15)
From The Form of Preaching	528	(12)
Christine De Pizan	540	(13)
From The Book of the City of Ladies	544	(2)
From The Treasure of the City of Ladies	546	(7)
Part Three RENAISSANCE RHETORIC	553	(236)
Introduction	555	(26)
Rhetoric and Italian Humanism	556	(6)
Italian Women Humanists	562	(3)
Humanism in Northern Europe: Agricola, Erasmus, and Ramus	565	(5)
Humanism and Rhetoric in England: Ramus versus Cicero	570	(11)
Desiderius Erasmus	581	(70)
From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style	597	(31)
From Ecclesiastes	628	(23)
Baldesar Castiglione	651	(23)
From The Book of the Courtier	661	(13)
Peter Ramus	674	(24)
From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian	681	(17)
Thomas Wilson	698	(38)
From The Arte of Rhetorique	702	(34)
Francis Bacon	736	(12)
From The Advancement of Learning	740	(5)
From Novum Organum	745	(3)
Margaret Fell	748	(13)
Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures	753	(8)
Madeleine De Scudery	761	(19)
Of Conversation	767	(6)
Of Speaking too much, or too little, And how we ought Speak	773	(7)
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz	780	(9)
From the Poet's Answer to the Most Illustrious Sister Filotea de la Cruz	784	(5)
Part Four ENLIGHTENMENT RHETORIC	789	(192)
Introduction	791	(23)
Rhetoric in the Enlightenment: An Overview	791	(2)
Seventeenth-Century Rhetoric	793	(6)
Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric	799	(15)
John Locke	814	(14)
From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	817	(11)
David Hume	828	(13)
Of the Standard of Taste	830	(11)
Mary Astell	841	(21)
From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II	847	(15)
Giambattista Vico	862	(17)
From On the Study Methods of Our Time	865	(14)
Thomas Sheridan	879	(10)
A Course of Lectures on Elocution, Lecture VI	881	(8)
Gilbert Austin	889	(9)
From Chironomia	890	(8)
George Campbell	898	(49)
From The Philosophy of Rhetoric	902	(45)
Hugh Blair	947	(34)
From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	950	(31)
Part Five NINETEENTH-CENTURY RHETORIC	981	(200)
Introduction	983	(17)
Richard Wately's Rhetoric	983	(2)
The Development of Women's Rhetorics	985	(6)
The Rhetorics of Men of Color	991	(2)
The Rhetoric of Composition	993	(2)
Romanticism and Rhetoric	995	(1)
Language, Rhetoric, and Knowledge	996	(4)
Richard Whately	1000	(31)
From Elements of Rhetoric	1003	(28)
Maria W. Stewart	1031	(14)
Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall	1037	(2)
Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston	1039	(6)
Sarah Grimke	1045	(16)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, Letters III, IV, and XIV	1050	(11)
Frederick Douglass	1061	(24)
From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	1070	(5)
From My Bondage and My Freedom	1075	(4)
From The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass	1079	(6)
Phoebe Palmer	1085	(29)
The Promise of the Father, Chapter I	1095	(5)
Tongue of Fire on the Daughters of the Lord	1100	(14)
Frances Willard	1114	(27)
From Woman in the Pulpit	1124	(11)
From Woman and Temperance	1135	(6)
Alexander Bain and Adams Sherman Hill	1141	(11)
Alexander Bain, From English Composition and Rhetoric	1145	(4)
Adams Sherman Hill, From The Principles of Rhetoric	1149	(3)
Herbert Spencer	1152	(16)
From The Philosophy of Style	1154	(14)
Friedrich Nietzsche	1168	(13)
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense	1171	(10)
Part Six MODERN AND POSTMODERN RHETORIC	1181	(448)
Introduction	1183	(23)
Rhetoric and Composition	1184	(2)
Speech Communication	1186	(1)
Academic Rhetoric in Europe and the United States	1187	(1)
Philosophy of Language versus Rhetoric	1188	(1)
Semantics and Semiotics	1189	(1)
The Meaning of Meaning in Philosophy and Literature	1190	(1)
Meaning and Dialogism	1191	(2)
Literature, Logic, Rhetoric, and Ethics	1193	(2)
Rhetoric versus Logic	1195	(1)
Discourse, Knowledge, and Ideology	1196	(3)
Rhetorics of Gender, Race, and Culture in the Twentieth Century	1199	(3)
The Reach of Rhetoric	1202	(4)
Mikhail Bakhtin	1206	(40)
From Marxism and the Philosophy of Language	1210	(17)
From The Problem of Speech Genres	1227	(19)
Virginia Woolf	1246	(24)
Professions for Women	1253	(3)
Women and Fiction	1256	(4)
Dorothy Richardson	1260	(2)
A Room of One's Own, Chapter Five	1262	(8)
I. A. Richards	1270	(25)
I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden, From The Meaning of Meaning	1273	(8)
I. A. Richards, From The Philosophy of Rhetoric	1281	(14)
Kenneth Burke	1295	(53)
From A Grammar of Motives	1298	(26)
From A Rhetoric of Motives	1324	(16)
From Language as Symbolic Action	1340	(8)
Richard Weaver	1348	(24)
Language Is Sermonic	1351	(10)
The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric	1361	(11)
Chaim Perelman	1372	(38)
Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, From The New Rhetoric	1375	(4)
Chaim Perelman, From The Realm of Rhetoric	1379	(5)
Chaim Perelman, The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning	1384	(26)
Stephen Toulmin	1410	(22)
From The Uses of Argument	1413	(16)
From Logic and the Criticism of Arguments	1429	(3)
Michel Foucault	1432	(39)
From The Archaeology of Knowledge	1436	(24)
From The Order of Discourse	1460	(11)
Jacques Derrida	1471	(20)
Signature Event Context	1475	(16)
Wayne C. Booth	1491	(29)
From Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent	1493	(27)
Helene Cixous	1520	(23)
The Laugh of the Medusa	1524	(13)
Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement, A Woman Mistress	1537	(6)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.	1543	(39)
From The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning	1551	(31)
Gloria Anzaldua	1582	(23)
From Borderlands/La frontera	1585	(20)
Stanley Fish	1605	(24)
Rhetoric	1609	(20)
Glossary	1629	(10)
Index	1639