The Sixth Canon

by Warnick, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780872498921
• ISBN10: 0872498921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Blair and the Transition to Belletrism	p. 2
Scottish Belletrists and "The Sixth Canon"	p. 4
French Belletrism	p. 6
The Sixth Canon as a "Rhetorical Theory"	p. 10
The French Influence	p. 14
Lamy's L'Art de parler and the Eclipse of Invention	p. 18
Bernard Lamy's L'Art de parler	p. 21
L'Art de parler as a Precursor of Belletrism	p. 22
Invention in L'Art de parler	p. 24
The Psychological Dimensions of Persuasion	p. 28
Vraisemblance	p. 32
L'Art de parler as a Transitional Rhetoric	p. 34
The Sixth Canon: A New Theory of Influence	p. 34
Oratory as Portraiture	p. 35
Propriety	p. 38
Vraisemblance	p. 40
Clarity	p. 43
Propriety	p. 47
Bienseance and Other Critical Terms	p. 47
Bienseance in Fenelon's Rhetorical Theory	p. 50
Sympathy and Propriety in Adam Smith's Lectures	p. 57
Propriety and Plausibility in George Campbell's Works	p. 62
Propriety in Hugh Blair's Lectures	p. 68
The Sublime	p. 74
Boileau and the Sublime	p. 76
Joseph Priestley's Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism	p. 84
George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric	p. 87
Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres	p. 89
Taste	p. 95
An Empiricist View of Taste: Hume and Gerard	p. 97
A Common Sense Philosophy of Taste: Reid's Reply to Hume and Gerard	p. 107
Hugh Blair's Theory of Taste: Something for Everyone	p. 111
Taste in George Campbell's Rhetorical Theory	p. 116
The Roots of Empiricist Aesthetics in the Work of Abbe Dubos	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 129
Notes	p. 137
Selected References	p. 161
Index	p. 171
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