A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism / edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted.
Material type: TextSeries: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture | Blackwell companion to literature and culture | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 22.Publication details: Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.Description: xvi, 522 p. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9781405149570 (pbk.) :
- 1405149574
- 808.042 JOS
- PN187 .C65 2006
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Originally published: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Rhetoric in Its Place and Time:- 1. Introduction: Contingency and Probability-- 2. The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens--3. Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero\'s First Catilinarian--4. A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1-- 5. Continental Poetics-- 6. \'His tail at commandment\': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric-- 7. Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton-- 8. Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period-- 9. The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell\'s Philosophy of Rhetoric-- 10. The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke-- Part II: Rhetoric\'s Favorite Places:- 11. Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero\'s De Officiis and Machiavelli\'s Prince-- 12. Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers--13. Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo--14. Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion--15. Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato\'s Rhetoric of Education in the Republic--16. Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism--17. Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments-- 18. Commonplaces: Sensus communis--19. Judgment: Arts of persuasion and judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics--Part III: Rhetoric and Its Critics:- 20. Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost--21. Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction - in General--22. Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton\'s Roman Fever:Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of surprise--23. Mind the Gap: W.G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest--24. Rhetoric in the wilderness: The deep Rhetoric of the late twentieth century--Part IV: All in Good Time- and Timing:- 25. Aristotle\'s Rhetoric and Bakhtin\'s Discourse Theory--26. Reviving the rhetorical heritage of protestant theology--27. Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir--28. Rhetoric in the Law--29. Rhetorical Hermeneutics still again: or, On the track of Phronesis--30. Rhetoric and Poetics: How to use the inevitable return of the repressed--31. My life with rhetoric: from neglect to obsession.
This title offers a survey of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. It includes an overview of rhetorical traditions, providing examples of rhetoric from ancient to contemporary times.