The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers an accessible discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American and European theorists. By tracing the historical progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists of the fifth century B.C. to contemporary studies - such as the rhetoric of science and feminist rhetoric - this book teaches what rhetoric is and what unites differing rhetorical theories throughout history. The History and Theory of Rhetoric uses concise contemporary examples throughout and emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today's readers. For anyone interested in Rhetorical Theory.
Manfred Fuhrmann, Joy Connolly, The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Though in Ancient Rome (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 1. Cicero and the Roman Republic, trans. W. E. Yuill (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 18. 3.
History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction
Boethius (Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE) Boethius focuses almost exclusively on invention and the topics, and his work is interpreted by the histories of George Kennedy and Conley as contributing to the subordination of rhetoric to ...
This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric.
Renaissance writers rejected the division of rhetoric into three genres, proposing a range of different purposes, forms, and structures ... Renaissance Rhetoric Short-Title Catalogue 1460–1700 (Aldershot, 2006), pp. xi–xii, xvii–xxi.
Such changes create lines of force that may be exploited by canny rhetors looking to wield rhetorical power. Crowley's abstraction to a spectrum elides somewhat the multiplicity of argumentative communities that may be party to single ...
This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that ...
This volume embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. The essays draw on wide-ranging conceptual resources, and combine historical, theoretical, and practical points of view.
Freud's work was extended by his most famous pupil, Carl Jung, who broke with Freud in 1913 and then suffered a nervous breakdown when World War I fulfilled his apocalyptic dream. When he recovered, he developed his own theory of ...
Cf. the comments thereon by Francis P. Donnelly, The oration of Demosthemes on the crown, New York, 1941. portance of emotional appeal in actual oratory and to the 94 EARLY RHETORICAL THEORY.