By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds. Students gain a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. This new 6th edition includes greater attention to non-Western studies, as well as contemporary developments such as the rhetoric of science, feminist rhetoric, the rhetoric of display, and comparative rhetoric. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today’s students.
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.