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Rhetoric: an historical introduction

2007; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 44; Issue: 08 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.44-4301

1943-5975

Wendy Olmsted,

Rhetoric and Communication Studies

Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introducting Rhetoric. Part I: Classical Rhetorical Traditions. Introduction. 1 The Rhetorician: Demagogue or Statesman? Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric. 2 Eloquence, Persuasion, and Invention: Cicero's De oratore. 3 Rhetoric and the Search for God: Augustine's On Christian Doctrine and Confessions. 4 Practical Reason or Interested Calculation? Cicero's On Duties and Machiavelli's The Prince. Part II: Classical Rhetoric and Literary Interpretation. Introduction. 5 Tradition and Invention: Bacon's Aphorisms and the Essays. 6 Deception, Strong Speech, and Mild Discourse in Milton's Early Prose and Paradise Lost. 7 Prudence and Eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Part III: Rhetoric and Contemporary Disciplines. Introduction. 8 Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Invention: Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions. 9 Faction Politics and Rhetorical Invention: Eugene Garver's For the Sake of Argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to Strangers. 10 Legal Reasoning, Historical Contingency, and Change: Edward H. Levi's An Introduction to Legal Reasoning. Index.