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Author(s): Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted
ISBN(s): 9781405149570, 1405149574
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Year: 2006
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ISBN 10: 1405149574 
ISBN 13: 9781405149570
Author: Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted

A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric’s place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Rhetoric in Historical and Cultural Context

  1. Introduction: Contingency and Probability

  2. The Politics of Discourse: Rhetoric and Democracy in Ancient Athens

  3. Text and Context in Roman Oratory: Cicero’s First Speeches

  4. Beginning the Conversation: The Rhetorical Model of John 1:1

  5. Lyric Poetry

  6. “His Tail Follows His Command”: George Puttenham and the Courtly Rhetoric

  7. The Rhetoric of the Self in Erasmus and Milton

  8. Rhetoric, Interest, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period

  9. The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell’s “Philosophy of Rhetoric”

  10. Kenneth Burke’s Rhetorical Legacy

Part II: Key Topics in Rhetoric

  1. Topoi and Discourse: Rhetorical Strategies in Cicero’s “De Officiis” and Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

  2. Rhetoric and Topoi: Creative Strategies in “The Federalist Papers”

  3. Ethos: Socrates’ Self-Defense of Personal Immortality in “Phaedo”

  4. Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion

  5. Metaphor, Allegory, Paradox: Rhetorical Education in Plato’s “Republic”

  6. Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism

  7. Argument: What Humor Can Teach Us About Argumentation

  8. Commonplace: Sensus Communis

  9. Judgment: The Art of Persuasion and Judgment in Rhetoric and Aesthetics

Part III: Rhetoric and Critical Theory

  1. Epiphany and Epideictic: Modern Poetry in Robert Frost

  2. Lolita: Rhetorical Criticism in Literature

  3. Narration as Rhetoric and “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton

  4. “Mind the Gap”: W.G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unease

  5. Rhetoric in the Wilds: Rhetorical Innovations of the 20th Century

Part IV: Timing and Appropriateness in Rhetoric

  1. Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory

  2. Rhetoric’s Revival in Reformation Theology

  3. Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir

  4. Rhetoric in Law

  5. Interpretive Rhetoric: The Search for Phronesis

  6. Rhetoric and Poetics: The Return of the Repressed

  7. My Life with Rhetoric: From Oblivion to Obsession

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