Bültmann & Gerriets
A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
von Walter Jost, Wendy Olmsted
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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ISBN: 978-0-470-99984-4
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Erschienen am 08.05.2008
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 522 Seiten

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Notes on Contributors x
Introduction xv
Acknowledgments xvii
PART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 1
1 Introduction: Contingency and Probability 5
Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar
2 The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens 22
David Cohen
3 Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian 38
B. A. Krostenko
4 A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1 58
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
5 Continental Poetics 80
Arthur F. Kinney
6 ''His tail at commandment'': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric 96
Wayne A. Rebhorn
7 Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton 112
Thomas O. Sloane
8 Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period 128
Victoria Kahn
9 The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric 141
Joel C. Weinsheimer
10 The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke 152
Herbert W. Simons
PART II Rhetoric's Favorite Places 169
11 Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince 173
Wendy Olmsted
12 Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers 190
David J. Smigelskis
13 Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo 206
Eugene Garver
14 Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion 221
James L. Kasteley
15 Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato's Rhetoric of Education in the Republic 238
Kathy Eden
16 Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism 248
Gary Saul Morson
17 Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments 266
Thomas Conley
18 Commonplaces: Sensus Communis 278
John D. Schaeffer
19 Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics 294
Anthony J. Cascardi
PART III Rhetoric and Its Critics 309
20 Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost 311
Walter Jost
21 Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction - in General 325
Peter J. Rabinowitz
22 Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise 340
James Phelan
23 ''Mind the Gap'': W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest 355
Adam Zachary Newton
24 Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century 372
James Crosswhite
PART IV All in Good Time - and Timing 389
25 Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory 393
Don Bialostosky
26 Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology 409
Stephen H. Webb
27 Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir 425
Nancy S. Struever
28 Rhetoric in the Law 442
Robert P. Burns
29 Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronèsis 457
Steven Mailloux
30 Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed 473
Charles Altieri
31 My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession 494
Wayne C. Booth
Index 505



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.


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