| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) |
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Aristotle's Rhetoric and the contemporary arts of practical discourse / Robert N. Gaines -- What Aristotle meant by rhetoric / Alan G. Gross -- Aristotle on speaking "outside the subject": the special topics and rhetorical forums / Arthur E. Walzer -- The contemporary irrelevance of Aristotle's practical reason / Eugene Garver -- Pathos and Katharsis in "Aristotelian" rhetoric: some implications / Jeffrey Walker -- Aristotle's Enthymeme as tacit reference / Thomas B. Farrell -- Two systems of invention: the topics in the Rhetoric and the New rhetoric / Barbara Warnick -- The Aristotelian topos: hunting for novelty / Carolyn R. Miller -- Aristotelian Lexis and renaissance Elocutio / Lawrence D. Green -- Aristotle and theories of figuration / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Aristotle's Rhetoric: a guide to the scholarship / Arthur E. Walzer, Michael Tiffany, and Alan G. Gross |
| Summary |
In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to "reread" Aristotle's Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, that a core tenet in this book is that "all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work."The essays reflect on questions basic to rhetoric as a humanistic discipline. Some explore the ways in which the Rhetoric explicates the natur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Aristotle. Rhetoric.
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| SUBJECT |
Aristoteles. De arte rhetorica. swd |
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Rhetoric (Aristotle) fast |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Speech.
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Rhetorica (Aristoteles)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gross, Alan G
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Walzer, Arthur E., 1944-
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| ISBN |
0585313644 |
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9780585313641 |
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9780809387236 |
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0809387239 |
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080932847X |
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9780809328475 |
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