A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0112-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

'A Companion to Rhetoric' 'and Rhetorical Criticism' 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. The contributions are written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields and have all been specially commissioned for this volume. They focus on specific works, problems, or figures, pursuing theory and criticism from an engaged and practical perspective. The volume also includes an overview of rhetorical traditions, providing examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Designed to be accessible to a range of students and scholars, 'A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism' elaborates in fascinating ways just what it means to 'think like a rhetorician.'

Reviews:

Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted have produced a remarkable volume that serves equally well as an introduction to rhetorical studies and as a reference work for specialists. The range of the essays and the credentials of the contributors mark the book as important, but its most notable feature is the conception and development of a general work on rhetoric that remains connected with specific texts, historical contexts, and material circumstances. [.] The result is a volume impressive in its parts and invaluable in its totality, a must read.' 'Michael C. Leff, Northwestern University'

Zielgruppe

upper level students, researchers and faculty studying rhetoric and rhetorical criticism in departments of communication studies, literature and classics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jost, Walter

Olmsted, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Rhetoric in Its Place and Time:

1. Introduction

2. Introduction: Contingency and Probability: Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar (Northwestern University)

3. The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens: David Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)

4. Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's 'First Catilinarian: 'B. A. Krostenko (University of Notre Dame)

5. A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1: Marjorie ORourke Boyle

6. Continental Poetics: Arthur Kinney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

7. His tail at commandment: George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric: Wayne A. Rebhorn (University of Texas)

8. Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton: Thomas O. Sloane (University of California, Berkeley)

9. Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period: Victoria Kahn (University of California, Berkeley)

10. The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbells 'Philosophy of Rhetoric: 'Joel C. Weinsheimer (University of Minnesota)

11. The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke: Herbert Simons (Temple University)

Part II: Some of Rhetorics Favorite Places:

12. Introduction

13. Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's 'De Officiis' and Machiavelli's 'Prince: 'Wendy Olmsted (University of Chicago)

14. Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the 'Federalist Papers: 'David Smigelskis (University of Chicago)

15. Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the 'Phaedo: 'Eugene Garver (Saint Johns University)

16. Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion: James Kastely (University of Houston)

17. Aphoristic style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism: Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University)

18. Analogies, parables, paradoxes: Get On Down: Platos Rhetoric of Education in the 'Republic: 'Kathy Eden (Columbia University)

19. Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments: Thomas Conley

20. Commonplaces: 'Sensus Communis: 'John Schaeffer (Northern Illinois University)

21. Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley)

Part III: Rhetoric and a Few of Its Critics:

22. Introduction

23. Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost: Walter Jost (University of Virginia)

24. Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction, in General: Peter Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)

25. Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Whartons 'Roman Fever': Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise: James Phelan (Ohio State University)

26. Mind the Gap: W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest: Adam Zachary Newton (University of Texas at Austin)

27. Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late 20th Century: James Crosswhite (University of Oregon)

Part IV: Rhetorics Good Timing:

28. Introduction

29. Aristotles Rhetoric and Bakhtins Discourse Theory: Don Bialostosky (University of Pittsburgh)

30. Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology: Stephen H. Webb (Wabash College)

31. Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir: Nancy S. Struever (John Hopkins University)

32. Rhetoric in the Law: Robert Burns (Northwestern University)

33. Rhetorical Hermeneutics Once Again: or, Phronesis Unwrapped: Steven Mailloux (University of California, Irvine)

34. Rhetoric and Poetry: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed: Charles Altieri

35. My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession: Wayne C. Booth

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Jost teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Wendy Olmsted teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.
Temple University, University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, University of Virginia, University of California at Berkeley, St John's University, University of Texas, University of Minnesota, University of Houston, Northwestern University, Univers