Sipiora / Baumlin Rhetoric and Kairos

Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8938-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role “timeliness” or “right-timing” plays in human deliberation, speech, and action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sipiora, Phillip

Baumlin, James S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Foreword
Carolyn R. Miller Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos
Phillip Sipiora 1. A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and Sophistry
Augusto Rostagni
translated by Phillip Sipiora 2. Time and Qualitative Time
John E. Smith
3. Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory
James L. Kinneavy 4. Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos/ Richard Leo Enos 5. Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical Compositions
John Poulakos
6. Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences
Catherine R. Eskin 7. Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament
Phillip Sipiora 8. Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege Servilia
Joseph J. Hughes 9. Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric
James S. Baumlin 10. Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet
James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin 11. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos
Roger Thompson 12. In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West
Gregory Mason 13. Changing Times in Composition Classics: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection
Carolyn Eriksen Hill 14. On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos
Amélie Frost Benedikt 15. A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts
Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

Phillip Sipiora is Professor and Associate Chair of English at The University of South Florida. He is the coeditor, with Fredric G. Gale and James L. Kinneavy, of Ethical Issues in College Writing. James S. Baumlin is Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse and coeditor, with Tita F. Baumlin, of Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory.