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The history and theory of rhetoric : an introduction / James A. Herrick.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 303 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0205314554 (pbk.)
ISSN:
  • 9780205314553
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN183 .H47
Contents:
1. An overview of rhetoric -- Rhetoric and persuasion -- Defining rhetoric -- Rhetorical discourse -- Social functions of the art of rhetoric -- Conclusion -- 2. The origins and early history of rhetoric -- The rise of rhetoric in ancient Greece -- The Sophists -- Three influential Sophists -- Gorgias, Protagoras, Isocrates -- Aspasia's role in Athenian rhetoric -- Conclusion -- 3. Plato versus the Sophists: Rhetoric on trial -- Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric on trial -- Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus: A true art? -- Conclusion -- 4. Aristotle on rhetoric -- Aristotle's definitions of rhetoric -- Three rhetorical settings -- Deliberative oratory, epideietic oratory, forensic oratory -- The artistic proofs -- Logos: The logic of sound arguments, Pathos: The psychology of emotions, Ethos: The sociology of good character -- The topoi, or lines of argument -- Aristotle on style -- Conclusion -- 5. Rhetoric at Rome -- Roman society and the place of rhetoric -- The rhetorical theory of Cicero -- Quintilian -- Longinus: On the sublime -- Rhetoric in the later Roman empire -- Conclusion. 6. Rhetoric in Christian Europe -- Rhetoric, tension, and fragmentation -- Rhetoric and the medieval curriculum -- Rhetoric in the early Middle Ages: Augustine, Capella, and Boethius -- St. Augustine -- Martianus Capella -- Boethius -- Three rhetorical arts in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The art of preaching -- The art of letter writing -- The art of poetry -- Conclusion -- 7. Rhetoric in the Renaissance -- Features of Renaissance rhetoric -- Lorenzo Valla: Retrieving the rhetorical tradition -- Women and Renaissance rhetoric -- Italian Humanism: A catalyst for rhetoric's expansion -- Rhetoric as personal and political influence -- Humanism, rhetoric, and the study of classical texts -- Petrarch and the origins of Italian humanism -- Pico della Mirandola and the magic of language -- Juan Luis Vives -- Rhetoric and the Vita Activa -- The turn toward dialectic: Rhetoric and its critics -- Agricola, Peter Ramus -- Renaissance rhetorics in Britain -- Conclusion -- 8. Enlightenment rhetorics -- Vico on rhetoric and human thought -- British rhetorics in the eighteenth century -- The Elocutionary movement -- Thomas Sheridan -- The Belletristic movement -- Lord Kames, Hugh Blair -- George Campbell and scientific rhetoric -- Richard Whately's classical rhetoric -- Conclusion -- 9. Contemporary rhetoric I: Argument, audience, and science -- Argumentation and rational discourse -- Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: A new rhetoric -- Stephen Toulmin and the uses of argument -- Jurgen Habermas and the conditions of rational discourse -- Argumentation and scientific inquiry -- Deirdre McCloskey and the rhetoric of economics -- Clifford Geertz and rhetoric in anthropology -- Michael Billig and the rhetoric of social psychology -- John Campbell on the rhetoric of Charles Darwin -- Conclusion. 10. Contemporary rhetoric II: The rhetoric of situation, drama, and narration -- Rhetoric in its social context: The dramatic and situational views -- Kenneth Burke and rhetoric as symbolic action -- Lloyd Bitzer and rhetoric as situational -- Rhetoric as narration -- Mikhail Bakhtin and the polyphonic novel -- Wayne Booth and the rhetoric of fiction -- Ernest Bormann and the rhetoric of fantasy -- Walter Fisher and rhetoric as narration -- Conclusion -- 11. Contemporary rhetoric III: Discourse, power, and social criticism -- Michael Foucault: Discourse, knowledge, and power -- Jacques Derrida: Texts, meanings, and deconstruction -- Richard Weaver: Rhetoric and the preservation of culture -- Feminism and rhetoric: Critique and reform in rhetoric -- George Kennedy and comparative rhetoric -- Conclusion.
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Includes Index

1. An overview of rhetoric --
Rhetoric and persuasion --
Defining rhetoric --
Rhetorical discourse --
Social functions of the art of rhetoric --
Conclusion --
2. The origins and early history of rhetoric --
The rise of rhetoric in ancient Greece --
The Sophists --
Three influential Sophists --
Gorgias, Protagoras, Isocrates --
Aspasia's role in Athenian rhetoric --
Conclusion --
3. Plato versus the Sophists: Rhetoric on trial --
Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric on trial --
Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus: A true art? --
Conclusion --
4. Aristotle on rhetoric --
Aristotle's definitions of rhetoric --
Three rhetorical settings --
Deliberative oratory, epideietic oratory, forensic oratory --
The artistic proofs --
Logos: The logic of sound arguments, Pathos: The psychology of emotions, Ethos: The sociology of good character --
The topoi, or lines of argument --
Aristotle on style --
Conclusion --
5. Rhetoric at Rome --
Roman society and the place of rhetoric --
The rhetorical theory of Cicero --
Quintilian --
Longinus: On the sublime --
Rhetoric in the later Roman empire --
Conclusion. 6. Rhetoric in Christian Europe --
Rhetoric, tension, and fragmentation --
Rhetoric and the medieval curriculum --
Rhetoric in the early Middle Ages: Augustine, Capella, and Boethius --
St. Augustine --
Martianus Capella --
Boethius --
Three rhetorical arts in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries --
The art of preaching --
The art of letter writing --
The art of poetry --
Conclusion --
7. Rhetoric in the Renaissance --
Features of Renaissance rhetoric --
Lorenzo Valla: Retrieving the rhetorical tradition --
Women and Renaissance rhetoric --
Italian Humanism: A catalyst for rhetoric's expansion --
Rhetoric as personal and political influence --
Humanism, rhetoric, and the study of classical texts --
Petrarch and the origins of Italian humanism --
Pico della Mirandola and the magic of language --
Juan Luis Vives --
Rhetoric and the Vita Activa --
The turn toward dialectic: Rhetoric and its critics --
Agricola, Peter Ramus --
Renaissance rhetorics in Britain --
Conclusion --
8. Enlightenment rhetorics --
Vico on rhetoric and human thought --
British rhetorics in the eighteenth century --
The Elocutionary movement --
Thomas Sheridan --
The Belletristic movement --
Lord Kames, Hugh Blair --
George Campbell and scientific rhetoric --
Richard Whately's classical rhetoric --
Conclusion --
9. Contemporary rhetoric I: Argument, audience, and science --
Argumentation and rational discourse --
Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: A new rhetoric --
Stephen Toulmin and the uses of argument --
Jurgen Habermas and the conditions of rational discourse --
Argumentation and scientific inquiry --
Deirdre McCloskey and the rhetoric of economics --
Clifford Geertz and rhetoric in anthropology --
Michael Billig and the rhetoric of social psychology --
John Campbell on the rhetoric of Charles Darwin --
Conclusion. 10. Contemporary rhetoric II: The rhetoric of situation, drama, and narration --
Rhetoric in its social context: The dramatic and situational views --
Kenneth Burke and rhetoric as symbolic action --
Lloyd Bitzer and rhetoric as situational --
Rhetoric as narration --
Mikhail Bakhtin and the polyphonic novel --
Wayne Booth and the rhetoric of fiction --
Ernest Bormann and the rhetoric of fantasy --
Walter Fisher and rhetoric as narration --
Conclusion --
11. Contemporary rhetoric III: Discourse, power, and social criticism --
Michael Foucault: Discourse, knowledge, and power --
Jacques Derrida: Texts, meanings, and deconstruction --
Richard Weaver: Rhetoric and the preservation of culture --
Feminism and rhetoric: Critique and reform in rhetoric --
George Kennedy and comparative rhetoric --
Conclusion.

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