In Defence of Rhetoric

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-811791-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 737 g

Reihe: Clarendon Paperbacks

Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vickers, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

References

1. An Outline of Classical Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Life
- The Major Texts
- The Main Processes of Rhetoric
a) The Three Genres
b) The Stages of Composition
c) The Parts of a Speech
d) The Orator's Three Duties
e) The Three Styles

2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric

3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric
- Responses to Plato
- The Triumph of Rhetoric
- The Revenge of Philosophy

4. Medieval Fragmentation

5. Renaissance Reintegration

6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures

7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts

8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel

9. Epilogue: The Future of Rhetoric

Bibliography

Index