Rhetoric [electronic resource] / Jennifer Richards.
The term 'rhetoric' describes the effective use of language, usually to persuade or influence. Frequently set up in opposition to 'truth' or 'plain speech', it has attracted critical debate from Ancient philosophy to literary theory. This book examines both the practice...
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2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is Rhetoric?
- Part 1: The Classical Art
- Beginnings.
- Plato's Attack.
- Aristotle's Rhetoric.
- The Roman Art.
- Cicero: Rejecting Theory.
- Part 2: Rhetoric Renewed
- Renaissance to Enlightenment.
- Literature and Rhetoric.
- 'Rhetorical Didactics': Post-Enlightenment.
- Part 3: Rhetoric to Rhetoricality I.A. Richards: The Art Renewed.
- The Death of Rhetoric.
- Post-Structuralist Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric Extended.
- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms.
- Bibliography.
- Index.