Rhetoric category: 666 books
New Rhetoric, The
A Treatise on Argumentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1973
The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since “argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced,” says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they rely, in particular, for their theory of...
African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering...
Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw
Animals, Language, Sensation
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric.
Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they’re crawling with animals. With Rhetoric...
Rhetoric in the Flesh
Trained Vision, Technical Expertise, and the Gross Anatomy Lab
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Rhetoric in the Flesh is the first book-length ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab to explain how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise and how they shape participants’ perceptions of the human body. By investigating...
Three Arabic Treatises on Aristotle’s Rhetoric
The Commentaries of al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Winner, 2018 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature
It is increasingly well documented that western rhetoric’s journey from pagan Athens to the medieval academies of Christian Europe was significantly influenced by the intellectual thought...
by George A. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion.
Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
This important volume explores alternative ways in which those involved in the field of speech communication have attempted to find a philosophical grounding for rhetoric. Recognizing that rhetoric can be supported in a wide variety of ways, this text examines eight different philosophies of rhetoric:...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are – rhetorical constructs. These senior, international...
Ambient Rhetoric
The Attunements of Rhetorical Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied...
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge
A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
In this second edition of Steve Fuller's original work Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge: A New Beginning for Science and Technology Studies, James Collier joins Fuller in developing an updated and accessible version of Fuller's classic volume. The new edition shifts focus slightly to...
Rhetoric and Power
The Drama of Classical Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning with the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its...
Discursive Ideologies
Reading Western Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Discursive Ideologies, C. H. Knoblauch argues that European rhetorical theory comprises several distinct and fundamentally opposed traditions of discourse. Writing accessibly for the upper division student, Knoblauch resists the conventional narrative of a unified Western rhetorical tradition....
Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn
The East-West Coin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Rhetoric at the Non-Substantialistic Turn: The East-West Coin presents a unique theory of rhetoric that encompasses both Eastern and Western approaches. Based on the Field-Being philosophy founded by Lik Kuen Tong, this theory gives an account of the ontological foundations of both kinds of rhetoric....
Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric
Selected Papers From the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's The Prospect of Rhetoric. In so doing, the conference gave scholars and teachers in various disciplines from all over the country the opportunity to talk about...