Advances in the History of Rhetoric

The First Six Years

Richard Leo Enos, David Beard

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9781602350250
• eBook ISBN:
  9781602350274
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Literature

Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal's history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to acquire is now offered in a coherent and comprehensive collection that is complemented by a detailed index and unified bibliography. This collection covers a range of periods and topics in the history of rhetoric, including Greek and Roman rhetoric, rhetoric and religion, women in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and science, Renaissance and British rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture, and the development of American rhetoric and composition. The editors, Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard, provide a preface and afterword that synthesize the mission and meaning of this work for students and scholars of the history of rhetoric.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface: Our Title Is Our Mission Statement
• 1 Beyond Dichotomy: The Sophists’ Understanding of Antithetical Thought
• 2 Hermagoras’ Theory of Prose Oikonomia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus
• 3 The Teaching of the Progymnasmata of Pedro Juan Núñez (Valencia 1529–1602)
• 4 Erasmus’s Irenic Rhetorical System
• 5 Neglected Texts of Olympe de Gouges, Pamphleteer of the French Revolution of 1789
• 6 Samuel P. Newman’s A Practical System of Rhetoric: The Evolution of a Method
• 7 Visions of the Probable: The Transition from Rhetorical to Mathematical Models of Probability
• 8 A Rhetorical Liturgy: Ephesians I and the Problem of Race Relations in the Early Christian Church
• 9 “Danced through Every Labyrinth of the Law”: Benjamin Austin on Rhetoric as Virtue and Vice in Early American Legal Practice
• 10 The Human Genome Project: Novel Approaches, Probable Reasoning, and the Advancement of Science
• 11 Let’s Re-Enact Rhetoric’s History
• 12 Leading Lady or Bit Part: The Role of the History of Rhetoric in Communication Education
• 13 Encomium on Helen as Advertisement: Political Life According to Gorgias the Barbarian
• 14 Upholding the Values of the Community: Normative Psychology in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
• 15 Enacting the Roman Republic: Reading Pliny’s Panegyric Rhetorically
• 16 Hrotsvit, Strong Voice of Gandersheim
• Classical and Christian Conflicts in Keckermann’s De rhetoricae ecclesiasticae utilitate
• 18 Rethinking the History of African-American Self-Help Rhetoric: From Abolition to Civil Rights and Beyond
• 19 Historical Continuity and the Politics/Rhetoric of Democracy: Solonian Reforms and the Council of 400
• 20 Recognizing a Rhetorical Theory of Figures: What Aristotle Tells Us About the Relationship Between Metaphor and Other Figures of Speech
• 21 Disciplinary Relations in Ancient and Renaissance Rhetorics
• 22 Walter Pater and the Rhetorical Tradition: Finding Common Sense in the Particular
• 23 Contemporary Pedagogy for Classical Rhetoric: Averting the Reductionism of Classical Opposition
• 24 Rhetoric, Civic Consciousness, and Civic Conscience: The Invention of Citizenship in Classical Greece
• 25 Motives for Practicing Shakespeare Criticism as a “Rational Science” in Lord Kames’s Elements of Criticism
• 26 Sentimental Journey: The Place and Status of the Emotions in Hugh Blair’s Rhetoric
• 27 Who Measures “Due Measure”? or, Kairos Meets Counter-Kairos: Implications of Isegoria for Classical Notions of Kairos
• 28 “Time Appeases Anger”: The Rhetorical-Political Temporality of the Paradigmatic Passion of Orge in Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Politics
• 29 Augustan Rhetoric: The Declining Orator
• Afterword: Moments of Opportunity in the History of Rhetoric
• Appendix: A Brief History of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric
• Bibliography of Classical Authors
• Bibliography
• Index
• Back cover