Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory And The Disciplining Of Discourse

Author : David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139485999

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Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse by David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa Pdf

This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of 'terms of art' in texts about persuasive speaking and argumentation. The authors provide a series of studies to support their argument. They describe Plato's disciplining of dialgesthai into the Art of Dialectic, Socrates' alternative vision of philosophia, and Aristotle's account of demegoria and symboule as terms for political deliberation. The authors also revisit competing receptions of the Rhetoric to Alexander. Additionally, they examine the argument over when the different parts of oration were formalized in rhetorical theory, illustrating how an 'old school' focus on vocabulary can provide fresh perspectives on persistent questions.

Author : David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 0511749880

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Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse by David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa Pdf

Examines how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory.

Author : David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Greek language
ISBN : OCLC:647932201

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Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse by David M. Timmerman,Edward Schiappa Pdf

Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134892686

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Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action by Ian Worthington Pdf

An exciting and accessible introduction to rhetoric and oratory in ancient Greece. All Greek and Latin is translated.

Author : Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110569063

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Gaze, Vision, and Visuality in Ancient Greek Literature by Alexandros Kampakoglou,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

Visual culture, performance and spectacle lay at the heart of all aspects of ancient Greek daily routine, such as court and assembly, cult and ritual, and art and culture. Seeing was considered the most secure means of obtaining knowledge, with many citing the etymological connection between ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in ancient Greek as evidence for this. Seeing was also however often associated with mere appearances, false perception and deception. Gazing and visuality in the ancient Greek world have had a central place in the scholarship for some time now, enjoying an abundance of pertinent discussions and bibliography. If this book differs from the previous publications, it is in its emphasis on diverse genres: the concepts ‘gaze’, ‘vision’ and ‘visuality’ are considered across different Greek genres and media. The recipients of ancient Greek literature (both oral and written) were encouraged to perceive the narrated scenes as spectacles and to ‘follow the gaze’ of the characters in the narrative. By setting a broad time span, the evolution of visual culture in Greece is tracked, while also addressing broader topics such as theories of vision, the prominence of visuality in specific time periods, and the position of visuality in a hierarchisation of the senses.

Author : Ira Allen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822983422

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The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory by Ira Allen Pdf

Despite its centrality to its field, there is no consensus regarding what rhetorical theory is and why it matters. The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory presents a critical examination of rhetorical theory throughout history, in order to develop a unifying vision for the field. Demonstrating that theorists have always been skeptical of yet committed to "truth" (however fantastic), Ira Allen develops rigorous notions of truth and of a "troubled freedom" that spring from rhetoric’s depths. In a sweeping analysis from the sophists Aristotle, and Cicero through Kenneth Burke, Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyceta, and contemporary scholars in English, communication, and rhetoric’s other disciplinary homes, Allen offers a novel definition of rhetorical theory: as the self-consciously ethical study of how humans and other symbolic animals negotiate constraints.

Author : Giuseppe Ballacci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349952939

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Political Theory between Philosophy and Rhetoric by Giuseppe Ballacci Pdf

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy. It demonstrates how this relationship gives expression to a basic tension at the core of politics: that between the contingency of its happening and the transcendence toward which it strives. The first part of the study proposes a reassessment of the ancient quarrel between philosophy and rhetoric, as it was discussed by Plato, Aristotle, and above all Cicero and Quintilian, who ambitiously attempted to bring them together creating an ideal that is at the roots of the humanist tradition. It then moves to twentieth-century political theory and shows how the questions that emerge from that quarrel still strongly resonate in the works of key thinkers such as H. Arendt, L. Strauss, and R. Rorty. The volume thus offers an original contribution that locates itself at the intersection of politics, rhetoric, and philosophy.

Author : Thomas Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Greece
ISBN : UCSC:32106009691038

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The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece by Thomas Cole Pdf

Author : Evangelos Alexiou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110560145

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Greek Rhetoric of the 4th Century BC by Evangelos Alexiou Pdf

The interaction between orator and audience, the passions and distrust held by many concerning the predominance of one individual, but also the individual’s struggle as an advisor and political leader, these are the quintessential elements of 4th century rhetoric. As an individual personality, the orator draws strength from his audience, while the rhetorical texts mirror his own thoughts and those of his audience as part of a two-way relationship, in which individuality meets, opposes, and identifies with the masses. For the first time, this volume systematically compares minor orators with the major figures of rhetoric, Demosthenes and Isocrates, taking into account other findings as well, such as extracts of Hyperides from the Archimedes Palimpsest. Moreover, this book provides insight into the controversy surrounding the art of discourse in the rhetorical texts of Anaximenes, Aristotle, and especially of Isocrates who took up a clear stance against the philosophy of the 4th century.

Author : Robert J. Connors,Lisa S. Ede,Andrea A. Lunsford
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809311348

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Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse by Robert J. Connors,Lisa S. Ede,Andrea A. Lunsford Pdf

Eighteen essays by leading scholars in English, speech communication, educa­tion, and philosophy explore the vitality of the classical rhetorical tradition and its influence on both contemporary dis­course studies and the teaching of writing. Some of the essays investigate the­oretical and historical issues. Others show the bearing of classical rhetoric on contemporary problems in composition, thus blending theory and practice. Com­mon to the varied approaches and view­points expressed in this volume is one central theme: the 20th-century revival of rhetoric entails a recovery of the clas­sical tradition, with its marriage of a rich and fully articulated theory with an equally efficacious practice. A preface demonstrates the contribution of Ed­ward P. J.Corbett to the 20th-century re­vival, and a last chapter includes a bibli­ography of his works.

Author : Michael John MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199731596

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The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies by Michael John MacDonald Pdf

Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.

Author : Robin Reames
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226567013

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Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory by Robin Reames Pdf

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reames’s Seeming & Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Plato’s dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarship—the rise and subsequent marginalization of “orality and literacy theory,” Heidegger’s controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialogues—Reames demonstrates how the development of Plato’s rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood.

Author : John M. Duncan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004524033

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Rhetorical Adaptation in the Greek Historians, Josephus, and Acts vol.I by John M. Duncan Pdf

A detailed comparative analysis of speaker-audience interactions in Greek historiography, Josephus, and Acts that examines historians’ use of speeches as a means of instructing/persuading their readers and highlights Luke’s distinctive depiction of the apostles as adaptable yet frequently alienating orators.

Author : Rachel Ahern Knudsen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421412269

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Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric by Rachel Ahern Knudsen Pdf

Knudsen argues that Homeric epics are the locus for the origins of rhetoric. Traditionally, Homer's epics have been the domain of scholars and students interested in ancient Greek poetry, and Aristotle's rhetorical theory has been the domain of those interested in ancient rhetoric. Rachel Ahern Knudsen believes that this academic distinction between poetry and rhetoric should be challenged. Based on a close analysis of persuasive speeches in the Iliad, Knudsen argues that Homeric poetry displays a systematic and technical concept of rhetoric and that many Iliadic speakers in fact employ the rhetorical techniques put forward by Aristotle. Rhetoric, in its earliest formulation in ancient Greece, was conceived as the power to change a listener’s actions or attitudes through words—particularly through persuasive techniques and argumentation. Rhetoric was thus a “technical” discipline in the ancient Greek world, a craft (technê) that was rule-governed, learned, and taught. This technical understanding of rhetoric can be traced back to the works of Plato and Aristotle, which provide the earliest formal explanations of rhetoric. But do such explanations constitute the true origins of rhetoric as an identifiable, systematic practice? If not, where does a technique-driven rhetoric first appear in literary and social history? Perhaps the answer is in Homeric epics. Homeric Speech and the Origins of Rhetoric demonstrates a remarkable congruence between the rhetorical techniques used by Iliadic speakers and those collected in Aristotle's seminal treatise on rhetoric. Knudsen's claim has implications for the fields of both Homeric poetry and the history of rhetoric. In the former field, it refines and extends previous scholarship on direct speech in Homer by identifying a new dimension within Homeric speech—namely, the consistent deployment of well-defined rhetorical arguments and techniques. In the latter field, it challenges the traditional account of the development of rhetoric, probing the boundaries that currently demarcate its origins, history, and relationship to poetry.

Author : Marcin Kowalski
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780761861249

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Transforming Boasting of Self into Boasting in the Lord by Marcin Kowalski Pdf

This book uses rhetorical analysis to illuminate one of the most fascinating and complicated speeches by Saint Paul: 2 Cor 10–13. The main problem of the speech regards Paul’s claim to be a true servant of Christ and to have the right to boast about it. Paul proves he is strong enough to be the leader of Corinth and paradoxically demonstrates that weakness should belong to the identity of an apostle. Another issue regards the legitimacy of his boasting. The egocentric boast based on the comparison with his opponents is the one that Paul calls foolish, but he is forced, nevertheless, to undertake it. The tool that ultimately enables him to transform self-aggrandizing speech into speech that is focused on Christ is his paradoxical boasting of weakness. The careful crafting of his discourse based on Christological principles ultimately speaks for qualifying it as a self-praise speech (periautologia) with a pedagogical, not defensive, purpose.