The History and Theory of Rhetoric: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367429294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 324 str.

James A. Herrick

Opis

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media.

Spis treści

1. An Overview of Rhetoric 2. The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric 3. Plato versus the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial 4. Aristotle on Rhetoric 5. Rhetoric at Rome 6. Rhetoric in Christian Europe and North Africa 7. Rhetoric in the Renaissance 8. Enlightenment Rhetoric 9. Contemporary RhetoricI: Arguments, Audiences, and Science 10. Contemporary Rhetoric II: Narrative, Display, and Objects 11. Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, and Alternatives

O autorze

James A. Herrick is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Hope College, USA. His publications include Argumentation: Understanding and Shaping Arguments, 6th edition (2017) and Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future (2017).