This exceptional collection of writings offers for the first time a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion illuminate and challenge each other. The contributors to the volume are eminent theorists and critics in rhetoric, theology, and religion, and they address a variety of problems and periods. Together these writings shed light on religion as a human quest and rhetoric as the origin and sustainer of that quest. They show that when pursued with intelligence and sensitivity, rhetorical approaches to religion are capable of revitalizing both...
This exceptional collection of writings offers for the first time a discussion among leading thinkers about the points at which rhetoric and religion ...
Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmsted examines a broad range of Renaissance and Reformation sources, all of which aim to cultivate 'emotional intelligence' through rhetorical means, with a view to understanding how emotion functions in these texts. In the works of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), John Milton (1608-1674), and many others, characters are depicted conversing with one another about their emotions. While counselors appeal to objective reasons for feeling a certain way,...
Many writers in early modern England drew on the rhetorical tradition to explore affective experience. In The Imperfect Friend, Wendy Olmste...
This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts.
An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists
Texts range from Cicero's De oratoreand Augustine's On Christian Doctrineto Jane Austen's Persuasionand Stephen Greenblatt's Marvellous Possessions
Texts serve simultaneously as works of...
This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic...
This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts.
An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists
Texts range from Cicero's De oratoreand Augustine's On Christian Doctrineto Jane Austen's Persuasionand Stephen Greenblatt's Marvellous Possessions
Texts serve simultaneously as works of...
This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic...
A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines.
Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe.
Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures.
Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day.
Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.
A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theor...
