Rhetoric in the European TraditionRhetoric in the European Tradition provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the twentieth century. Discussing rhetorical theories and practices in the context of the times of political and intellectual crisis that gave rise to them, Thomas M. Conley chooses carefully from a vast pool of rhetorical literature to give voice to those authors who exercised the greatest influence in their own and succeeding generations. This book is valuable as both an introduction for students and a reference and resource for scholars in fields including literature, cultural history, philosophy, and speech and communication studies. |
Contents
Chapter 1 Classical Greek Rhetorics | 1 |
Chapter 2 Hellenistic and Roman Rhetorics | 29 |
Chapter 3 Late Classical and Medieval Greek Rhetorics Hermogenes Works | 53 |
Chapter 4 Rhetoric in the Latin Middle Ages | 72 |
Chapter 5 Rhetoric and Renaissance Humanism | 109 |
Chapter 6 Rhetoric in the Seventeenth Century | 151 |
Chapter 7EighteenthCentury Rhetorics | 188 |
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