Rhetoric in the European Tradition

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University of Chicago Press, 1994 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 325 pages
Rhetoric 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
Chapter 8 Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century
235
Chapter 9 Rhetoric after the Great War
260
Chapter 10 Philosophers Turn to Rhetoric
285
Chronological Tables
311
Glossary
316
Index
319
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Thomas M. Conley is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Rhetoric in the European Tradition, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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