David M. Timmerman, Edward Schiappa

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory and the Disciplining of Discourse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how key terms helped to conceptualise and organise the study and teaching of oratory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780521195188
• ISBN-10: 0521195187
• Artikelnr.: 28530050

Autorenporträt

David Timmerman is Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of Humanities and Fine Arts at Wabash College. He is co-editor of Rhetoric and Democracy: Pedagogical and Political Practices and has contributed to Philosophy and Rhetoric, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Advances in the History of Rhetoric.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: terms of art as a focus in the history of rhetorical theory
2. Dialegesthai as a term of art: Plato and the disciplining of dialectic
3. Philosophia as a term of art: recovering Isocrates
4. Terms of art for political deliberation: demegoria and sumboule
5. Terms of art and the interpretation of texts: the disciplinary status of the Rhetoric to Alexander
6. Terms of art and inferring rhetorical theory: when did the parts of a speech become formalized?
7. Epilogue.