Rhetoric : an historical introduction /
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- The rhetorician : demagogue or statesman? Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric
- Eloquence, persuasion, and invention : Cicero's De oratore
- Rhetoric and the search for God : Augustine's On Christian doctrine and confessions
- Practical reason or self-interested calculation? : Cicero's On duties and Machiavelli's Prince
- Tradition and invention : Bacon's aphorisms and the Essays
- Deception, strong speech, and mild discourse in Milton's early prose and Paradise lost
- Prudence and eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion
- Literary criticism and rhetorical invention : Wayne C. Booth's The rhetoric of fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous possessions
- Faction, and politics, and rhetorical invention : Eugene Garver's For the sake of argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to strangers
- Legal reasoning, historical contingency, and change : Edward H. Levi's An introduction to legal reasoning.