Rhetoric : an historical introduction /

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Main Author: Olmsted, Wendy, 1943-
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.