The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present

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The Rhetorical Tradition — the first comprehensive anthology of primary texts covering the history of rhetoric — examines rhetorical theory from classical antiquity through the modern period. Extensive editorial material makes it an essential text for the beginning student as well as the professional scholar. About this Book Cover Page Inside Front Cover Title Page Copyright Page Preface Contents General Introduction The Origins and Aims of Rhetoric The Classical System of Ancient Rhetoric Types of Rhetorical Discourse The Preparation of a Speech The Influence of the Classical System Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric Rhetoric in the Middle Ages Rhetoric in the Renaissance Modern Rhetoric New Science, Epistemology, and Rhetoric Public Discourse by Women Rhetoric and Empiricism in Britain Universal Rights from Britain to the Americas Contemporary Rhetoric The Poetics and Logic of New Rhetoric The Linguistic Turn Part One: Ancient Rhetoric Introduction The Sophistic Movement Isocrates and Education in Rhetoric Aspasia and Women in Greek Society Plato: True and False Rhetoric Aristotle: Systematic Rhetoric The Rise of Rome and the Rhetoric of Cicero From Imperial Rome to the Second Sophistic Selected Bibliography Heraclitus Selected Fragments Gorgias Encomium of Helen Aspasia Menexenus (by Plato) Anonymous Dissoi logoi Alcidamas On Those Who Write Written Speeches Isocrates Against the Sophists From Antidosis Plato Gorgias Phaedrus Aristotle From Rhetoric Anonymous From Rhetorica ad Herennium Cicero From De inventione From De oratore From Orator Longinus From On the Sublime Quintilian From Institutes of Oratory Hermogenes From On Stases Flavius Philostratus Julia Domna of Syria From Lives of the Sophists Letter to Julia Domna Nāgārjuna From The Dispeller of Disputes Part Two: Medieval and Renaissance Rhetoric Introduction Christian Treatments of Rhetoric to 1000 C.E. Islamic Rhetoric CA. 700–1200 C.E. The “Renaissance” of the Twelfth Century The Rise of the University The Arts of Poetry, Letter Writing, and Preaching Rhetoric in the Renaissance Rhetoric and Italian Humanism Italian Women Humanists Humanism in Northern Europe: Agricola, Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Ramus Humanism and Rhetoric in England Toward a New Science Selected Bibliography Augustine De magistro, or Concerning the Teacher From On Christian Doctrine Boethius From An Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric Bede On Schemes and Tropes Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī From Book of Rhetoric Peter Abelard and Héloïse Selected Letters Anna Comnena From The Alexiad Geoffrey of Vinsauf From Poetria nova Thomas of Chobham From Summa de arte praedicandi Anonymous From Tria sunt Christine de Pizan From The Book of the City of Ladies From The Treasure of the City of Ladies Rabbi Judah Messer Leon From The Book of the Honeycomb’s Flow Rudolph Agricola From De inventione dialectica Desiderius Erasmus From On Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style From De conscribendis epistolis Philipp Melanchthon The Praise of Eloquence Baldesar Castiglione From The Book of the Courtier Peter Ramus From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintilian Thomas Wilson From The Art of Rhetoric Cyprian Soarez, S.J. From De arte rhetorica libri tres Francis Bacon From The Advancement of Learning From Novum organum Part Three: Modern Rhetoric Introduction Rhetoric in the Modern Era: An Overview Scientific Certainty and Rhetorical Probability Rhetoric and Rationalism in Continental Europe Port-Royal Grammar and Logic Belle Lettres and French Rhetoric Women’s Education and Speech in the Modern Era British Empiricism and the Place of Rhetoric The Royal Society of London and the Critique of Rhetoric The Elocutionary Movement Neoclassical Philosophical Rhetoric Rhetoric and the Scottish Enlightenment Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Belletrism David Hume, George Campbell, and Epistemological Rhetoric Hume’s Influence on the Continent: Kant and the Linguistic Turn Nineteenth-Century Britain Richard Whately, Herbert Spencer, and Alexander Bain Rhetoric in America Rhetoric and Revolution Emancipatory Rhetoric in America The Rhetoric of Composition Selected Bibliography Margaret Fell Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by the Scriptures Madeleine de Scudéry On Speaking Too Much or Too Little, and How to Speak Well Conversation on the Manner of Writing Letters John Locke From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Mary Astell From A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II Giambattista Vico From On the Study Methods of Our Time From The Art of Rhetoric David Hume Of Eloquence Adam Smith From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Thomas Sheridan From A Course of Lectures on Elocution John Witherspoon From Lectures on Eloquence George Campbell From The Philosophy of Rhetoric Hugh Blair From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Molly Wallace Priscilla Mason From The Valedictory Oration of Molly Wallace The Salutatory Oration of Priscilla Mason Gilbert Austin From Chironomia Richard Whately From Elements of Rhetoric Maria W. Stewart Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall Mrs. Stewart’s Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston Frederick Douglass From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass From My Bondage and My Freedom Herbert Spencer From The Philosophy of Style Alexander Bain From English Composition and Rhetoric Part Four: Contemporary Rhetoric Introduction The New Rhetoric: Literature and Criticism The Rhetoric of Poetics: Kenneth Burke, Richard Weaver, Wayne Booth Formalism and New Criticism: Mikhail Bakhtin and I. A. Richards Rhetoric and New Media: Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong The New Rhetoric: Logic and Argument Chaïm Perelman, Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, and Stephen Toulmin The Rhetorical Turn in Anglo-American Philosophy Metaphor and the Rhetorical Basis of Language The Linguistic Turn in Continental Thought Phenomenology and Language: Martin Heidegger Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Deconstruction Political and Critical Theory Rhetoric, Composition, and Speech Communication The Reach of Rhetoric Selected Bibliography Friedrich Nietzsche On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense Gertrude Buck The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory I. A. Richards From The Philosophy of Rhetoric Martin Heidegger The Way to Language Mikhail Bakhtin From The Problem of Speech Genres Kenneth Burke From A Grammar of Motives From A Rhetoric of Motives From Language as Symbolic Action J. L. Austin From How to do things with words Chaïm Perelman Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca From The New Rhetoric Stephen Toulmin From The Uses of Argument Hannah Arendt From The Human Condition Richard Weaver Language Is Sermonic Jürgen Habermas From Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Michel Foucault From The Order of Discourse From Discourse and Truth Jacques Derrida From Dissemination Wayne C. Booth From Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent Hélène Cixous The Laugh of the Medusa George Lakoff Mark Johnson From Metaphors We Live By Walter J. Ong, S.J. From Orality and Literacy Gloria Anzaldúa From Borderlands/La frontera Henry Louis Gates Jr. From The Signifying Monkey Glossary Acknowledgments Index Inside Back Cover Back Cover