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Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks Eds. Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley
With the call in Octolog II to look for rhetoric in cultural locations unpreviously examined, Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks attempts to explore rhetoric before and beyond the limited scope of Athenian rhetoric in ways that do not reify … Continue reading
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Manifesto for Social Histories of Rhetoric
Manifesto: Why Study and Write Social Histories of Rhetoric?” If we define social histories as the histories of everyday lives which haven’t been typically represented in mainstream histories, then I am assuming social histories of rhetoric(s) pertains to the use … Continue reading
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“Seeing Ancient Rhetoric, Easily at a Glance” James Fredal
In this article, Fredal, utimately concerned with limiting definitions of rhetoric for our postmodern world, defines rhetoric as “the exchange of meaning within a social system through which meaning, culture, identity, knowledge and practice are produced and circulated” (183). In … Continue reading
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“Speech is a Powerful Lord” Johnstone
In this article, Johnstone confirms Gorgia’s assertions about the magical effects of oratory rhetoric in ENCOMIUM OF HELEN with evidence from contemporary research in pscyho-phisiology. After presenting research positing that (as Gorgias understood and articulated) oral langauge has cognitive and emotional effects on a listener, … Continue reading
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Summary of “Rhetoric and Civic Virtue” — Janet Atwill
In “Rhetoric and Civic Virtue,” Janet Atwill revisits the concept of “civic virtue” as it was conceived in fifth and fourth-century Greek political and philosophical thought and claims that civic virtue was in fact a contested term dependent on the … Continue reading
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Summary “Choosing Between Isocrates and Artistotle” — Haskins
In “Choosing Between Isocrates and Artistotle,” Haskins attempts to dispel several assumptions that support and maintain Aristotelian rhetoric as the apex of the classical Greek rhetorical tradition. Haskins worries that rhetoric students are being taught that classical rhetoric is a … Continue reading
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Isocrates
Notes: Opened first school of rhetoric in Athens. One of Ten Attic Orators. Talent in speech writing for publication, not delivery. Style is antithetical and symmetrical but not aural . Developed periodic sentence. Saw purpose of rhetoric to address immediate … Continue reading
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Response to Edwin Black’s “Plato’s View of Rhetoric” and Charles Kauffman’s “The Axiological Foundations of Plato’s Theory of Rhetoric”
Working against the notion that Plato’s definition of rhetoric is inconsistent in Gorgias and Phaedrus yet in consensus that a single theme exists in Gorgias and Phaedrus, Edwin Black is determined to elucidate how rhetoric is defined in both of … Continue reading
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