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The Cambridge companion to ancient rhetoric / edited by Erik Gunderson. [electronic resource]
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description
1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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Editor
Gunderson, Erik
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Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Summary note
Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-332) and indexes.
Language note
English
Contents
Fighting words : status, stature, and verbal contest in archaic poetry / Nancy Worman
The philosophy of rhetoric and the rhetoric of philosophy / Robert Wardy
Codifications of rhetoric / Malcolm Heath
Divisions of speech / Catherine Steel
Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the voice / James Porter
The rhetoric of rhetorical theory / Erik Gunderson
The politics of rhetorical education / Joy Connolly
Types of oratory / Jon Hesk
Rhetoric of the Athenian citizen / Victoria Wohl
Rhetoric and the Roman Republic / John Dugan
Staging rhetoric in Athens / David Rosenbloom
The drama of rhetoric at Rome / William Batstone
Rhetoric and the Second Sophistic / Simon Goldhill
Rhetorical practice and performance in early Christianity / Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele
Rediscoveries of classical rhetoric / Peter Mack
The runaround : a volume retrospect on ancient rhetorics / John Henderson.
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Cambridge companions online.
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1-139-80133-3
1-139-00256-2
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