Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece

Name: Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece
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ISBN: 9780300075908

ISBN-10: 0300075901

ISBN-13: 9780300075908

Edition: 1999

Authors: Edward Schiappa

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In this text, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists in the fifth century B.C.E., as is commonly believed, but came into being a century later.

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/11/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.94" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Note on Translations and Abbreviations



Reconstructing the Origins of Rhetorical Theory



The Standard Account of Rhetoric's Beginnings



The Origins of the Word Rhetorike: What Does It Matter?



"Technical Rhetoric" Reconsidered



"Sophistic Rhetoric" Reconsidered



"Philosophical Rhetoric" Reconsidered



Gorgias and the Disciplining of Discourse: Three Studies



Gorgias' Composition Style



Rereading Gorgias' Helen



Rhetoric and Philosophy in On Not Being



Fourth-Century Disciplinary Efforts: Three Studies



Early Use of the Terms Rhetoreia and Rhetoreuein



Isocrates' Philosophia



Aristotle's Disciplining of Epideictic


References


Index