Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
Title Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks PDF eBook
Author Carol S. Lipson
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 274
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 079148503X

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Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.

Bodily Arts

Bodily Arts
Title Bodily Arts PDF eBook
Author Debra Hawhee
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 241
Release 2013-09-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0292757026

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The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, one that was in essence "performed." Detailing how athletics came to be rhetoric's "twin art" in the bodily aspects of learning and performance, Bodily Arts draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medical treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, including statues and vases. Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual "mingling" of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, repetition, and response. Presenting her data against the backdrop of a broad cultural perspective rather than a narrow disciplinary one, Hawhee presents a pioneering interpretation of Greek civilization from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE by observing its citizens in action.

Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament

Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament
Title Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament PDF eBook
Author Mikeal Carl Parsons
Publisher
Pages 326
Release 2018
Genre Bible
ISBN 9781481306416

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For the ancient Greeks and Romans, eloquence was essential to public life and identity, perpetuating class status and power. The three-tiered study of rhetoric was thus designed to produce sons worthy of and equipped for public service. Rhetorical competency enabled the elite to occupy their proper place in society. The oracular and literary techniques represented in Greco-Roman education proved to be equally central to the formation of the New Testament. Detailed comparisons of the sophisticated rhetorical conventions, as cataloged in the ancient rhetorical handbooks (e.g., Quintilian), reveal to what degree and frequency the New Testament was shaped by ancient rhetoric's invention, argument, and style. But Ancient Rhetoric and the New Testament breaks new ground. Instead of focusing on more advanced rhetorical lessons that elite students received in their school rooms, Michael Martin and Mikeal Parsons examine the influence of the progymnasmata--the preliminary compositional exercises that bridge the gap between grammar and rhetoric proper--and their influence on the New Testament. Martin and Parsons use Theon's (50-100 CE) compendium as a baseline to measure the way primary exercises shed light on the form and style of the New Testament's composition. Each chapter examines a specific rhetorical exercise and its unique hortatory or instructional function, and offers examples from ancient literature before exploring the use of these techniques in the New Testament. --

Rhetoric in Antiquity

Rhetoric in Antiquity
Title Rhetoric in Antiquity PDF eBook
Author Laurent Pernot
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 287
Release 2005
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0813214076

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Originally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics

Alternative Rhetorics

Alternative Rhetorics
Title Alternative Rhetorics PDF eBook
Author Laura Gray-Rosendale
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 284
Release 2001-04-19
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780791449745

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Challenges the traditional rhetorical canon.

Rhetoric in the European Tradition

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Title Rhetoric in the European Tradition PDF eBook
Author Thomas Conley
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 336
Release 1994
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0226114899

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Rhetoric in the European Tradition provides a survey for the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks to the twentieth century. Discussing rhetorical theories in the context of the times of political and intellectual crisis that gave rise to them, Thomas Conley chooses carefully from the vast pool of rhetorical literature to give voice to those authors who exercised influence in their own and succeeding generations.

You Talkin' To Me?

You Talkin' To Me?
Title You Talkin' To Me? PDF eBook
Author Sam Leith
Publisher Profile Books
Pages 304
Release 2011-10-20
Genre Humor
ISBN 1847654258

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Rhetoric gives our words the power to inspire. But it's not just for politicians: it's all around us, whether you're buttering up a key client or persuading your children to eat their greens. You have been using rhetoric yourself, all your life. After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don't you? In this updated edition of his classic guide, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece down to its many modern mutations. He introduces verbal villains from Hitler to Donald Trump - and the three musketeers: ethos, pathos and logos. He explains how rhetoric works in speeches from Cicero to Richard Nixon, and pays tribute to the rhetorical brilliance of AC/DC's "Back In Black". Before you know it, you'll be confident in chiasmus and proud of your panegyrics - because rhetoric is useful, relevant and absolutely nothing to be afraid of.