Author : Walter Jost
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0470999845
A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric’s place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.
Author : Ian Worthington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 144433414X
This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English
Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 2009-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1139827804
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.
Author : Michael John MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199731594
Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.
Author : Barry Brummett
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 150631564X
Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Fifth Edition, shows readers how to apply growing and cutting-edge methods of critical studies to a full spectrum of contemporary issues seen in daily life. Exploring a wide range of mass media including current movies, magazines, advertisements, social networking sites, music videos, and television shows, Barry Brummett uses critical analysis to apply key rhetorical concepts to a variety of exciting examples drawn from popular culture. Readers are guided from theory to practice in an easy-to-understand manner, providing them with a foundational understanding of the definition and history of rhetoric as well as new approaches to the rhetorical tradition. Ideal for courses in rhetorical criticism, the highly anticipated Fifth Edition includes new critical essays and case studies that demonstrate for readers how the critical methods discussed can be used to study the hidden rhetoric of popular culture.
Author : Jim A. Kuypers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1442252731
Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an example to model when writing their own criticism, and address the potentials and pitfalls of the approach. In addition to covering traditional modes of rhetorical criticism, the volume presents less commonly discussed rhetorical perspectives, exposing students to a wide cross-section of techniques.
Author : Dann L. Pierce
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
A class-tested first edition focusing on core areas of rhetorical research, such as metaphor, narrative, visual persuasion, ideology, and politics, with the intent of acquainting undergraduate students with a broad, accessible understanding of ideas, analytic frames, and examples of human language use. This textbook is written as a springboard for more sophisticated study, and also strives to connect the material to "message-making" in communication-related professions
Author : James Phelan
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814206883
The rhetorical theory of narrative that emerges from these investigations emphasizes the recursive relationships between authorial agency, textual phenomena, and reader response, even as it remains open to insights from a range of critical approaches - including feminism, psychoanalysis, Bakhtinian linguistics, and cultural studies. The rhetorical criticism Phelan advocates and employs seeks, above all, to attend carefully to the multiple demands of reading sophisticated narrative; for that reason, his rhetorical theory moves less toward predictions about the relationships between techniques, ethics, and ideologies and more toward developing some principles and concepts that allow us to recognize the complex diversity of narrative art.
Author : Walter Jost
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780813922492
Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them.
Author : Sonja K. Foss
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1478636009
Over multiple editions, this transformative text has taught the lively art of rhetorical criticism to thousands of students at more than 300 colleges and universities. Insights from classroom use enrich each new edition. With an unparalleled talent for distilling sophisticated rhetorical concepts and processes, Sonja Foss highlights ten methods of doing rhetorical criticism—the systematic investigation and explanation of symbolic acts and artifacts. Each chapter focuses on one method, its foundational theories, and the steps necessary to perform an analysis using that method. Foss provides instructions on how to write coherent, well-argued reports of analytical findings, which are then illustrated by sample essays. A chapter on feminist criticism features the disruption of conventional ideologies and practices. Storytelling in the digital world is a timely addition to the chapter on narrative criticism. Student essays now include analyses of the same artifact using multiple methods. A deep understanding of rhetorical criticism equips readers to become engaged and active participants in shaping the nature of the worlds in which we live.
