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This reference provides critical overviews and bibliographic information for all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the eighteenth century.
Author : Michael G. Moran
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 1994-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0313279098
This reference provides critical overviews and bibliographic information for all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the eighteenth century.
Author : Michael G. Moran
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1994-06-20
Category : History
ISBN :
This reference provides critical overviews and bibliographic information for all major and many minor British and American rhetoricians of the eighteenth century.
Author : Michelle Ballif
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : History
ISBN :
Alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 60 leading rhetoricians of antiquity detail their lives and writings and cite works for further reading.
Author : Paul Goring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139456768
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. Paul Goring shows how diverse writers and performers including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence - bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values.
Author : H. Lewis Ulman
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809319077
Ulman examines the role of grammar and theories of language in the formation of eighteenth-century rhetorical theory, investigating the significance of language theory for such key concerns of eighteenth-century rhetoric as verbal criticism, style, taste, and elocution.
Author : Thomas O. Sloane
Publisher :
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN : 0195125959
The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of the latest research--as well as the foundational teachings--in this broad field. Featuring 150 original, signed articles by leading scholars from many different fields of study it brings together knowledge from classics, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech and communications. The Encyclopedia surveys basic concepts (speaker, style and audience); elements; genres; terms (fallacies, figures of speech); and the rhetoric of non-Western cultures and cultural movements. It covers rhetoric as the art of proof and persuasion; as the language of public speech and communication; and as a theoretical approach and critical tool used in the study of literature, art, and culture at large, including new forms of communication such as the internet. The Encyclopedia is the most wide ranging reference work of its kind, combining theory, history, and practice, with a special emphasis on public speaking, performance and communication. Cross-references, bibliographies after each article, and synoptic and topical indexes further enhance the work. Written for students, teachers, scholars and writers the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is the definitive reference work on this powerful discipline.
Author : Lynée Lewis Gaillet
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826218687
Introduces new scholars to interdisciplinary research by utilizing bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works that address the history of rhetoric, from the Classical period to the 21st century.
Author : Yasmin Solomonescu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 36,24 MB
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192678663
While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased to be the seemingly self-evident objective of rhetoric and became, instead, a variable and substantive focus for discussion in its own right. After rhetoric ceded much of its centrality to logic and empirical procedures, the significance and implications of persuasion were the subject of renewed attention in a range of different fields, including philosophy, law, poetry, novels, botany, cultural criticism, historiography, political thought, and public lecturing. Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism maps how values of persuasion were adapted and diversified in ways that still resonate with current arguments about conviction, understanding, and belief. Contributors address the figurations of persuasion in a range of theorists and writers, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Mary Wollstonecraft, to Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Campbell, William Hazlitt, Heinrich Heine, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. This collection offers a detailed account of persuasive interests at the threshold of modernity. It also prompts us to rethink persuasion now that its continued efficacy seems at risk in a fragmented public sphere.
Author : Theresa Enos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135816069
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521590389
The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the subject began in eighteenth-century Scottish universities before being exported to America and other countries. The emergence of English as an institutionalised university subject was linked to the search for distinctive cultural identities throughout the English-speaking world. This book explores the role the discipline played in administering restraints on the expression of indigenous literary forms, and shows how the growing professionalisation of English as a subject offered a breeding ground for academics and writers with an interest in native identity and cultural nationalism. This book is a comprehensive account of the historical origins of the university subject of English literature and provides a wealth of new material on its particular Scottish provenance.