Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition /

What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? In this thought-provoking book, James L. Kastely examines works by writers from Plato to Jane Austen and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice. While dealing principally wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedmann, Michael L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1997]
Temas:
Philosophy > Authorship.
Postmodernism.
Rhetoric > Philosophy > History.
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Refutation: Rhetoric as a Philosophical Problem
  • PART I. Socratic and Tragic Skepticism
  • 2. In Defense of Plato's Gorgias
  • 3. Persuasion and Refutation Meno's Challenge
  • 4. Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Crisis of Rhetoric
  • 5. Violence and Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba
  • PART II. Classical Skepticism and Postmodern Rhetoric
  • Briefly Rethinking the Fate of Rhetoric
  • 6. Persuasion: Jane Austen's Philosophical Rhetoric
  • 7. Refuting Sartre: Modernism's Equivocation on the Reader
  • 8. Refuting de Man
  • 9. Rhetoric and Ideology
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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