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Title Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric / edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer
Published Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages)
Contents Aristotle's Rhetoric and the contemporary arts of practical discourse / Robert N. Gaines -- What Aristotle meant by rhetoric / Alan G. Gross -- Aristotle on speaking "outside the subject": the special topics and rhetorical forums / Arthur E. Walzer -- The contemporary irrelevance of Aristotle's practical reason / Eugene Garver -- Pathos and Katharsis in "Aristotelian" rhetoric: some implications / Jeffrey Walker -- Aristotle's Enthymeme as tacit reference / Thomas B. Farrell -- Two systems of invention: the topics in the Rhetoric and the New rhetoric / Barbara Warnick -- The Aristotelian topos: hunting for novelty / Carolyn R. Miller -- Aristotelian Lexis and renaissance Elocutio / Lawrence D. Green -- Aristotle and theories of figuration / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Aristotle's Rhetoric: a guide to the scholarship / Arthur E. Walzer, Michael Tiffany, and Alan G. Gross
Summary In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to "reread" Aristotle's Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, that a core tenet in this book is that "all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work."The essays reflect on questions basic to rhetoric as a humanistic discipline. Some explore the ways in which the Rhetoric explicates the natur
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index
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Subject Aristotle. Rhetoric.
Aristoteles. De arte rhetorica.
SUBJECT Rhetoric (Aristotle) fast
Subject Rhetoric, Ancient.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Speech.
Rhetoric, Ancient
Rhetorica (Aristoteles)
Form Electronic book
Author Gross, Alan G
Walzer, Arthur E., 1944-
ISBN 0585313644
9780585313641
9780809387236
0809387239
080932847X
9780809328475