| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction, Ancient concept of kairos / Phillip Sipiora -- New chapter in the history of rhetoric and Sophistry / Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora -- Time and qualitative time / John E. Smith -- Kairos in classical and modern rhetorical theory / James L. Kinneavy -- Inventional constraints on the technographers of ancient Athens : a study of kairos / Richard Leo Enos -- Kairos in Gorgias' rhetorical compositions / John Poulakos -- Hippocrates, kairos, and writing in the sciences / Catherine R. Eskin -- Kairos : the rhetoric of time and timing in the New Testament / Phillip Sipiora -- Kairos and decorum : Crassus Orator's speech de lege Servilia / Joseph J. Hughes -- Ciceronian decorum and the temporalities of Renaissance rhetoric / James S. Baumlin -- Chronos, kairos, aion : failures of decorum, right-timing, and revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet / James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American kairos / Roger Thompson -- In praise of kairos in the arts : critical time, East and West / Gregory Mason -- Changing times in composition classes : kairos, resonance, and the Pythagorean connection / Carolyn Eriksen Hill -- On doing the right thing at the right time : toward an ethics of kairos / Amélie Frost Benedikt -- Bibliography on kairos and related concepts / Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin |
| Summary |
This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric. Augusto Rostagni, James L. Kinneavy, Richard Leo Enos, John Poulakos, a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rhetoric
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Kairos (The Greek word)
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rhetoric (discipline)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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Kairos (The Greek word)
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Rhetoric
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Rhetoric, Ancient
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sipiora, Phillip
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Baumlin, James S
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| LC no. |
2001049284 |
| ISBN |
0585442525 |
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9780585442525 |
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0791452336 |
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9780791452332 |
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0791452344 |
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9780791452349 |
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0791489388 |
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9780791489383 |
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