Rhetoric in European Culture and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric in European Culture and Beyond write by Jiří Kraus . This book was released on 2015-03-01. Rhetoric in European Culture and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book, Rhetoric in European and World Culture, defines the position of rhetoric in the cultural and educational systems from ancient times through the present. It examines the decline of its importance in a period of rationalism and enlightenment, presents the causes of why rhetoric (reduced to a system of rhetorical tricks) came to have negative connotations, and explains why rhetoric in the 20th century was able to regain its position. It demonstrates that the prestige of rhetoric sharply falls when it is reduced to a refined method for deceiving the public, and increases when it is seen as a scientific discipline that is used throughout all of the fields of the humanities - philosophy, logic, semiotics, literary science, linguistics, the science of media and others. In this sense, rhetoric strives for universal recognition and the cultivation of rhetorical expression, spoken and written, including not only its production but also reception and interpretation. In such a renaissance of interest, rhetoric appears not merely as a guide to language skills, but as a complex theoretical field examining human behaviour in social communication. Chapters 1-9 describe the development of rhetoric from its Greek, Hellenic and Roman beginnings to rhetoric in the context of medieval Christian culture, later during the periods of humanism, Enlightenment, baroque. The final chapter is concerned with rhetoric in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It takes into account geography, including the history of rhetoric in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Scotland, Poland, Russia, the Czech Lands, Moravia, Slovakia and from the 19th century in the United States. The final chapter presents an answer to the question of whether corresponding systems of rhetorical knowledge have been formed beyond the borders of Mediterranean antiquity. The selected examples of theoretical works on "the art of speech" from India, the Middle East, China, Korea and Japan show that each language community forms its own concept, theory and practice of persuasive and suggestive speaking behaviours. Often such findings, instead of being used as manuals for the stylization and presentation of speeches, rather concentrate on analyzing written documents, in which we can find not only specific categorical devices of the given culture (as is the case with comments on the Vedic texts of ancient India) but also tropes and figures characteristic of Greek and Roman rhetoric, e.g., the Hebrew and Aramaic texts of the Old Testament.
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates
The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates write by Yun Lee Too. This book was released on 2009-12-10. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates provides an interpretation of an important, but largely neglected and disregarded, fourth-century Athenian author to show how he uses writing to provide a model of political engagement that is distinct from his own contemporaries' (especially Plato's) and from our own notions of political involvement. It demonstrates that ancient rhetorical discourse raises issues of contemporary relevance, especially regarding the status of the written word and current debates on canon and curriculum in education.
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle write by Ekaterina V. Haskins. This book was released on 2004. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. It argues that much of what Aristotle said about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse may have been a reaction to Isocrates.
Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece write by John Poulakos. This book was released on 2012-12-07. Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable. In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos argues that a proper understanding of sophistical rhetoric requires a grasp of three cultural dynamics of the fifth century B.C.: the logic of circumstances, the ethic of competition, and the aesthetic of exhibition. Traced to such phenomena as everyday practices, athletic contests, and dramatic performances, these dynamics defined the role of sophistical rhetoric in Hellenic culture and explain why sophistry has traditionally been understood as inconsistent, agonistic, and ostentatious. In his discussion of ancient responses to sophistical rhetoric, Poulakos observes that Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found sophistry morally reprehensible, politically useless, and theoretically incoherent. At the same time, they produced their own version of rhetoric that advocated ethical integrity, political unification, and theoretical coherence. Poulakos explains that these responses and alternative versions were motivated by a search for solutions to such historical problems as moral uncertainty, political instability, and social disorder. Poulakos concludes that sophistical rhetoric was as necessary in its day as its Platonic, Isocratean, and Aristotelian counterparts were in theirs.
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition write by Laura Viidebaum. This book was released on 2021-11-18. Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new account of the emergence of the ancient rhetorical tradition, from Classical Athens to Augustan Rome.
