num_pages: 144
description: This volume explores the fascinating aesthetic and social connectionbetween drama and rhetoric.Inasmuch as drama seeks to keep an audience engaged, it takes on rhetoricalqualities; likewise, rhetorical endeavor may employ dramatic appeal. Centuriesago, Aristotle's companion pieces The Rhetoric and The Poeticgenerated crosscurrents of critical thought about rhetorical and dramatictheory. Recently, such critic-theorists as Kenneth Burke, Ernest Bormann,Elder Olson, Paul de Man, and others have stirred up these currents afresh.The contributors to this volume take provocative new approaches to enduringissues.****Contents ****PART Rhetorical Dimensions to the The ClassicalContextEnthymeme and the Invention of Troping in Greek Drama , August W.StaubTheorizing the A Rhetorical Analysis of Tragic Recognition ,Tom HeeneyExile and the Reason as Nightmare in the AeschyleanVision , John ArthosPART The Rhetorical in Renaissance and Neoclassical DramaEpideictic Rhetorical Tensions in the Staging of Torquato Tasso'sAminta , Maria Galli StampinoShakespeare's Rhetoric versus the Ideologyof Ian McKellen's Richard III , George L. GeckleAnd Now for Venice Preserv'd and the Rhetoric of Textual Application , Odai JohnsonPART War, Politics, and the DramaFederalist and RepublicanTheatre in the 1790s , Steve WilmerUncle Tom's Cabin and the Rhetoric ofGradualism , Charles WilbanksDario Fo's Angry Farce , Stanley Vincent LongmanPART Contemporary CultureStain upon the SamuelBeckett's Deconstructive Inventions , Leigh Anne HowardStill Angry afterAll These Performing the Language of HIV and the Marked Body inThe Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me, Peter Michael Pober
language: English
title: Theatre Symposium, Vol. 5: Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama: An Exploration of Dramatic and Rhetorical Criticism
titlecomplete: Theatre Symposium, Vol. 5: Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama: An Exploration of Dramatic and Rhetorical Criticism (Theatre Symposium Series)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: University Alabama Press