Rhetoric
Subtitle: an historical introduction
By: Wendy Olmsted.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781405117722; 9781405117739
Subjects: Rhetoric -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rhetorician, demagogue or statesman? : Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric; title: Invention, eloquence, and persuasion : Cicero's De oratore; title: Rhetoric and the search for God : Augustine's Christian doctrine and confessions; title: Practical reason or self-interested calculation? : Cicero's On duties and Machiavelli's Prince; title: Tradition and invention : Bacon's aphorisms and the essays; title: Deception, strong speech, and mild conversation in Milton's early prose and Paradise lost; title: Prudence and eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion; title: Literary criticism and rhetorical invention : Wayne C. Booth's The rhetoric of fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous possessions; title: Persuasion, faction, and politics : Eugene Garver's For the sake of argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to strangers; title: Legal reasoning, historical contingency, and change : Edward H. Levi's An introduction to legal reasoning.