Ancient non-Greek rhetorics
By: edited by Carol S. Lipson, Roberta A. Binkley.
Contributors: Lipson, Carol.; Binkley, Roberta A., 1941-
Series: Lauer series in rhetoric and composition
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: West Lafayette, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781602350953; 9781602350946; 9781602350960
Subjects: Rhetoric, Ancient; Rhetoric -- History
Description: "Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the ancient Near East more generally, Israel, Japan, India, and ancient Ireland. The ten essays examine rhetorics as broadly construed, analyzing texts, addressing silence, as well as considering the placement and use of texts as part of multimedia cultural communication, involving ritual along with oral, visual, sensual, experiential, and architectural elements and performances"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carol S. Lipson; title: Religious rhetoric of the ancient Eear East; title: Ritual rhetoric in ancient near eastern texts / James W. Watts; title: The gendering of prophetic discourse : women and prophecy in the ancient Near East / Roberta Binkley; title: Rhetoric and identity : a study of ancient Egyptian non-royal tombs and tomb autobiographies / Carol S. Lipson; title: The Hebrew Bible as another, Jewish sophistic : a genesis of absence and desire in ancient rhetoric / Steven B. Katz; title: Rhetorical studies of the ancient Far East; title: Reading the heavenly mandate :Dong Zhongshu's Rhetoric of the way (Dao) / Yichun Liu and Xiaoye You; title: "Why do the rulers listen to the wild theories of speech-makers?" or wuwei (non-action), shi (position/power) and methods of comparative rhetoric / Arabella Lyon; title: The right use of true words : Shinto and Shingon Buddhist rhetoric in ancient Japan / Kathy Wolfe; title: Rhetoric from ancient India; title: Storytelling as soul-tuning : the ancient rhetoric of Valmiki's Ramayana / Mari Lee Mifsud; title: Argument in classical Indian philosophy : the case of Sankara's Advaita vedanta / Scott R. Stroud; title: An ancient western non-Greek rhetoric : ancient Ireland; title: Orality, magic, and myth in ancient Irish rhetoric / Richard Johnson-Sheehan.