AuthorGolden, James L
TitleThe rhetoric of western thought / James L. Golden, Goodwin F. Berquist and William E. Coleman
Imprint Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1997
Edition 6th ed
Descript xi, 412 p.; 28 cm

CONTENT

Classical rhetorical theory: The world of Greece and Rome -- Plato's moral-philosophical view of rhetoric -- The scientific approach of Aristotle -- The education of the citizen-orator -- The christianization of rhetorical thousht -- British & continental theory: Neoclassicism, the belletristic movement and the rhetoric of Hugh Blair -- The epistemologists -- The rhetorics of Campbell and Whately -- The elocutionary movement -- Contemporary rhetorical theory: I.A. Richards and Marshall McLuhan -- Richard Weaver and rhetoric as value -- Kenneth Burke's dramatistic theory of rhetoric -- Stephen Toulmin on the nature of argument -- Chaim Perelman on practical reasoning -- Emerging european perspectives on rhetoric -- Rhetoric and the production of knowledge: a developing trend in American discourse theory -- Protest rhetoric, social movements, and campaign discourse -- Discourse theory as influenced by gender, race and the far eastern orientation


SUBJECT

  1. Rhetoric

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Communication Arts Library808 G618R 1997 CHECK SHELVES