Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-226) and index.
Aristotle's Rhetoric and the contemporary arts of practical discourse / Robert N. Gaines -- What Aristotle meant by rhetoric / Alan G. Gross -- Aristotle on speaking "outside the subject": the special topics and rhetorical forums / Arthur E. Walzer -- The contemporary irrelevance of Aristotle's practical reason / Eugene Garver -- Pathos and Katharsis in "Aristotelian" rhetoric: some implications / Jeffrey Walker -- Aristotle's Enthymeme as tacit reference / Thomas B. Farrell -- Two systems of invention: the topics in the Rhetoric and the New rhetoric / Barbara Warnick -- The Aristotelian topos: hunting for novelty / Carolyn R. Miller -- Aristotelian Lexis and renaissance Elocutio / Lawrence D. Green -- Aristotle and theories of figuration / Jeanne Fahnestock -- Aristotle's Rhetoric: a guide to the scholarship / Arthur E. Walzer, Michael Tiffany, and Alan G. Gross.
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In this collection edited by Alan G. Gross and Arthur E. Walzer, scholars in communication, rhetoric and composition, and philosophy seek to "reread" Aristotle's Rhetoric from a purely rhetorical perspective. So important do these contributors find the Rhetoric, in fact, that a core tenet in this book is that "all subsequent rhetorical theory is but a series of responses to issues raised by the central work."The essays reflect on questions basic to rhetoric as a humanistic discipline. Some explore the ways in which the Rhetoric explicates the natur.
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Rereading Aristotle's Rhetoric.
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Aristotle., Rhetoric.
Aristote., Rhétorique.
Aristoteles., De arte rhetorica.
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Rhétorique ancienne.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.