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Book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

Download or read book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography written by A.J. Woodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Woodman's radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. A thought-provoking discussion of ancient historiographical theory.

Book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

Download or read book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography written by Anthony John Woodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1988 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Rhetoric in classical historiography

Download or read book Rhetoric in classical historiography written by Anthony J. Woodman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography

Download or read book Rhetoric in Classical Historiography written by A.J. Woodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical study argues against the view that the historian's craft has remained largely unchanged since classical times. Includes detailed discussion of the work of Thucydides, Cicero, Sallust, Livy and Tacitus.

Book Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric

Download or read book Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric written by Michelle Ballif and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, historians of rhetoric, composition, and communication vociferously theorized historiographical motivations and methodologies for writing histories in their fields. After this fertile period of rich, contested, and impassioned theorization, scholars busily undertook the composition of numerous historical works, complicating master narratives and recovering silenced voices and rhetorical practices. Yet, though historians in these fields have gone about the business of writing histories, the discussion of theorization has been quiet. In this welcome volume, fifteen scholars consider, once again, the theory of historiography, asking difficult questions about the purposes and methodologies of writing histories of rhetoric, broadly defined, and questioning what it means, what it should mean, what it could mean to write histories of rhetoric, composition, and communication. The topics addressed include the privileging of the literary and the textual over material artifacts as prime sources of evidence in the study of classical rhetoric, the use of rhetorical hermeneutics as a methodology for interpreting past practices, the investigation of feminist methodologies that do not fit into the dominant modes of feminist historiographical work and the examination of archives with a queer eye to better construct nondiscriminatory narratives. Contributors also explore the value of approaching historiography through the lenses of jazz improvisation and complexity theory, and the historiographical method of writing the future in ways that refigure our relationships to time and to ourselves. Consistently thoughtful and carefully argued, these essays successfully revive the discussion of historiography in rhetoric, inspiring fresh avenues of exploration in the field.

Book Classical Rhetoric   Medieval Historiography

Download or read book Classical Rhetoric Medieval Historiography written by Ernst Breisach and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the study of rhetoric has received a much-needed revival dating from about 1945, historical writing was not a favored object of scrutiny among the many studies of rhetoric's influence on medieval literature, education, and preaching (from the introduction). By 1978, some scholars had resolved to rectify this problem, and organized sessions at the thirteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies. This volume stands as a selection of works presented there, helping to fortify the strength of interest and inquiry directed toward rhetoric's symbiosis with historiography in centuries past (from the introduction).

Book The History and Theory of Rhetoric

Download or read book The History and Theory of Rhetoric written by James A. Herrick and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers an accessible discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American and European theorists.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies written by Michael John MacDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.

Book The History and Theory of Rhetoric

Download or read book The History and Theory of Rhetoric written by James A. Herrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Theory of Rhetoric offers discussion of the history of rhetorical studies in the Western tradition, from ancient Greece to contemporary American and European theorists that is easily accessible to students. By tracing the historical progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists of the 5th Century B.C. all the way to contemporary studies–such as the rhetoric of science and feminist rhetoric–this comprehensive text helps students understand how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds. Students gain conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today's students.

Book A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric

Download or read book A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric written by James J. Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each classical rhetor, rhetorical period, and source text, students are led to understand rhetoric's role in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Completely updated throughout, Part I of this new edition integrates new research and expanded footnotes and bibliographies for students to develop their own scholarship. Part II offers eight classical texts for reading, study, and criticism, and includes discussion questions and keys to the text in Part I.

Book A New History of Classical Rhetoric

Download or read book A New History of Classical Rhetoric written by George A. Kennedy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, an extensive revision and abridgment of The Art of Persuasion in Greece, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World, and Greek Rhetoric under Christian Emperors, provides a comprehensive history of classical rhetoric, one that is sure to become a standard for its time. Kennedy begins by identifying the rhetorical features of early Greek literature that anticipated the formulation of "metarhetoric," or a theory of rhetoric, in the fifth and fourth centuries b.c.e. and then traces the development of that theory through the Greco-Roman period. He gives an account of the teaching of literary and oral composition in schools, and of Greek and Latin oratory as the primary rhetorical genre. He also discusses the overlapping disciplines of ancient philosophy and religion and their interaction with rhetoric. The result is a broad and engaging history of classical rhetoric that will prove especially useful for students and for others who want an overview of classical rhetoric in condensed form.

Book History  Rhetoric  and Proof

Download or read book History Rhetoric and Proof written by Carlo Ginzburg and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's leading historians delivers a pathbreaking analysis of truth and rhetoric in the writing of history.

Book Digressions in Classical Historiography

Download or read book Digressions in Classical Historiography written by Mario Baumann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

Book Rhetoric and the Writing of History  400   1500

Download or read book Rhetoric and the Writing of History 400 1500 written by Matthew Kempshall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe over a thousand-year period between c.400 and c.1500. Concentrating on the general principles of classical rhetoric central to the language of this writing, alongside the more familiar traditions of ancient history, biblical exegesis and patristic theology, this survey introduces the conceptual sophistication and semantic rigour with which medieval authors could approach their narratives of past and present events, and the diversity of ends to which this history could then be put. By providing a close reading of some of the historians who put these linguistic principles and strategies into practice (from Augustine and Orosius through Otto of Freising and William of Malmesbury to Machiavelli and Guicciardini), it traces and questions some of the key methodological changes that characterise the function and purpose of the western historiographical tradition in this formative period of its development.

Book A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380 1620

Download or read book A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380 1620 written by Peter Mack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the most important individual contributions to the development of Renaissance rhetoric and analyzes the new ideas which Renaissance thinkers contributed to rhetorical theory.

Book Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period  330 B C    A D  400

Download or read book Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period 330 B C A D 400 written by Stanley E. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed reference work provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging introduction to classical rhetoric as it was practised in the hellenistic period (330 B.C.-A.D.400). In three sections, it provides a thorough description and analysis of the standard categories of thought, terminology, and theoretical and historical developments of classical rhetoric, as well as providing useful bibliographies. The three sections of essays define the major categories of rhetoric, analyze rhetorical practice according to genre of writing, and treat individual writers in the rhetorical tradition. 27 international scholars from a wide range of backgrounds have contributed to this high-quality publication, which provides an state-of-the-art overview of the current research and will from the basis of future explorations. Students of the rhetoric of the New Testament, the hellenistic period, the classical period and the patristic era will all find this volume useful and insightful, as will those with general interests in these subjects. This publication has also been published in hardback (no longer available).

Book Orosius and the Rhetoric of History

Download or read book Orosius and the Rhetoric of History written by Peter Van Nuffelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Orosius situates himself in the classical tradition and draws on a variety of rhetorical tools to shape his historical narrative, The histories against the pagans, written in 415/7, and position the Church at the heart of his view of Roman history.