A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism
Author: Walter Jost
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470999845

A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric’s place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric

A Companion to Greek Rhetoric
Author: Ian Worthington
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 633
Release: 2010-01-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 144433414X

This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion Incorporates new material giving us fresh insights into how the Greeks saw and used rhetoric Discusses the idea of rhetoric and examines the status of rhetoric studies, present and future All quotations from ancient sources are translated into English

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric
Author: Erik Gunderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1139827804

Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
Author: Michael John MacDonald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199731594

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative
Author: David Herman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 19
Release: 2007-07-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521856965

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.

Rhetorical Criticism and Theory in Practice

Rhetorical Criticism and Theory in Practice
Author: Dann L. Pierce
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

A class-tested first edition focusing on core areas of rhetorical research, such as metaphor, narrative, visual persuasion, ideology, and politics, with the intent of acquainting undergraduate students with a broad, accessible understanding of ideas, analytic frames, and examples of human language use. This textbook is written as a springboard for more sophisticated study, and also strives to connect the material to "message-making" in communication-related professions

Rhetoric in Popular Culture

Rhetoric in Popular Culture
Author: Barry Brummett
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2017-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 150631564X

Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Fifth Edition, shows readers how to apply growing and cutting-edge methods of critical studies to a full spectrum of contemporary issues seen in daily life. Exploring a wide range of mass media including current movies, magazines, advertisements, social networking sites, music videos, and television shows, Barry Brummett uses critical analysis to apply key rhetorical concepts to a variety of exciting examples drawn from popular culture. Readers are guided from theory to practice in an easy-to-understand manner, providing them with a foundational understanding of the definition and history of rhetoric as well as new approaches to the rhetorical tradition. Ideal for courses in rhetorical criticism, the highly anticipated Fifth Edition includes new critical essays and case studies that demonstrate for readers how the critical methods discussed can be used to study the hidden rhetoric of popular culture.

Rhetorical Criticism

Rhetorical Criticism
Author: Sonja K. Foss
Publisher: Waveland Press
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2017-07-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1478636009

Over multiple editions, this transformative text has taught the lively art of rhetorical criticism to thousands of students at more than 300 colleges and universities. Insights from classroom use enrich each new edition. With an unparalleled talent for distilling sophisticated rhetorical concepts and processes, Sonja Foss highlights ten methods of doing rhetorical criticism—the systematic investigation and explanation of symbolic acts and artifacts. Each chapter focuses on one method, its foundational theories, and the steps necessary to perform an analysis using that method. Foss provides instructions on how to write coherent, well-argued reports of analytical findings, which are then illustrated by sample essays. A chapter on feminist criticism features the disruption of conventional ideologies and practices. Storytelling in the digital world is a timely addition to the chapter on narrative criticism. Student essays now include analyses of the same artifact using multiple methods. A deep understanding of rhetorical criticism equips readers to become engaged and active participants in shaping the nature of the worlds in which we live.

Rhetorical Investigations

Rhetorical Investigations
Author: Walter Jost
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780813922492

Jost juxtaposes problems and questions in philosophy and literature, using rhetoric as the middle term and common ground between them.

Rhetoric

Rhetoric
Author: Wendy Olmsted
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0470777214

This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero's De oratore and Augustine’s On Christian Doctrine to Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Stephen Greenblatt’s Marvellous Possessions Texts serve simultaneously as works of persuasion and considerations of how rhetoric works Engages readers in using rhetoric to deliberate about challenging issues.