The genuine teachers of this art : rhetorical education in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2011]

Summary:

In his prologue Walker (rhetoric and writing, U. of Texas at Austin) offers several definitions of rhetoric and lights on the "pedagogical enterprise" as his subject, that is, the process of rhetorical training and its role. He offers discussion of Cicero's Antonius, the Techne of Isocrates, declamation and civic theater, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship. The epilogue is titled "William Dean Howells and the Sophist's Shoes." Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy

Cicero's Antonius

On the technē of Isocrates (I)

On the technē of Isocrates (II)

In the garden of talking birds: declamation and civic theater

Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship

Epilogue: William Dean Howells and the Sophist's shoes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611170160

1611170168

OCLC:

714505178