Sophistical rhetoric in classical Greece / John Poulakos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Poulakos, John, 1948- author.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication.

Studies in Rhetoric/Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author acknowledges the following sources for their permission to use previously published material in this book: From “Terms for Sophistical Rhetoric” in Rethinking the History of Rhetoric, edited by Takis Poulakos, copyright 1993; by permission of Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. From “Toward a Sophistical Definition of Rhetoric,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 16, no. 1 (1983): 35-48, copyright 1983 by Pennsylvania State University; by permission of Penn State Press, University Park, Penn. From “Early Changes in Rhetorical Practice and Understanding: From the Sophists to Isocrates,” Texte: Revue de Critique et Théorie Littéraire 8-9 (1989): 307-24; by permission of Les Editions Paratexte Ltees, Toronto. From “Rhetoric, the Sophists, and the Possible,” Communication Monographs 51, no. 3 (1984): 215-26; by permission of Speech Communication Association, Annandale, Va. From “The Possibility of Rhetoric's Early Beginnings,” in The Van Zelst Lecture in Communication, copyright 1991; by permission of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Contents:

Sophistical rhetoric and its circumstances

Terms for sophistical rhetoric

Plato's reception of the sophists

Isocrates' reception of the sophists

Aristotle's reception of the sophists.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781283872362

1283872366

9781611171808

1611171806

OCLC:

835141099

Publisher Number:

2027/heb31844 hdl