Classical Greek rhetorical theory and the disciplining of discourse / David M. Timmerman, Edward Schiappa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Timmerman, David M., author.

Schiappa, Edward, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Greek language--Style.

Greek language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Classical Greek Rhetorical Theory & the Disciplining of Discourse

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contributes to the history of classical rhetoric by focusing on how key terms helped to conceptualize and organize the study and teaching of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa demonstrate that the intellectual and political history of Greek rhetorical theory can be enhanced by a better understanding of the emergence of 'terms of art' in texts about persuasive speaking and argumentation. The authors provide a series of studies to support their argument. They describe Plato's disciplining of dialgesthai into the Art of Dialectic, Socrates' alternative vision of philosophia, and Aristotle's account of demegoria and symboule as terms for political deliberation. The authors also revisit competing receptions of the Rhetoric to Alexander. Additionally, they examine the argument over when the different parts of oration were formalized in rhetorical theory, illustrating how an 'old school' focus on vocabulary can provide fresh perspectives on persistent questions.

Contents:

Introduction : terms of art as a focus in the history of rhetorical theory

Dialegesthai as a term of art : Plato and the disciplining of dialectic

Philosophia as a term of art : recovering Isocrates

Terms of art for public deliberation : Dåemåegoria and Symboulåe

Terms of art and the interpretation of texts : the disciplinary status of the rhetoric to Alexander

Terms of art and inferring theory : when did the parts of a speech become formalized?

Epilogue.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20495-X

0-511-84733-5

1-282-63066-0

9786612630668

0-511-74988-0

0-511-74913-9

0-511-74333-5

0-511-74226-6

0-511-75062-5

0-511-74441-2

OCLC:

638859641