Global rhetorical traditions / edited by Hui Wu, Tarez Samra Graban.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wu, Hui, editor.

Graban, Tarez Samra, editor.

Series:

Lauer series in rhetoric and composition.

Lauer series in rhetoric and composition series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Anderson, South Carolina : Parlor Press, [2023]

Summary:

GLOBAL RHETORICAL TRADITIONS presents translated primary sources, with scholarly commentary, on rhetorical instruction and rhetorical practices of Asia, Africa, the Near East, the Middle East, Polynesia, and precolonial Europe. With an emphasis on building global terminologies to support research and teaching, this collection supports courses in global rhetorics, cross-cultural writing studies, and communication at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Contents:

Front cover

Front cover inside

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Foreword

Patricia Bizzell

Introduction: Renewing Comparative Methodologies

Tarez Samra Graban

1 Arabic and Islamic Rhetorics

Prefatory Introduction

1.1 Early Islamic, c. 18 AH/639 CE, Basrah (Iraq)

Letter from Omar bin Al-Khattab to Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari

Lana Oweidat

1.2 Medieval Islamic, c. 10th Century CE, Damascus

Al-Fārābī's Book of Rhetoric: An Arabic-English Translation of Al-Fārābī's Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric

Lahcen E. Ezzaher

1.3 Medieval Islamic, c. 428 AH/1037 CE, Persia (Buyid Dynasty)

Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on Style: Article Four from His Book on Rhetoric

Maha Baddar

1.4 Medieval Islamic, c. 442 AH/1050 CE, Spain

Foundations of Rhetoric in Ibn Hazm: Selections from Ring of the Dove and A Treatise on the Cure of Souls and the Improvement of Manners

Robert Eddy and Raed Alsawaier

1.5 Arabic-Islamic, c. 11th Century CE, Persia

Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī's "Night 8": No Place for Greek Logic in Arabic Language and Thought

1.6 Arabic-Islamic, c. 791 AH/1389 CE, Egypt

The Tongue of Sovereignty and the Weaver of Wise Words: A Partial Translation of al-Qalqaṣhandī's Maqāmah on the Chancery Writer

Rasha Diab

Comprehensive Bibliography

Glossary of Terms

2 Chinese Rhetorics

Hui Wu

2.1 Spring-Autumn Period and Warring States Period (Classical)

Rhetorical Teachings by Confucius (551-479 BCE): A Partial Translation of the Analects with an Introduction

Haixia Lan

2.2 Spring-Autumn Period and Warring States Period (Classical)

Rhetorical Treatise by Xunzi ( 子) (316-208 BCE): A Partial Translation of Xunzi with an Introduction and Commentary

Hui Wu.

2.3 Spring-Autumn and Warring States Period (Classical)

A Treatise on Rhetoric by Hanfeizi ( 子 295-233 BCE): A Partial Translation of Hanfeizi with an Introduction and Commentary

2.4 Han Dynasty

Rhetorical Instruction by Ban Zhao (班 昭 49-120 CE): A Partial Translation of Lessons for Women (女 Nü Jie) with an Introduction and Commentary

2.5 Six Dynasties or Early Medieval Period

Rhetorical Treatise by Lu Ji ( 機 261-303 CE): A Translation of "An Exposition on Writing" (Wen Fu 文 ) with an Introduction and Commentary

2.6 Six Dynasties or Early Medieval Period

Rhetorical Treatise by Liu Xie (劉勰 465-522 CE): A Partial Translation of A Heart for Eloquence and the Invention of Dragons (Wenixin Diaolong 文心 ) with An Introduction and Commentary

2.7 Tang Dynasty

Rhetorical Instruction by Song Ruozhao (宋 昭, c. 9th Century CE): Chapter One in The Analects for Women (Nü Lun Yu 女 ) with an Introduction and Commentary

2.8 Song Dynasty

The Rules of Writing in Medieval China by Chen Kui ( 1128-1203 CE): Partial Translation with Commentary

Andrew Kirkpatrick

2.9 Ming Dynasty

Rhetorical Instruction by Queen Xu (徐皇後 Xu Huanghou, 1362-1407 CE): A Partial Translation of the Doctrine for the Inner Court (內 Nei Xun) with an Introduction and Commentary

2.10 Ming Dynasty

Rhetorical Instruction by Wang Jiefu (王節婦, c. 17th CE): Excerpt from A Brief Survey of Exemplary Women (Nü Fan Jie Lu 女範捷 ) with an Introduction and Commentary

2.11 The Modern Period (the 20th century)

Rhetorical Treatise by Chen Wangdao ( 望 1891-1977 CE): Partial Translation of An Introduction to Rhetoric (Xiucixue Fafan 修 學發凡) with an Introduction and Commentary

3 East African Rhetorics

Prefatory Introduction.

Leonora Anyango

3.1 Nilotic, 20th Century, Kenya, Uganda

"My Other Heart Is Telling Me . . .": Translating Orature as a Rhetoric of Meaning

Leonora Anyango

4 Indian and Nepali Rhetorics

Uma S. Krishnan

4.1 Indian-Poetic, c. 1750-400 BCE, Ancient India

Winning Eloquence: A Tip from Two Hymns of the Rig Veda, the Richo Akshare Verse (1.164.39) and the Hymn of Knowledge (10.71)

Anne Melfi

4.2 Indian-Poetic, c. 4th-5th century BCE, Ancient India

Śruti and Smriti: Role of Listening, Chanting, and Memorization in Rhetorical and Pedagogical Practices of Indian Classical Dance

Shreelina Ghosh

4.3 Indian-Logical, c. 200 CE, Ancient India

Rhetorical Commentary on Book 1, Chapter 1 of the Nyāya Sūtra, Trans. S. S. Vidyabhusana

Keith Lloyd

4.4 Hindu, between 850 and 1000 CE, Nepal

Rhetoric as a Vehicle of Social Order in the Garuda Purāṇa

Shuv Raj Rana Bhat

4.5 Hindu, c. 18th Century CE, India

I Say "Cat," You Say "Cradle": Ecstatic Signification and the Kitchen Songs of Avudai Akkal of Sengottai

Trey Conner and Richard Doyle

5 Indonesian Rhetorics

Gregory Coles

5.1 Post-National, c. 2014 CE, Indonesia

Address at the Rakernas Partai Nasdem (National Democratic Parties Convention), by Megawati Sukarnoputri

6 Irish Rhetorics

Brian J. Stone

6.1 Medieval Irish-Gaelic (Non-European), c. 700 CE, Ireland

Selected Texts in Early Medieval Irish Rhetoric

7 Mediterranean Rhetorics

Steven B. Katz.

7.1 Byzantine, Non-European Crusades, c. 1061-1067 CE, Byzantium

Michael Psellos's "Synopsis of Rhetoric in Verses, Based on the Hermogenian Corpus": Translated with Introduction and Notes

Jeffrey Walker

7.2 Byzantine, c. 12th Century CE, Byzantium

The Alexiad of Anna Komnene: Introduction and Commentary

Ellen Quandahl

7.3 Hebraic Mediterranean, c. 15th Century CE, Italy

An Examination of Judah Messer Leon's Hebraic Treatment of the Nofet Zuphim (Book of Honeycomb's Flow)

Jim Ridolfo

8 Polynesian-Hawaiian Rhetorics

Georganne Nordstrom and kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui

8.1 Post-Colonial Hawaiian (Non-European), c. 20th and 21st Centuries, Hawaii

He Inoa no ke Kanaka (In the Name of the Person): Mele Inoa as Rhetorical Continuity

9 Russian Rhetorics

Maria Prikhodko

9.1 Kievan Rus', c. 859-1240 CE, Kiev (Eastern Europe, Rurik Dynasty)

The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh: A Rhetoric of Moral and Didactic Eloquence in the Kievan Rus' Traditions

10 Turkish Rhetorics

Elif Guler

10.1 Middle Turkish, 11th Century CE, Central Asia

Exploring the Rhetorical Perspectives in Yusuf Has Hacib's Kutadgu Bilig, Karakhanid Empire

Contributors

Index of Glossary Terms

Index of Names, Peoples, Places, and Religions

About the Editors

Inside back cover

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Wu, Hui Global Rhetorical Traditions

ISBN:

9781643173184

1643173189

9781643173177

1643173170

OCLC:

1351196026