| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 337 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index. |
| Language |
Translated from the Ancient Greek. |
| Contents |
Aristotle's life and works -- Rhetoric before Aristotle -- Aristotle's classification of Rhetoric -- Aristotle's original audience and his audience today -- The strengths and limitations of On Rhetoric -- Chapter-by-chapter outline of On Rhetoric -- Book 1 : Pisteis, or the means of persuasion in public address -- Book 2 : Pisteis, or the means of persuasion in public address (continued) -- Book 3 : Delivery, style, and arrangement -- Gorgias' Encomium of Helen -- Socrates' critique of Sophistic Rhetoric -- Lysias' speech against the grain dealers -- Introduction to dialectic from Aristotle, Topics 1.1-3 -- Two Selections from Isocrates -- Selections from Rhetoric for Alexander -- On word choice and metaphor, from Aristotle's poetics -- Demosthenes' Third Philippic -- The earliest Rhetorical handbooks -- The history of the text after Aristotle. |
| Subject |
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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Aristotle. Rhetoric.
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| Added Author |
Kennedy, George Alexander, 1928-
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| ISBN |
9780195305098 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0195305086 (alk. paper) |
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9780195305081 (alk. paper) |
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0195305094 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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