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Author

Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-

Title The genuine teachers of this art [electronic resource] : rhetorical education in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker.

Imprint

[Columbia] : University of South Carolina Press, 2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Edition	Cloth ed.
Description	356 p.
Series	Studies in rhetoric/communication
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy -- Cicero's Antonius -- On the techne of Isocrates (I) -- On the techne 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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
	Rhetoric, Ancient -- Study and teaching.
	Persuasion (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9781611170160 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9781611171822 (electronic bk.)