In Defence of Rhetoric
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 24 August 1989
- ISBN 9780198117919
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages516 pages
- Size 217x137x28 mm
- Weight 671 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 halftones 0
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Long description:
Setting out to reinstate rhetoric, this book opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as developed in classical times. In Defence of Rhetoric surveys and analyses material from Aristotle to Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man.
'One of Vickers's great accomplishments is that, with an erudition as deep as his touch is light, he shows the central role rhetoric has actually played in Western culture ... Vickers's book is also a triumph of formal exposition. It contains a remarkably lucid account of the three genres of oratory ... It also includes the best and clearest discussion of the rhetorical tropes and figures of which I am aware. It is full of excellent examples of various devices, and it provides a magnificent instance of formal rhetorical criticism in its analysis of the use of the figures and tropes in the "Aeolus" episode in Joyce's Ulysses.'
Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
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References
1. An Outline of Classical Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Life
- The Major Texts
- The Main Processes of Rhetoric
a) The Three Genres
b) The Stages of Composition
c) The Parts of a Speech
d) The Orator's Three Duties
e) The Three Styles
2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric
3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric
- Responses to Plato
- The Triumph of Rhetoric
- The Revenge of Philosophy
4. Medieval Fragmentation
5. Renaissance Reintegration
6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures
7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts
8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel
9. Epilogue: The Future of Rhetoric
Bibliography
Index
