The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice.

Bender, John and David E. Wellbery (Eds.):

ISBN 10: 0804718180 / ISBN 13: 9780804718189

Published by Stanford University Press, 1990

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XIV, 238 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband minimal berieben, Buchrücken leicht verfärbt, Fußschnitt minimal angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand / binding minimally rubbed, spine slightly discolored, bottom edge minimally soiled, otherwise good condition. - The discipline of rhetoricadapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance societiesdominated European education and discourse, whether public or private, for more than two thousand years. The end of classical rhetoric's domination was brought about by a combination of social and cultural transformations that occurred between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Concurrent with the "theory boom" of recent decades, rhetoric has reappeared as a center of discussion in the humanities and social sciences. Rhetorical inquiry, as it is thought and practiced today, occurs in an interdisciplinary matrix that touches on philosophy, linguistics, communication studies, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, and political theory. Rhetoric is now an area of study without accepted certainties, a territory not yet parceled into topical subdivisions, a mode of discourse that adheres to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This volume embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. The essays draw on wide-ranging conceptual resources, and combine historical, theoretical, and practical points of view. The contributors develop a variety of perspectives on the central concepts of rhetorical theory, on the work of some of its major proponents, and on the breaks and continuities of its history. The spectrum of thematic concern is broad, extending from the Greek polis to the multi-ethnic city of modern America, from Aristotle to poststructuralism, from questions of figural language to problems of persuasion and interaction. But a common interdisciplinary interest runs through all the essays: the effort to rethink rhetoric within the contemporary epistemological situation. In this sense, the book opens new possibilities for research within the human sciences. / Contents Preface Contributors Part I Rhetoric Today Rhetoricality: On the Modernist Return of Rhetoric JOHN BENDER AND DAVID E. WELLBERY Part II The Rhetoric of Tradition The Crisis of Performance GREGORY NAGY Metaphor and Catachresis PATRICIA PARKER Part III Rhetoric, Reading, Writing On the One Hand JONATHAN GOLDBERG Lurid Figures NEIL HERTZ Part IV The Analytic of Rhetoric Analytic Speech: From Restricted to General Rhetoric MIKKEL BORCH-JACOBSEN Rhetoric and Relevance DAN SPERBER AND DEIRDRE WILSON The Emancipation of Rhetorical Elements in Art: From Postmodernity to the Technological Era WALTHER CH. ZIMMERLI Part V Rhetoric and Interaction in America The Ends of American Puritan Rhetoric SACVAN BERCOVITCH The Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity RICHARD SENNETT Notes Index. ISBN 9780804718189 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 356.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice.
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804718180
• ISBN 13: 9780804718189
• Binding: Paperback.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 356 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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The discipline of rhetoric―adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance societies―dominated European education and discourse, whether public or private, for more than two thousand years. The end of classical rhetoric's domination was brought about by a combination of social and cultural transformations that occurred between the seventeenth and ninteenth centuries.

Concurrent with the "theory boom" of recent decades, rhetoric has reappeared as a center of discussion in the humanities and social sciences. Rhetorical inquiry, as it is thought and practiced today, occurs in an interdisciplinary matrix that touches on philosophy, linguistics, communication studies, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, and political theory. Rhetoric is now an area of study without accepted certainties, a territory not yet parceled into topical subdivisions, a mode of discourse that adheres to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation.

This volume embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. The essays draw on wide-ranging conceptual resources, and combine historical, theoretical, and practical points of view. The contributors develop a variety of perspectives on the central concepts of rhetorical theory, on the work of some of its major proponents, and on the breaks and continuities of its history. The spectrum of thematic concern is broad, extending from the Greek polis to the multi-ethnic city of modern America, from Aristotle to poststructuralism, from questions of figural language to problems of persuasion and interaction. But a common interdisciplinary interest runs through all the essays: the effort to rethink rhetoric within the contemporary epistemological situation. In this sense, the book opens new possiblities for research within the human sciences.

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Rhetoric is now an area of study without accepted certainties, a territory not yet parceled into topical subdivisions, a mode of discourse that adheres to no fixed protocols. This volume embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. The essays draw on wide-ranging conceptual resources, and combine historical, theoretical, and practical points of view. The contributors develop a variety of perspectives on the central concepts of rhetorical theory, on the work of some of its major proponents, and on the breaks and continuities of its history.