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Zusatztext 'This is a rich! stimulating! and absorbing book. The book is beautifully printed.'B.D.H. Miller! Brasenose College! Review of English Studies! Vol. 44! May 1993 Informationen zum Autor Brian Vickers (MA, Wheaton College; MDiv, PhD, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is associate professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Klappentext A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric! this book examines its early development in the classical era! its triumph during the Renaissance! and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige! the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce! Orwell! Jarrell! and others! and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation and misapplication in the current critical theories of such thinkers as Jakobson and de Man. Zusammenfassung This text opens with an overview of the rhetorical system as it was developed in classical times. It surveys and analyzes material from Aristotle and Plato through the Renaissance to the modern novel and the critical theories of Roman Jakobson and Paul de Man. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsReferences1. 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 Styles2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric - Responses to Plato - The Triumph of Rhetoric - The Revenge of Philosophy4. Medieval Fragmentation5. Renaissance Reintegration6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel9. Epilogue: The Future of RhetoricBibliographyIndex
