Logos Without Rhetoric - The Arts of Language Before Plato

How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized their differences? Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term "rhetoric".

About the author

Robin Reames is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Summary

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts

Product details

• Authors: Robin (EDT)/ Schiappa Reames
• Assisted by: Robin Reames (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781611177688
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-768-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communicat; Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric & Communic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics