A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism [Paperback]

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• Assesses rhetoric’s place in the larger intellectual universe.
  
• Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures.
  
• Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day.
  
• Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction xv

Acknowledgments xvii

PART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 1

1 Introduction: Contingency and Probability 5
Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar

2 The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens 22
David Cohen

3 Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero’s First Catilinarian 38
B. A. Krostenko

4 A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1 58
Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle

5 Continental Poetics 80
Arthur F. Kinney

6 ‘‘His tail at commandment’’: George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric 96
Wayne A. Rebhorn

7 Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton 112
Thomas O. Sloane

8 Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period 128
Victoria Kahn