Rhetoric : An Historical Introduction.

Intro -- Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introducing Rhetoric -- Part I Classical: Rhetorical Traditions -- Introduction -- 1. The Rhetorician: Demagogue or Statesman? Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's Rhetoric -- 2. Eloquence, Persuasion, and Invention: Cicero's De oratore -- 3. Rhetoric and the Search for God: Augustine's On Christian Doctrine and Confessions -- 4. Practical Reason or Interested Calculation? Cicero's On Duties and Machiavelli's The Prince -- Part II Classical Rhetoric and Literary Interpretation -- Introduction -- 5. Tradition and Invention: Bacon's Aphorisms and the Essays -- 6. Deception, Strong Speech, and Mild Discourse in Milton's Early Prose and Paradise Lost -- 7. Prudence and Eloquence in Jane Austen's Persuasion -- Part III Rhetoric and Contemporary Disciplines -- Introduction -- 8. Literary Criticism and Rhetorical Invention: Wayne C. Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction and Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions -- 9. Faction, Politics, and Rhetorical Invention: Eugene Garver's For the Sake of Argument and Danielle S. Allen's Talking to Strangers -- 10. Legal Reasoning, Historical Contingency, and Change: Edward H. Levi's An Introduction to Legal Reasoning -- Index.

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