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Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, 2/E
Sharon CrowleyArizona State University
Debra HawheePennsylvania State University

ISBN-10: 0205269036
ISBN-13:  9780205269037

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  1999
Format:  Cloth; 395 pp
Published:  07/15/1998


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Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers. It shows that rhetoric, as it was practiced and taught by the ancients, was an intrinsic part of daily life and of communal discourse about current events.

This is a fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery. It gives special emphasis to classic strategies of invention, devoting separate chapters to stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning. The authors' engaging discussion and their many contemporary examples of ancient rhetorical principles present rhetoric as a set of flexible, situational practices. This practical history draws the most relevant and useful concepts from ancient rhetorics and discusses, updates, and offers them for use in the contemporary composition classroom.


Features

  • Lively, contemporary examples show rhetoric in everyday practice in civic discourse.
  • Ancient means of invention, including kairos, stasis theory, and the commonplaces, receive extensive treatment.
  • Treatment of argument covers arguments from ethos and pathos, and the chapter on commonplaces emphasizes political argument.
  • Ancient rhetorical exercises, the progymnasmata, are explained and exemplified throughout.
  • A brief history of ancient rhetorics gives students necessary and interesting background information about their course of study.
  • Chapter on memory (Ch. 13) includes advice for strengthening memory.
  • A bibliography and glossary of terms provide additional resources and further explanations.


New To This Edition

  • Chapter 3 is an entirely new chapter on kairos — including extended examples, discussions, and exercises — a useful concept for analyzing current events.
  • The section on enthymemes is thoroughly revised.
  • Relevance of classical commonplaces to American political ideologies is more thoroughly discussed.
  • New examples address political concerns about gender, sexuality, and technology.
  • Chapter 14 on delivery now addresses page design and layout as well as electronic delivery systems such as e-mail and web sites.


Table of Contents

Most chapters conclude with “Exercises, Notes, and Works Cited.”

Preface.


1.Ancient Rhetorics: Their Differences and the Differences They Make.

Ancient Attitudes Toward Rhetoric.

Some Differences between Modern and Ancient Rhetorics.

Language as Power.



2.A History of Ancient Rhetorics.

Early Rhetors, Rhetoricians, and Teachers.

The Older Sophists.

Philosophers on Rhetoric.

Isocrates.

An Early Sophistic Textbook.

Hellenistic Rhetoric.

Roman Rhetoric.

Rhetoric in Later Antiquity.

Further Reading about Ancient Rhetorics.

I.INVENTION.

3.Kairos and the Rhetorical Situation.

Seizing the Moment. (Kairos)

Kairos and Dissonance.

A Kairotic Stance.

Questions Raised by Kairos

Urgency: How Urgent or Immediate Is the Issue?

Arguments.

Power Dynamics: Who Gets to Speak? Who Can Be Heard?

A Web of Related Issues.

4.Stasis Theory: Asking the Right Questions.

What Happens When Stasis Is Not Achieved?

The Four Questions.

Are We into Theory Here or What?

Putting These Distinctions to Work.

Using the Stases.

5.The Commonplaces.

Commonplaces and Ideology.

Ancient Topical Traditions.

Aristotle's Common Topics.

Past/Future Fact (Conjecture).

Greater/Lesser (Values).

Possible/Impossible (Possibilities).

The Topics and American Ideologies.

The Political and Ethical Commonplaces.

Conjecture.

Greater/Lesser.

Possibilities.

6.Ethical Proof.

Ethos in Ancient Rhetorics.

Invented Ethos.

Voice and Rhetorical Distance.

Grammatical Person.

Verb Tense and Voice.

Word Size.

Qualifiers.

Punctuation.

Situated Ethos.

7.Pathetic Proof.

Ancient Teachers on the Emotions.

Emotions as Rhetorical Proofs.

The Characters of Audiences.

Composing Pathetic Proofs.

Using Honorific and Pejorative Language.

8.Reasoning in Rhetoric.

Probabilities.

Aristotle on Reasoning in Rhetoric.

Deduction.

Induction.

Enthymemes.

9.Extrinsic Proofs.

Extrinsic Proofs in Ancient Rhetorics.

Testimony.

Data.

II.ARRANGEMENT.

10.Arrangement.

Ancient Teachings about Arrangement.

The Exordium.

Introductions.

Topics for Making Audiences Attentive.

Topics for Making Audiences Receptive.

Insinuations.

The Narrative (Statement of the Case).

The Partition.

The Arguments: Confirmation and Refutation.

The Peroration (Conclusion).

Composing a Summary.

Composing Appeals to the Emotions.

Enhancing Ethos.

11.The Formal Topics.

Definition.

Definition by Species/Genus.

Enumerative Definition.

Analytic Definition.

Etymological Definition.

Division.

Classification.

Similarity (Comparison).

III.STYLE, MEMORY, AND DELIVERY.

12.Style.

Correctness.

Clarity.

Appropriateness: Kairos and Style.

Ornament.

Sentence Composition.

Paratactic and Periodic Styles.

Figurative Language.

Figures that Interrupt Normal Word Order.

Figures of Repetition.

Figures of Thought.

Sententia That Enhance Ethos.

Sententia That Involve Audience.

Sententia That Arouse Emotion.

Sententia Borrowed from Invention and Arrangement.

Tropes.

Onomatopoeia.

Antonomasia.

Metonomy.

Periphrasis.

Hyperbaton.

Hyperbole.

Synecdoche.

Catachresis.

Metaphor.

13.Memory.

Memory in Ancient Rhetorics.

Ancient Memory Systems.

Modern Versions of Ancient Memory Systems.

Literate Memory Systems.

Books.

Periodicals.

Libraries.

Electronic Memory Systems.

14.Delivery.

Ancient Commentary on Delivery.

Delivery of Oral Discourse.

Delivery of Written Discourse.

Correctness Rules I: Spelling and Punctuation.

Correctness Rules II: Traditional Grammar and Usage.

Documentation Conventions.

Textual Presentation.

CyberRhetors.

15.Imitation: Achieving Copiousness.

Ancient Rhetorical Exercises.

Reading Aloud and Copying.

Imitation.

Translation.

Paraphrase.

16.The Progymnasmata.

Fable.

Tale.

Chreia.

Proverb.

Confirmation and Refutation.

Commonplace.

Encomium and Invective.

Comparison.

Character.

Description.

Thesis.

Introduction of Law.

Glossary.

Appendixes.

A Calendar of Ancient Rhetorics.

Signposts in Ancient Rhetorics.

Bibliography.

Index.


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