James A Herrick

The History and Theory of Rhetoric

An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 7th edition
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 178mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780367429294
• ISBN-10: 0367429292
• Artikelnr.: 60003657

Autorenporträt

James A. Herrick is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Hope College, USA. His publications include Argumentation: Understanding and Shaping Arguments, 6th edition (2017) and Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. An Overview of Rhetoric 2. The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric 3. Plato versus the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial 4. Aristotle on Rhetoric 5. Rhetoric at Rome 6. Rhetoric in Christian Europe and North Africa 7. Rhetoric in the Renaissance 8. Enlightenment Rhetoric 9. Contemporary Rhetoric I: Arguments
Audiences
and Science 10. Contemporary Rhetoric II: Narrative
Display
and Objects 11. Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts
Power
and Alternatives