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Rhetoric

The art of persuasion — from the Athenian assembly to the modern podium.

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Greek Oratory (Ῥητορικὴ Τέχνη)

Converse with

Antiphon Simulacrum

Attic Oratory · Eikos · Probability · The First Logographer

5th century BCE

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Lysias Simulacrum

Attic Oratory · The Plain Style · Characterisation · Art That Conceals Art

5th–4th century BCE

Converse with

Isocrates Simulacrum

Greek Rhetoric · Political Education · Periodic Style · Pan-Hellenism

5th–4th century BCE

Converse with

Demosthenes Simulacrum

Greek Rhetoric · Political Urgency · The Philippics · Parrhēsia

4th century BCE

Roman Rhetoric (Ars Oratoria)

Converse with

Marcus Tullius Cicero Simulacrum

Oratory · De Oratore · Rhetoric · Humanitas · The Complete Orator

1st century BCE

Converse with

Rhetorica Ciceroniana Simulacrum

Oratory · Rhetoric · Persuasion · Latin Style · The Five Canons

Classical Latin

Converse with

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Simulacrum

Rhetoric · Education · Institutio Oratoria · The Complete Orator

1st century CE

Scottish Rhetoric (18th Century)

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Al-Fārābī Simulacrum

The Second Teacher · Political Philosophy · Music Theory · Neoplatonism · The Virtuous City

9th century

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Averroes / Ibn Rushd Simulacrum

Aristotle Commentaries · Tahāfut al-Tahāfut · Islamic Law · Medicine · Andalusia

12th century

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Lord Kames Simulacrum

Elements of Criticism · Aesthetic Theory · Law · Taste as Moral Faculty

18th century

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Hugh Blair Simulacrum

Lectures on Rhetoric · Belles Lettres · Style · Taste · The Sublime

18th century

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George Campbell Simulacrum

The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Evidence · Testimony · Persuasion

18th century

Analytical Tools

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Rhetorical Analysis Simulacrum

Rhetorical Structure · Figure Detection · Appeal Analysis · Dispositio · Style Comparison

Composite

Classical Scholarship

Converse with

Longinus Simulacrum

On the Sublime · Hýpsos · Elevation · Transport · The Lightning-Bolt

1st century CE

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George A. Kennedy Simulacrum

Classical Rhetoric · Comparative Rhetoric · History of Rhetoric · Greek Rhetoric Through the Ages

20th–21st century

Rhetorical Theory (20th Century)

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I.A. Richards Simulacrum

The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Tenor and Vehicle · Metaphor · Meaning · Practical Criticism

19th–20th century

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Kenneth Burke Simulacrum

Dramatism · Identification · The Pentad · Grammar of Motives · Language as Symbolic Action

19th–20th century

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Ernesto Grassi Simulacrum

Rhetoric as Philosophy · Italian Humanism · Ingenium · The Priority of the Figurative

20th century

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Richard M. Weaver Simulacrum

Ideas Have Consequences · The Ethics of Rhetoric · Language Is Sermonic · Ultimate Terms

20th century

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J.L. Austin Simulacrum

Speech Act Theory · How to Do Things with Words · Performative Utterances · Illocutionary Force

20th century

Argumentation

Converse with

Chaïm Perelman Simulacrum

The New Rhetoric · Audience · Argumentation Theory · Reasonable vs Rational · Universal Audience

20th century

Converse with

Stephen Toulmin Simulacrum

The Uses of Argument · The Toulmin Model · Warrants · Backing · Field-Dependent Standards

20th–21st century

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Lloyd F. Bitzer Simulacrum

The Rhetorical Situation · Exigence · Audience · Constraints · Situational Rhetoric

20th–21st century

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Scott Consigny Simulacrum

Rhetoric and Its Situations · The Bitzer-Vatz Debate · Integrity · Receptivity

20th century

Rhetorical Criticism

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Herbert A. Wichelns Simulacrum

The Literary Criticism of Oratory · Rhetorical Criticism · Speech as Persuasion · The Founding Essay

19th–20th century

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Wayne Brockriede Simulacrum

Arguers as Lovers · Rhetorical Criticism as Argument · Stance · Ethics of Argument

20th century

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Edwin Black Simulacrum

Rhetorical Criticism · The Second Persona · Neo-Aristotelian Critique · Moral Dimensions of Rhetoric

20th–21st century

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Gloria Anzaldúa Simulacrum

Borderlands · Mestiza Consciousness · Nepantla · Code-Switching · Rhetoric of the Margins

20th–21st century

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bell hooks Simulacrum

Engaged Pedagogy · Talking Back · The Margins as a Site of Resistance · Love as Practice

20th–21st century

Media & Orality

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Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum

The Medium Is the Message · Understanding Media · Hot and Cool · The Global Village · Extensions of Man

20th century

Converse with

Walter J. Ong, S.J. Simulacrum

Orality and Literacy · Oral Culture · The Psychodynamics of Writing · Rhetoric and Consciousness

20th–21st century

Rhetoric

Converse with

Vatzian Rhetorical Situation Simulacrum

The rhetorical situation · Rhetoric creates the situation · Against Bitzer · Agenda-setting and salience · The persuasive act as choice

Living