UID:
almafu_9959241598902883
Format:
1 online resource (191 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-61117-769-3
Series Statement:
Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Content:
"How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences, if any, among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized--or perhaps invented--their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term rhetoric (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E."--
Note:
Cover -- Logos without Rhetoric -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction -- Unity, Dissociation, and Schismogenesis in Isocrates -- Theodorus Byzantius on the Parts of a Speech -- Gorgias' "On Non-Being": Genre, Purpose, and Testimonia -- Parmenides: Philosopher, Rhetorician, Skywalker -- Heraclitus' Doublespeak: The Paradoxical Origins of Rhetorical Logos -- Rhetoric and Royalty: Odysseus' Presentation of the Female Shades in Hades -- Mētis, Themis, and the Practice of Epic Speech -- It Takes an Empire to Raise a Sophist: An Athens-Centered Analysis of the Oikonomia of Pre-Platonic Rhetoric -- Afterword: Persistent Questions in the Historiography of Early Greek Rhetorical Theory -- Appendix A: A Timeline of the Life of Gorgias of Leontini -- Appendix B: A Summary of Gorgias' Work and Activity -- Appendix C: A New Testimonium of Theodorus Byzantius -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61117-768-5
Language:
English
Keywords:
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