...John T. Kirby This essay explores a nexus of related concepts—authorship, authenticity, and authority—as they impinge upon one another and on the experience of reading, particularly in the case of “canonical” authors such as Aristotle. Aristotle’s own Rhetoric and Poetics are considered together...

... psychological treatises on mind and memory, De Anima and De Memoria et Reminiscentia , together with the multifaceted concept of energeia , found in these treatises as well as in the Rhetoric and the Metaphysics . The results suggest that the psychology of memory of the Rhetorica ad Herennium and its rhetorical...

... fait progresser l étude de l Antiquité tardive. Ce concept permet de mieux définir les changements et la continuité, du point de vue de l his- toire de la rhétorique, et éclaire les phénomènes culturels, religieux et socio-politiques. Keywords: Late Antiquity, paideia, periodization, rhetoric, Third...

... system and the court environment, but foremost within the field of early modern letter-writing in general, and the supplicatory letter in particular. The essay shows how a number of rhetorical strategies, designed to inspire pity and benevolence mainly through ethos and pathos , are employed to create...

... through classical rhetoric. This paper aims to demonstrate that, in spite of the extent of these speeches' apparent rambling, we can extricate some rhetorical structures ( constitutiones ) from the judicial oratory. This is the first point of a speech that also uses prolixity as an “art of being right...

...David Lévystone In Plato's early dialogues, the impossibility of talking to the crowd appears as a constitutive element of the opposition between rhetoric and dialectic and raises the understudied question of the role of the audience in Socratic thought. However, Xenophon's Socrates constantly...

...Danielle Griffin This essay argues that Madeleine de Scudéry's engagement with the early modern dialogue genre in Conversations sur Divers Sujets reflects and strengthens the conversational theory that scholars have pinpointed as an important feminist rhetorical strategy. By imagining...

...Wojciech Ryczek The main purpose of this paper is to discuss parrhesia (literally “free speech”), in the rhetorical theory of Bartholomew Keckermann ( Systema rhetoricae , Hanau 1608) with particular attention to its nature, forms, and functions. For Keckermann, parrhesia is not only one...

...Lars Leeten This article argues that Kant's attack on the ars oratoria in §53 of the Critique of the Power of Judgment is directed against eighteenth-century school rhetoric, in particular against the “art of speech” ( Redekunst ) of Johann Christoph Gottsched. It is pointed out that Kant suggests...

... of Latin language, not the formal link occurring between the parts of propositions. In Valla's perspective, this theoretical change is carried out through rhetoric and philology, and it involves a reassessment of the arts of the trivium . As regards this topic, I argue that Valla aims niether to reduce...

... (Institutiones Rhetorices 1523 b6r-b7v; c8v- d1r); Susenbrotus (Epitome 1540 2.2.3); Peacham (The Garden of Eloquence 1593:119); Hoskins (Directions for Speech and Style circa 1600). 88Johnston, A Methodology for Frame Analysis, cited in n. 47 above, p. 221. 89Brian Vickers, Classical Rhetoric in English...

...Riccardo Pozzo A peculiar feature of the philosophy of Georg Friedrich Meier (1718–1777) lies in its being based on rhetorical principles. We are in front of an important construct that claims for attention in the context of the growing literature on eighteenth-century rhetoric. The syntagm...

...Nathan Wagner This article seeks to view Augustine's early work as a form of revelatory rhetoric where the aim is to define and express the nature of the divine. This aim contrasts with Augustine's post-ordination work where the aim is more deliberative in nature through a language that instructs...

...Eric MacPhail This essay situates the political thought of the French Renaissance prose writer Jean Bodin within the dual tradition of political theory and epideictic rhetoric. Bodin's pragmatic reappraisal of superstition, as a bulwark against atheism and anarchy, represents a sort of convergence...

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...Rebecca Gould Notwithstanding its value as the earliest extant New Persian treatment of the art of rhetoric, Rādūyānī's Interpreter of Rhetoric ( Tarjumān al-Balāgha ) has yet to be read from the vantage point of comparative poetics. Composed in the Ferghana region of modern Central Asia between...

...Marco Sgarbi This paper deals with the conception of rhetoric of one of the most prominent Renaissance scholars, Francesco Robortello, and focuses in particular on his vernacular manuscript entitled Dell'oratore , probably his final statement on the topic, the transcription of which is included...

...Peter A. Verkruyse While George Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric is widely recognized as one of the most influential treatises in the history of rhetoric, little critical attention has been paid to one of his most famous sermons: "The Nature, Extent, and Importance of the Duty of Allegiance...

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...Gary Remer Notwithstanding the widespread assumption that Aristotle forges a better relationship among rhetoric, the emotions, and political morality than Cicero, I contend that Cicero, not Aristotle, offers a more relevant account of the relationship among these terms. I argue that, by grounding...