Rhetoric, Rhetoric - English Language

Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students

Name: Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
Author: Sharon Crowley
ISBN: 9780205175482

by Sharon Crowley, Debra Hawhee

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Overview

Revives the classical strategies of ancient Greek and Roman rhetoricians and adapts them to the needs of contemporary writers and speakers.

Synopsis

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. This fresh interpretation of the ancient canons of composing--invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery--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. The book presents stasis theory, common and special topics, formal topics, ethos, pathos, extrinsic proofs, and Aristotelian means of reasoning, and it places particular emphasis on the classic balance between principles and practice by offering ample opportunities for students to develop habits of rhetorical thinking and composing. 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.

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The authors abandon thesis statements, the so-called modes of discourse, and the research paper in favor of the theory of knowledge and the argumentative strategies built into the ancient art of rhetoric. Emphasizing context and invention, they cover early rhetors, rhetorics, and teachers; and the rhetorical situation; stasis theory; commonplaces and ideology; ethical, pathetic, and extrinsic proofs; reasoning in rhetoric; arrangement; the formal topics; and style, memory and delivery . The end-of- chapter and end-of book exercises include explanations, classical and modern examples, and composing suggestions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.