Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal's history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to...
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Advances in the History of Rhetoric: The First Six Years is a comprehensive collection of 29 scholarly essays published during the first phase of the journal's history. Research from prominent and developing scholars that was once difficult to acquire is now offered in a coherent and comprehensive collection that is complemented by a detailed index and unified bibliography. This collection covers a range of periods and topics in the history of rhetoric, including Greek and Roman rhetoric, rhetoric and religion, women in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and science, Renaissance and British rhetorical theory, rhetoric and culture, and the development of American rhetoric and composition. The editors, Richard Leo Enos and David E. Beard, provide a preface and afterword that synthesize the mission and meaning of this work for students and scholars of the history of rhetoric. Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface: Our Title Is Our Mission Statement -- Richard Leo Enos -- 1 Beyond Dichotomy: The Sophists' Understanding of Antithetical Thought -- Valerie V. Peterson -- 2 Hermagoras' Theory of Prose Oikonomia in Dionysius of Halicarnassus -- Robert Stephen Reid -- 3 The Teaching of the Progymnasmata of Pedro Juan Núñez (Valencia 1529-1602) -- Ferran Grau Codina -- 4 Erasmus's Irenic Rhetorical System -- Bohn D. Lattin -- 5 Neglected Texts of Olympe de Gouges, Pamphleteer of the French Revolution of 1789 -- Mary Cecilia Monedas -- 6 Samuel P. Newman's A Practical System of Rhetoric: The Evolution of a Method -- Beth L. Hewett -- 7 Visions of the Probable: The Transition from Rhetorical to Mathematical Models of Probability -- Terri Palmer -- 8 A Rhetorical Liturgy: Ephesians I and the Problem of Race Relations in the Early Christian Church -- Gary S. Selby -- 9 "Danced through Every Labyrinth of the Law": Benjamin Austin on Rhetoric as Virtue and Vice in Early American Legal Practice -- Sean Patrick O'Rourke -- 10 The Human Genome Project: Novel Approaches, Probable Reasoning, and the Advancement of Science -- Charlotte A. Robidoux -- 11 Let's Re-Enact Rhetoric's History -- John C. Adams -- 12 Leading Lady or Bit Part: The Role of the History of Rhetoric in Communication Education -- Glen McClish -- 13 Encomium on Helen as Advertisement: Political Life According to Gorgias the Barbarian -- Michael William Pfau -- 14 Upholding the Values of the Community: Normative Psychology in Aristotle's Rhetoric -- Ulrike Zinn Jaeckel -- 15 Enacting the Roman Republic: Reading Pliny's Panegyric Rhetorically -- Davis W. Houck -- 16 Hrotsvit, Strong Voice of Gandersheim -- Janet B. Davis -- Classical and Christian Conflicts in Keckermann's De rhetoricae ecclesiasticae utilitate -- Jameela Lares.
