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A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. The contributions are written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields and have all been specially commissioned for this volume. They focus on specific works, problems, or figures, pursuing theory and criticism from an engaged and practical perspective. The volume also includes an overview of rhetorical traditions, providing examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Designed to be accessible to a range of students and scholars, A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism elaborates in fascinating ways just what it means to "think like a rhetorician Machine derived contents note: Table Of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Rhetoric in Its Place-and Time -- Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar, "Introduction: Contingency and Probability" -- David Cohen, "The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens" -- B.A. Krostenko, "Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian " -- Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, "A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1" -- Arthur Kinney, "Continental Poetics" -- Wayne A. Rebhorn, " 'His tail at commandment': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric" -- Thomas O. Sloane, "Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton" -- Victoria Kahn, "Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period" -- Joel C. Weinsheimer, "The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric" -- Herbert Simons, "The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke" -- PART TWO: Some of Rhetoric's Favorite Places -- Topics (and deliberation): Wendy Olmsted, "Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince" -- Deliberation (and topics): David Smigelskis, "Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers" -- Ethos: Eugene Garver, "Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo" -- Pathos: James Kastely, "Rhetoric and Emotion" -- Aphoristic style: Gary Saul Morson, "The Rhetoric of the Aphorism" -- Analogies, parables, paradoxes: Kathy Eden, "Get On Down: Plato's Rhetoric of Education in the Republic" -- Argumentation: Thomas Conley, "What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments" -- Commonplaces: John Schaeffer, "Sensus Communis" -- Judgment: Anthony J. Cascardi, "Rhetoric and Aesthetics: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment" -- PART THREE: Rhetoric and a Few of Its Critics -- Walter Jost, "Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost" -- Peter Rabinowitz, "Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction-in General" -- James Phelan, "Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever": Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise" -- Adam Zachary Newton, " 'Mind the Gap': W.G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest" -- James Crosswhite, "Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late 20th Century" -- PART FOUR: Rhetoric's Good Timing -- Don Bialostosky, "Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory" -- Stephen H. Webb, "Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology" -- Nancy S. Struever, "Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir" -- Robert Burns, "Rhetoric in the Law" -- Steven Mailloux, "Rhetorical Hermeneutics Once Again: or, Phronesis Unwrapped" -- Charles Altieri, "Rhetoric and Poetry: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed" -- Wayne C. Booth, "My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession" -- Index.
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