Reading Rhetoric Theory - Hardcover

1. CLASSICAL GREEK HERITAGE. Introduction to Gorgias. Introduction to Isocrates. Introduction to Plato. Introduction to Aristotle. 2. CLASSICAL ROMAN HERITAGE. Introduction to Cicero Introduction to Quintilian. Introduction to Longinus. 3. MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE. Introduction to St. Augustine. Introduction to Christine de Pizan. Introduction to Margaret Fell. Introduction to Peter Ramus. Introduction to Desiderius Erasmus. Introduction to Francis Bacon. 4. ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGH THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Introduction to John Locke. Introduction to Giambattista Vico. Introduction to George Campbell. Introduction to Hugh Blair. Introduction to Richard Whately. Introduction to Eliza Leslie. 5. TWENTIETH CENTURY. Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin. Introduction to Amy Vanderbilt. Introduction to Edward L. Bernays. Introduction to I.A. Richards. Introduction to William G. Hoffman. Introduction to Kenneth Burke. Introduction to Richard M. Weaver. Introduction to Stephen Toulmin. Introduction to Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts. Introduction to Marshall McLuhan. Introduction to Michel Foucault. Introduction to Molefi Kete Asante. Introduction to Helene Cixous. Introduction to Karilyn Kohrs Campbell. Introduction to Carole Spitzack and Kathryn Carter.

An anthology of original readings, Reading Rhetorical Theory uses selections from primary sources to track the history of thinking. Two features of this book enable it to stand apart from other texts on rhetorical theory. First, its unique mix of readings blends traditional authors such as Aristotle, Plato, and Kenneth Burke with popular modern authors such as Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Second, the editorial introductions develop a consistent and unified perspective that allows for differing interpretations of rhetorical theory at the same time that it ties together the history of the subject. Reading Rhetorical Theory is appropriate in graduate or undergraduate courses that cover the history of rhetorical theory by using primary sources to track the history of thinking about human symbolic influence.