Global Rhetorical Traditions

GLOBAL RHETORICAL TRADITIONS is unique in design and scope. It presents, as accessibly as possible, translated primary sources on global rhetorical instruction and practices of Asia, Africa, the Near East, the Middle East, Polynesia, and precolonial Europe. Each of the book's chapters represents a different rhetorical region and includes a prefatory introduction, critical commentary, translated primary sources, a glossary of rhetorical terms, and a comprehensive bibliography. The general introduction helps contextualize the project, justify its organization and coverage, and draw attention to the various features, characteristics, and/or philosophies of the rhetorics included in the book. The book's significance lies in its contributions to both studying and teaching global rhetorical traditions by offering representative research methods and primary sources in a single volume. It can be read as scholarship, as reference, and as textbook. BRIEF CONTENTS: Foreword by Patricia BizzellRenewing Comparative Methodologies by Tarez Samra Graban1 Arabic and Islamic Rhetorics: Early Islamic, Medieval Islamic, Arabic-Islamic2 Chinese Rhetorics; Spring-Autumn and Warring States Period (Classical), Han Dynasty, Six Dynasties (Early Medieval), Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty, The Modern Period (20th Century)3 East African Rhetorics: Nilotic4 Indian and Nepali Rhetorics: Indian-Poetic, Indian-Logical, Hindu5 Indonesian Rhetorics: Post-National6 Irish Rhetorics: Medieval Irish-Gaelic (Non-European)7 Mediterranean Rhetorics: Byzantine, Hebraic Mediterranean8 Polynesian-Hawaiian Rhetorics: Post-Colonial Hawaiian (Non-European)9 Russian Rhetorics: Kievan Rus' Traditions10 Turkish Rhetorics: Middle Turkish (Central Asia)