A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

Notes on Contributors Introduction Acknowledgments Part I: Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 1. Introduction: Contingency and Probability: Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar (Northwestern University) 2. The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens: David Cohen (University of California, Berkeley) 3. Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian: B. A. Krostenko (University of Notre Dame) 4. A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle 5. Continental Poetics: Arthur Kinney (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 6. 'His tail at commandment': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric: Wayne A. Rebhorn (University of Texas) 7. Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton: Thomas O. Sloane (University of California, Berkeley) 8. Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period: Victoria Kahn (University of California, Berkeley) 9. The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric: Joel C. Weinsheimer (University of Minnesota) 10. The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke: Herbert Simons (Temple University) Part II: Rhetoric's Favorite Places 11. Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince: Wendy Olmsted (University of Chicago) 12. Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers: David Smigelskis (University of Chicago) 13. Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo: Eugene Garver (Saint Johns University) 14. Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion: James Kastely (University of Houston) 15. Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato's Rhetoric of Education in the Republic: Kathy Eden (Columbia University) 16. Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism: Gary Saul Morson (Northwestern University) 17. Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments: Thomas Conley 18. Commonplaces: Sensus Communis: John Schaeffer (Northern Illinois University) 19. Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics: Anthony J. Cascardi (University of California, Berkeley) Part III: Rhetoric and Its Critics 20. Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost: Walter Jost (University of Virginia) 21. Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction - in General: Peter Rabinowitz (Hamilton College) 22. Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever": Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise: James Phelan (Ohio State University) 23. 'Mind the Gap': W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest: Adam Zachary Newton (University of Texas at Austin) 24. Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late 20th Century: James Crosswhite (University of Oregon) Part IV: All in Good Time - and Timing 25. Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory: Don Bialostosky (University of Pittsburgh) 26. Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology: Stephen H. Webb (Wabash College) 27. Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir: Nancy S. Struever (John Hopkins University) 28. Rhetoric in the Law: Robert Burns (Northwestern University) 29. Rhetorical Hermeneutics Once Again: or, Phronesis Unwrapped: Steven Mailloux (University of California, Irvine) 30. Rhetoric and Poetry: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed: Charles Altieri 31. My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession: Wayne C. Booth Index