New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric
Published on 28. September 2009
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Hardback
672 pages
978-90-04-17502-0 (ISBN)
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This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends in this new area of research and offers a great richness of insights. The contributors are from fourteen different countries in Europe, America and Asia ; the majority of the papers are in English and French, some others in German, Italian, and Spanish. The texts and subjects covered include the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Korean civilization, and the contemporary world. Word, speech, language and institutions are addressed from several points of view. One major topic, among many others, is Rhetoric and Religion.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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978-90-04-17502-0 (9789004175020)
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Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg, corresponding member of the Institut de France, and Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the history of rhetoric, including Rhetoric in Antiquity (The Catholic University of America Press, 2006).
Content
Preface, Laurent Pernot
Acknowledgements
PART I - RHETORIC IN HISTORY
1. Theoretical Issues
L'histoire de la rhetorique dans l'Europe moderne, Marc Fumaroli
Rhetoriques particulaires et rhetoriques ondulatoires, Sung-Gi Jon
Aspects rhetoriques du discours historique, Donka Alexandrova
La rhetorique du simulacrum: analogies historiques, Andrei Rozhdestvenski
La traduccion como ejercicio retorico y gramatical, Francisco Chico Rico
2. Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Power of Logos in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen, Nam-Duh Kim
Painting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and Isocrates on Logography, Marie-Pierre Noel
Transparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Harvey Yunis
Le discours du tribun Licinius Macer a la plebe (Salluste, Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin), Martine Chassignet
Cicero and the Sophists, Robert N. Gaines
Cicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in paradigma dell'eloquenza romana, Gabriella Moretti
Deklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr., Gualtiero Calboli
Incest in Roman Declamation, Be Breij
L'harmonie du savoir: du modele rhetorique au modele musical, Florence Malhomme
3. Modern and Contemporary Times
The History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors, Vladimir I. Annushkin
La rhetorique militaire en Russie, Tcheslav Daletski
Henri III rheteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois, Claude La Charite
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre, Nanine Charbonnel
The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Arthur E. Walzer
The Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto, P. M. Mehtonen
PART II - RHETORIC AND RELIGION
1. The Problematic of Religious Discourse
The Rhetoric of Religion, Laurent Pernot
Caduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica, Luigi Spina
La parole, la foi et la beaute : la Grece, Rome et le christianisme medieval, Alain Michel
Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford, Martin Camargo
On Chinese Religious Rhetoric, Rudong Chen
The Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical Topoi and the Religious Imperative, Michael Leff
2. Speaking of the Gods, Speaking to the Gods
Les dieux chez les orateurs attiques, Michael Edwards
Gottesurteil - Beweismittel - Stilfigur. Funktion und Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik, Manfred Kraus
Le "discours sacre" (hieros logos) : une forme de rhetorique religieuse dans l'Antiquite grecque, Mina Tasseva
L'influence de la legende bouddhique sur le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat : un cas de persuasion rhetorique et religieuse, Heon Kim
3. How to Read the Bible Rhetorically?
Rhetorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumranienne, Marc Philonenko
Pourquoi un Traite de rhetorique biblique? Roland Meynet
The Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11, 2-16 and the Problem of the Veil, Slawomir Torbus
Art oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job, Velichko Rumenchev
Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England, Lawrence D. Green
4. Theory and Practice of Preaching
La importancia de la pronuntiatio en la Retorica eclesiastica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada, Alfonso Martin Jimenez
Bunyan's Progress and Glanvill's Stand: Narration and Stasis in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse, Jameela Lares
"No Proper Subject:" Religion and Eloquence in Modern Britain, Don Paul Abbott
Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings Predigtlehre, Gregor Kalivoda
5. Religion and Political Discourse
"Theology of Liberation" and Its Tradition in Poland: the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981-1989, Jakub Z. Lichanski
La question des rapports entre l'Eglise et l'Etat dans la rhetorique parlementaire en Bulgarie, Lilia Metodieva
Notes on Contributors
Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present)
Index of Scholars and Critics
Acknowledgements
PART I - RHETORIC IN HISTORY
1. Theoretical Issues
L'histoire de la rhetorique dans l'Europe moderne, Marc Fumaroli
Rhetoriques particulaires et rhetoriques ondulatoires, Sung-Gi Jon
Aspects rhetoriques du discours historique, Donka Alexandrova
La rhetorique du simulacrum: analogies historiques, Andrei Rozhdestvenski
La traduccion como ejercicio retorico y gramatical, Francisco Chico Rico
2. Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Power of Logos in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen, Nam-Duh Kim
Painting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and Isocrates on Logography, Marie-Pierre Noel
Transparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Harvey Yunis
Le discours du tribun Licinius Macer a la plebe (Salluste, Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin), Martine Chassignet
Cicero and the Sophists, Robert N. Gaines
Cicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in paradigma dell'eloquenza romana, Gabriella Moretti
Deklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr., Gualtiero Calboli
Incest in Roman Declamation, Be Breij
L'harmonie du savoir: du modele rhetorique au modele musical, Florence Malhomme
3. Modern and Contemporary Times
The History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors, Vladimir I. Annushkin
La rhetorique militaire en Russie, Tcheslav Daletski
Henri III rheteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois, Claude La Charite
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre, Nanine Charbonnel
The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Arthur E. Walzer
The Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto, P. M. Mehtonen
PART II - RHETORIC AND RELIGION
1. The Problematic of Religious Discourse
The Rhetoric of Religion, Laurent Pernot
Caduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica, Luigi Spina
La parole, la foi et la beaute : la Grece, Rome et le christianisme medieval, Alain Michel
Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford, Martin Camargo
On Chinese Religious Rhetoric, Rudong Chen
The Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical Topoi and the Religious Imperative, Michael Leff
2. Speaking of the Gods, Speaking to the Gods
Les dieux chez les orateurs attiques, Michael Edwards
Gottesurteil - Beweismittel - Stilfigur. Funktion und Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik, Manfred Kraus
Le "discours sacre" (hieros logos) : une forme de rhetorique religieuse dans l'Antiquite grecque, Mina Tasseva
L'influence de la legende bouddhique sur le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat : un cas de persuasion rhetorique et religieuse, Heon Kim
3. How to Read the Bible Rhetorically?
Rhetorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumranienne, Marc Philonenko
Pourquoi un Traite de rhetorique biblique? Roland Meynet
The Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11, 2-16 and the Problem of the Veil, Slawomir Torbus
Art oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job, Velichko Rumenchev
Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England, Lawrence D. Green
4. Theory and Practice of Preaching
La importancia de la pronuntiatio en la Retorica eclesiastica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada, Alfonso Martin Jimenez
Bunyan's Progress and Glanvill's Stand: Narration and Stasis in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse, Jameela Lares
"No Proper Subject:" Religion and Eloquence in Modern Britain, Don Paul Abbott
Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings Predigtlehre, Gregor Kalivoda
5. Religion and Political Discourse
"Theology of Liberation" and Its Tradition in Poland: the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981-1989, Jakub Z. Lichanski
La question des rapports entre l'Eglise et l'Etat dans la rhetorique parlementaire en Bulgarie, Lilia Metodieva
Notes on Contributors
Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present)
Index of Scholars and Critics