
Logos Without Rhetoric
The Arts of Language Before Plato
Robin Reames(Editor)
University of South Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 30. June 2017
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-61117-768-8 (ISBN)
Description
How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized-or perhaps invented-their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term "rhetoric" (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E.
The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts.
The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
South Carolina
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61117-768-8 (9781611177688)
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Robin Reames is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.
Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.