Rhetoric

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"Professor Olmsted has produced a much-needed and unique book: anaccount of rhetorical thinking through the ages focused on specifictexts in their cultural contexts. The book does something far moreimportant than impart mere doctrine: it demonstrates how, andteaches one, to think like a rhetorician. It will make aninvaluable contribution in and out of the classroom." WalterJost, University of Virgina "Wendy Olmsted gives scholars and teachers in many disciplines avaluable new kind of historical introduction to rhetoric. In threeinterrelated sections she provides a clear overview of classicalrhetoric, incisive case studies of literature and rhetoric, and asuggestive discussion of rhetorical invention and argument inliterary criticism, politics, and law. This book creatively teachesus how to think rhetorically through concrete historical examplesof deliberation and judgment." Steven Mailloux, University ofCalifornia"Professor Olmsted has produced a much-needed and unique book: anaccount of rhetorical thinking through the ages focused on specifictexts in their cultural contexts. The book does something far moreimportant than impart mere doctrine: it demonstrates how, andteaches one, to think like a rhetorician. It will make aninvaluable contribution in and out of the classroom." -Walter Jost, University of Virgina "Wendy Olmsted gives scholars and teachers in many disciplines avaluable new kind of historical introduction to rhetoric. In threeinterrelated sections she provides a clear overview of classicalrhetoric, incisive case studies of literature and rhetoric, and asuggestive discussion of rhetorical invention and argument inliterary criticism, politics, and law. This book creatively teachesus how to think rhetorically through concrete historical examplesof deliberation and judgment." -Steven Mailloux, University of California