Elements of Rhetoric
Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
1st Edition
Published on 19. March 2010
528 pages
978-0-8093-8612-3 (ISBN)
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Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, Elements of Rhetoric is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher. The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed Whately's judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained strongly influenced by his ideas. Whately's views on a number of major questions in rhetoric have proved sound and fruitful during many decades of practice, and his book remains one of the most influential works on the subject.
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Richard Whately | Douglas Ehninger
Elements of Rhetoric
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10/1963
Southern Illinois University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright Page
- Foreword
- Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I - Of the Invention, Arrangement, and Introduction of Propositions and Arguments
- Chap. I. - Of Propositions
- Chap. II. - Of Arguments
- Chap. III - Of the various use and order of the several kinds of Propositions and of Arguments in different cases
- Chap. IV. - Of Introductions and Conclusions
- Part II - Of Persuasion
- Chap. I. - Introductory
- Chap. II. - Of the conduct of any address to the Feelings, generally
- Chap. III. - Of the favourable or unfavourable disposition of the hearers towards the Soeaker or his opponent
- Part III - Of Style
- Chap. I. - Of Perspicuity
- Chap. II. - Of Energy
- Chap. III. - Of Elegance
- Part IV - Of Elocution
- Chap. I. - General Considerations relative to Elocution
- Chap. II. - Artificial and Natural Methods compared
- Chap. III. - Considerations arising from the Differences between Reading and Speaking
- Chap. IV. - Practical Deductions from the foregoing views
- Appendix
- Index
- Also in the Landmarks in Rheoric and Public Address series
- Back Cover
