Advances in the History of Rhetoric (Vol. 8)
Ed. Robert N. Gaines

Price: $30.00

Hardcover: Pp. vi + 313

Publisher: American Society for the History of Rhetoric (2005)

ISSN: 1536-2426

ISBN: 0-0760737-1-4

Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches

Table of Contents

I. Argumentatio
Christopher Lyle Johsonstone, "Speech is a Powerful Lord": Speech, Sound, and Enchantment in Greek Oratorial Performance, 1-20
Terry L. Papillon, The Style of Advice in Isocrates, 21-38
Kristine Bruss and Richard Graff, Style, Character, and Persuasion in Aristotle's Rhetoric, 39-72
Beth L. Hewett, Cradle of PUblic Discourse: Bowdoin College PUblic and Literary Society Exercises (1820-1845), 73-98
Beth Ann Rothermel, Acting Up: Drama and the Rhetorical Education of Progressive-Era Teachers at Three Massachusetts State Normal Schools, 99-130
Lisa M. Corrigan, Cuban Feminism: From Suffrage to Exile, 131-154
Cezar M. Ornatowski, "I Leapt over the Wall and They Made Me President": Historical Context, Rhetorical Agency, and the Amazing Career of Lech Walesa, 155-192

II. Collocutio Edited by Glen McClish
Glen McClish, Honoring the Scholarship of Thomas O. Sloane: An Introduction, 193-198
Jeffrey Walker, Mime, Comedy, Sophistry: Speculations on the Origins of Rhetoric, 199-210
Lawrence D. Green, The Encyclopedic Impulse: Laudatio Thomae Sloanis, 211-216
Willis Salomon, The Energy of Renaissance Rhetoric: Thomas Sloane on Rhetorical Agency, 217-224
Patricia Roberts-Miller, When Agonism is Agony, 225-230
Dennis A. Lynch, Complicating the Scene of Argument: Into, Through, and Beyond Pro and Con, 231-238

III. Translatio
Jeffrey Walker, Michael Psellos: the Encomium of His Mother, 239-313