A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism

A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. - Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe. - Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. - Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. - Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

Walter Jost teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Wendy Olmsted teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.

Notes on Contributors x Introduction xv Acknowledgments xvii PART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 1 1 Introduction: Contingency and Probability 5 Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar 2 The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens 22 David Cohen 3 Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero's First Catilinarian 38 B. A. Krostenko 4 A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1 58 Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle 5 Continental Poetics 80 Arthur F. Kinney 6 ''His tail at commandment'': George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric 96 Wayne A. Rebhorn 7 Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton 112 Thomas O. Sloane 8 Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period 128 Victoria Kahn 9 The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric 141 Joel C. Weinsheimer 10 The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke 152 Herbert W. Simons PART II Rhetoric's Favorite Places 169 11 Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince 173 Wendy Olmsted 12 Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers 190 David J. Smigelskis 13 Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo 206 Eugene Garver 14 Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion 221 James L. Kasteley 15 Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato's Rhetoric of Education in the Republic 238 Kathy Eden 16 Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism 248 Gary Saul Morson 17 Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments 266 Thomas Conley 18 Commonplaces: Sensus Communis 278 John D. Schaeffer 19 Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics 294 Anthony J. Cascardi PART III Rhetoric and Its Critics 309 20 Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost 311 Walter Jost 21 Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction - in General 325 Peter J. Rabinowitz 22 Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton's Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise 340 James Phelan 23 ''Mind the Gap'': W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest 355 Adam Zachary Newton 24 Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century 372 James Crosswhite PART IV All in Good Time - and Timing 389 25 Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory 393 Don Bialostosky 26 Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology 409 Stephen H. Webb 27 Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir 425 Nancy S. Struever 28 Rhetoric in the Law 442 Robert P. Burns 29 Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronèsis 457 Steven Mailloux 30 Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed 473 Charles Altieri 31 My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession 494 Wayne C. Booth Index 505