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Rhetoric
The art of persuasion — from the Athenian assembly to the modern podium.
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Greek Oratory (Ῥητορικὴ Τέχνη)
Converse with
Antiphon Simulacrum
Attic Oratory · Eikos · Probability · The First Logographer
5th century BC
Converse with
Lysias Simulacrum
Attic Oratory · The Plain Style · Characterisation · Art That Conceals Art
5th–4th century BC
Converse with
Isocrates Simulacrum
Greek Rhetoric · Political Education · Periodic Style · Pan-Hellenism
5th–4th century BC
Converse with
Demosthenes Simulacrum
Greek Rhetoric · Political Urgency · The Philippics · Parrhēsia
4th century BC
Roman Rhetoric (Ars Oratoria)
Converse with
Marcus Tullius Cicero Simulacrum
Oratory · De Oratore · Rhetoric · Humanitas · The Complete Orator
1st century BC
Converse with
Rhetorica Ciceroniana Simulacrum
Oratory · Rhetoric · Persuasion · Latin Style · The Five Canons
Classical Latin
Converse with
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus Simulacrum
Rhetoric · Education · Institutio Oratoria · The Complete Orator
1st century AD
Scottish Rhetoric (18th Century)
Converse with
Al-Fārābī Simulacrum
The Second Teacher · Political Philosophy · Music Theory · Neoplatonism · The Virtuous City
9th century
Converse with
Averroes / Ibn Rushd Simulacrum
Aristotle Commentaries · Tahāfut al-Tahāfut · Islamic Law · Medicine · Andalusia
12th century
Converse with
Lord Kames Simulacrum
Elements of Criticism · Aesthetic Theory · Law · Taste as Moral Faculty
18th century
Converse with
Hugh Blair Simulacrum
Lectures on Rhetoric · Belles Lettres · Style · Taste · The Sublime
18th century
Converse with
George Campbell Simulacrum
The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Evidence · Testimony · Persuasion
18th century
Analytical Tools
Converse with
Rhetorical Analysis Simulacrum
Rhetorical Structure · Figure Detection · Appeal Analysis · Dispositio · Style Comparison
Composite
Classical Scholarship
Converse with
Longinus Simulacrum
On the Sublime · Hýpsos · Elevation · Transport · The Lightning-Bolt
1st century AD
Converse with
George A. Kennedy Simulacrum
Classical Rhetoric · Comparative Rhetoric · History of Rhetoric · Greek Rhetoric Through the Ages
20th–21st century
Rhetorical Theory (20th Century)
Converse with
I.A. Richards Simulacrum
The Philosophy of Rhetoric · Tenor and Vehicle · Metaphor · Meaning · Practical Criticism
19th–20th century
Converse with
Kenneth Burke Simulacrum
Dramatism · Identification · The Pentad · Grammar of Motives · Language as Symbolic Action
19th–20th century
Converse with
Ernesto Grassi Simulacrum
Rhetoric as Philosophy · Italian Humanism · Ingenium · The Priority of the Figurative
20th century
Converse with
Richard M. Weaver Simulacrum
Ideas Have Consequences · The Ethics of Rhetoric · Language Is Sermonic · Ultimate Terms
20th century
Converse with
J.L. Austin Simulacrum
Speech Act Theory · How to Do Things with Words · Performative Utterances · Illocutionary Force
20th century
Argumentation
Converse with
Chaïm Perelman Simulacrum
The New Rhetoric · Audience · Argumentation Theory · Reasonable vs Rational · Universal Audience
20th century
Converse with
Stephen Toulmin Simulacrum
The Uses of Argument · The Toulmin Model · Warrants · Backing · Field-Dependent Standards
20th–21st century
Converse with
Lloyd F. Bitzer Simulacrum
The Rhetorical Situation · Exigence · Audience · Constraints · Situational Rhetoric
20th–21st century
Converse with
Scott Consigny Simulacrum
Rhetoric and Its Situations · The Bitzer-Vatz Debate · Integrity · Receptivity
20th century
Rhetorical Criticism
Converse with
Herbert A. Wichelns Simulacrum
The Literary Criticism of Oratory · Rhetorical Criticism · Speech as Persuasion · The Founding Essay
19th–20th century
Converse with
Wayne Brockriede Simulacrum
Arguers as Lovers · Rhetorical Criticism as Argument · Stance · Ethics of Argument
20th century
Converse with
Edwin Black Simulacrum
Rhetorical Criticism · The Second Persona · Neo-Aristotelian Critique · Moral Dimensions of Rhetoric
20th–21st century
Converse with
Gloria Anzaldúa Simulacrum
Borderlands · Mestiza Consciousness · Nepantla · Code-Switching · Rhetoric of the Margins
20th–21st century
Converse with
bell hooks Simulacrum
Engaged Pedagogy · Talking Back · The Margins as a Site of Resistance · Love as Practice
20th–21st century
Media & Orality
Converse with
Marshall McLuhan Simulacrum
The Medium Is the Message · Understanding Media · Hot and Cool · The Global Village · Extensions of Man
20th century
Converse with
Walter J. Ong, S.J. Simulacrum
Orality and Literacy · Oral Culture · The Psychodynamics of Writing · Rhetoric and Consciousness
20th–21st century