The history and theory of rhetoric : an introduction / James A. Herrick.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. An Overview of Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Persuasion -- Defining Rhetoric -- Rhetorical Discourse -- Social Functions of the Art of Rhetoric -- 2. The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric -- The Rise of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece -- The Sophists -- Two Influential Sophists -- Aspasia's Role in Athenian Rhetoric -- 3. Plato vs. the Sophists: Rhetoric on Trial -- Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric on Trial -- Rhetoric in Plato's Phaedrus: A True Art? -- 4. Aristotle on Rhetoric -- Aristotle's Definitions of Rhetoric -- Three Rhetorical Settings -- The Artistic Proofs -- The Topoi or Lines of Argument -- Aristotle on Style -- 5. Rhetoric at Rome -- Roman Society and the Place of Rhetoric -- The Rhetorical Theory of Cicero -- Quintilian -- Longinus: On the Sublime -- Rhetoric in the Later Roman Empire -- 6. Rhetoric in Christian Europe -- Rhetoric, Tension, and Fragmentation -- Rhetoric and the Medieval Curriculum -- Rhetoric in the Early Middle Ages: Augustine, Capella, and Boethius -- St. Augustine -- Martianus Capella -- Boethius -- Three Rhetorical Arts in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries -- The Art of Preaching -- The Art of Letter Writing -- The Art of Poetry -- 7. Rhetoric in the Renaissance -- Features of Renaissance Rhetoric -- Lorenzo Valla: Retrieving the Rhetorical Tradition -- Women and Renaissance Rhetoric -- Italian Humanism: A Catalyst for Rhetoric's Expansion -- Rhetoric as Personal and Political Influence -- Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Study of Classical Texts -- Petrarch and the Origins of Italian Humanism -- Pico della Mirandola and the Magic of Language -- Juan Luis Vives -- Rhetoric and the Vita Activa -- Madame de Scudery -- The Turn toward Dialectic: Rhetoric and Its Critics -- Renaissance Rhetorics in Britain -- 8. Enlightenment Rhetorics -- Vico on Rhetoric and Human Thought -- British Rhetorics in the Eighteenth Century -- The Elocutionary Movement -- The Scottish School -- Richard Whately's Classical Rhetoric -- 9. Contemporary Rhetoric I: Argument, Audiences, and Advocacy -- Argumentation and Rational Discourse -- Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca: A New Rhetoric -- Stephen Toulmin and the Uses of Argument -- Argumentation and Scientific Inquiry -- Deirdre Mc -- Closkey and the Rhetoric of Economics -- Clifford Geertz and Rhetoric in Anthropology -- Michael Billig and the Rhetoric of Social Psychology -- John Campbell on the Rhetoric of Charles Darwin -- Criticisms of the Rhetoric of Science -- 10. Contemporary Rhetoric II: As Equipment for Living -- Rhetoric in Its Social Context: The Dramatic and Situational Views -- Kenneth Burke and Rhetoric as Symbolic Action -- Lloyd Bitzer and Rhetoric as Situational -- Rhetoric as Narration -- Mikhail Bakhtin and the Polyphonic Novel -- Wayne Booth and the Rhetoric of Fiction -- Jurgen Habermas and the Conditions of Rational Discourse -- 11. Contemporary Rhetoric III: Texts, Power, and Alternatives -- Postmodernism -- Michael Foucault: Discourse, Knowledge, and Power -- Jacques Derrida: Texts, Meanings, and Deconstruction -- Richard Weaver: Rhetoric and the Preservation of Culture -- Feminism and Rhetoric: Critique and Reform in Rhetoric -- George Kennedy and Comparative Rhetoric.

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