Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars ...
Author: James J. Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136292903
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 304
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Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each classical rhetor, rhetorical period, and source text, students are led to understand rhetoric's role in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Completley updated throughout, Part I of this new edition integrates new research and expanded footnotes and bibliographies for students to develop their own scholarship. Part II offers eight classical texts for reading, study, and criticism, and includes discussion questions and keys to the text in Part I.
This third edition integrates new research into the text and adds richer context within which to understand the growth and development of the rhetorical self-consciousness that is so central to western civilization.
Author: James Jerome Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1880393352
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 338
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This text provides students with a thorough review of the rhetorical theory and practices found in ancient Greece and Rome. Clearly written and engagingly presented, it is appropriate for students and scholars in rhetoric, speech, and related areas.
A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for ...
Author: James J. Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136292910
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 292
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Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each classical rhetor, rhetorical period, and source text, students are led to understand rhetoric's role in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. Completley updated throughout, Part I of this new edition integrates new research and expanded footnotes and bibliographies for students to develop their own scholarship. Part II offers eight classical texts for reading, study, and criticism, and includes discussion questions and keys to the text in Part I.
It has sometimes been said that no one knows whether or not Aristotle intended his art of rhetoric to be used as a guide to criticism . Professor Randall calls it a book on how to make a speech , and Professor Black doubts that ...
Author: James Jerome Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: PSU:000047164239
Category: Classical literature
Page: 344
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The purpose of history is to help people understand the present by providing a sense of continuity to their lives. The history of western civilization begins in Ancient Greece. So much of what we observe around us -- art, architecture, poetry, drama, and political systems -- is derived from the Greeks. Even religious beliefs and beliefs about the solar system emanate from the writings of Greek and Roman philosophers. Writing itself is a phenomenon of Greek civilization. Students seeking to understand the social impact of technologies such as writing, print, and television, must begin their study with figures such as Socrates, who was one of the first to be concerned with the changes in social interaction and consciousness wrought by the emergence of writing on portable material. For students of language, an awareness of the classical world is particularly important. The study of human discourse is an entirely western phenomenon. As far as one can judge from surviving evidence, the Greeks were the only people of the ancient world who endeavored to analyze the ways in which human beings communicate with each other. Greece is, therefore, the birthplace of the art of discourse, which includes not only rhetoric, but also logic and grammar. Although many other ancient civilizations produced literature, only the Greeks produced analytic, expository treatises that attempted to discover the actual bases of human communication. Written treatises and school "systems" which allowed rhetorical discoveries to be transmitted to others enabled the Greeks and later the Romans to amass a considerable body of precepts to guide speakers and writers. This body of precepts forms the basis for the study of "rhetoric" -- the art of human discourse. This book provides a clear understanding of the classical roots of rhetoric. While no single volume can account for every idea developed by the ancients on the art of rhetoric, this book seeks to present the concepts that will most effectively provide today's student with a basis for understanding human communication. The text contains essays about the period, original treatises by ancient writers with modern analyses that elaborate on their rhetorical precepts, and representative speeches given by celebrated orators of the ancient world. In addition, a bibliography of readings is presented for those who want to study this period more deeply.
Rhetorical theory and early Christian discourse The centrality of gnome - use to Greco - Roman rhetoric is important ... and , at greater length , J.J. Murphy , ed . , A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric ( Berkeley , 1972 ; 2d ed .
Author: Henderson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004497863
Category: Religion
Page: 445
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This book uses Greco-Roman theories and practice of gnomic speech to elaborate a rhetorical-critical model of the interaction of memory, performance and composition in the public discourse of Jesus and of both his oral and gospel-writing interpreters.
... Classical Rhetoric Refigured . Carbondale : Southern Illinois UP , 1991 . Katula , Richard A. " Greek Democracy and the Study of Rhetoric . " Ed . James J. Murphy and Richard A. Katula . A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric .
Author: Michelle Ballif
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0313321787
Category: Classical literature
Page: 422
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Alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 60 leading rhetoricians of antiquity detail their lives and writings and cite works for further reading.
Similarly, James J. Murphy's A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric provides a series of essays that present classical rhetoric in ways that enable readers to know one version of the canon, to locate useful and sophisticated ...
Author: Kathleen E. Welch
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136690693
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 200
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Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, and television, this unique volume traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. Welch begins by changing the current view of classical rhetoric by reinterpreting the existing texts into fluid language contexts -- a change that requires relinquishing the formulaic tradition, acquiring an awareness of translation issues, and constructing a classical rhetoric beginning with the Fifth Century B.C. She continues with a discussion of the adaptability of this material to new language situations, including political, cultural, and linguistic change, providing it with much of its power as well as its longevity. The book concludes that classical rhetoric can readily address any situation since it focuses not only on critical stances toward discourse that already exists, but also presents elaborate theories for the production of new discourse.
theeighteenthcenturyinabroadsensewithoutlookingathowtranslatorsand booksellers handled ancient rhetorical texts within their own language? ... James Jerome Murphy et al., A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric, 2nd ed.
Author: Tania Sona Smith
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004442290
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 710
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Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.