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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brian Vickers (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.671kg ISBN: 9780198117919ISBN 10: 0198117914 Pages: 516 Publication Date: 24 August 1989 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations References 1. An Outline of Classical Rhetoric - Rhetoric and Life - The Major Texts - The Main Processes of Rhetoric a) The Three Genres b) The Stages of Composition c) The Parts of a Speech d) The Orator's Three Duties e) The Three Styles 2. Plato's Attack on Rhetoric 3. Territorial Disputes: Philosophy versus Rhetoric - Responses to Plato - The Triumph of Rhetoric - The Revenge of Philosophy 4. Medieval Fragmentation 5. Renaissance Reintegration 6. The Expressive Function of Rhetorical Figures 7. Rhetoric and the Sister Arts 8. Rhetoric in the Modern Novel 9. Epilogue: The Future of Rhetoric Bibliography IndexReviews<br> In Defence of Rhetoric is a splendid historical polemic on behalf of the rhetorical tradition. This wide-ranging and well-written synthesis of contemporary scholarship will be a watershed in the study of the history of rhetoric through the Renaissance. --Arthur Quinn, Rhetorica<br> Vickers's narrative is well informed, lucidly written, and more intellectually forceful than most introductions.'--Arion<br> Vicker's ability to identify, analyze and explicate the uses and characterizations of rhetoric is the most masterful performance I have read by an historian of rhetoric. --Rhetoric Society Quarterly<br> In this fascinating and powerfully argued study, Vickers traces the history of the rhetorical tradition from its earliest beginnings in Greece to the present....His historical analysis of the fragmentation of classical rhetoric in the Middle Ages and its eventual reconstitution in the Renaissance is likely to become standard. Without doubt, this is one of the most interesting and 'One of Vickers's great accomplishments is that, with an erudition as deep as his touch is light, he shows the central role rhetoric has actually played in Western culture ... Vickers's book is also a triumph of formal exposition. It contains a remarkably lucid account of the three genres of oratory ... It also includes the best and clearest discussion of the rhetorical tropes and figures of which I am aware. It is full of excellent examples of various devices, and it provides a magnificent instance of formal rhetorical criticism in its analysis of the use of the figures and tropes in the Aeolus episode in Joyce's Ulysses.' Times Literary Supplement 'Professor Vickers is concerned not only to defend rhetoric but also to recount its history. He traces its recovery in the Renaissance in fascinating detail ... Brian Vickers presents a traditionally conceived, squarely intellectual case ... the general character of his method is clear ... His defence of rhetoric is itself not rhetorical but rational.' The London Review of Books 'It counts as a great virtue of Brian Vicker's In Defence of Rhetoric that he succeeds in charting the moving borders of rhetoric with magisterial simplicity, and in such a way as to uncover the fundamental issues of its relation to dialectic ... This is a powerful study; surely one of the most significant and interesting general studies of rhetoric ever produced.' Alastair Fowler, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Brian Vicker's book about rhetoric is itself a magnificent example of one of the three traditional rhetorical kinds, the judicial ... He is properly eloquent and energetic in rhetoric's defence' The English Association 'Vickers not only covers the span of Western thought, not only teaches about a neglected subject, but also actually trains us to see rhetoric at work and enjoy it ... It awakens in one a hunger for shaped speech, for eloquence.' Christian Science Monitor 'V. has written a book which may well become a standard text for students of the Classical Tradition' S. Usher, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London. Classical Review 'subtle both in style and in the content of its argument' Modern Law Review, Vol 53 No 4 July '90 'This is a rich, stimulating, and absorbing book. The book is beautifully printed.' B.D.H. Miller, Brasenose College, Review of English Studies, Vol. 44, May 1993 In Defence of Rhetoric is a splendid historical polemic on behalf of the rhetorical tradition. This wide-ranging and well-written synthesis of contemporary scholarship will be a watershed in the study of the history of rhetoric through the Renaissance. --Arthur Quinn, Rhetorica Vickers's narrative is well informed, lucidly written, and more intellectually forceful than most introductions.'--Arion Vicker's ability to identify, analyze and explicate the uses and characterizations of rhetoric is the most masterful performance I have read by an historian of rhetoric. --Rhetoric Society Quarterly In this fascinating and powerfully argued study, Vickers traces the history of the rhetorical tradition from its earliest beginnings in Greece to the present....His historical analysis of the fragmentation of classical rhetoric in the Middle Ages and its eventual reconstitution in the Renaissance is likely to become standard. Without doubt, this is one of the most interesting and valuable books on rhetoric to appear in the past few decades. Accessible to general readers. --Choice The most useful general book on rhetoric around, and it combines deft rhetorical performance with thorough rhetorical scholarship. --The Yale Review 'This is a rich, stimulating, and absorbing book. The book is beautifully printed.' B.D.H. Miller, Brasenose College, Review of English Studies, Vol. 44, May 1993 'subtle both in style and in the content of its argument' Modern Law Review, Vol 53 No 4 July '90 'V. has written a book which may well become a standard text for students of the Classical Tradition' S. Usher, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London. Classical Review 'Vickers not only covers the span of Western thought, not only teaches about a neglected subject, but also actually trains us to see rhetoric at work and enjoy it ... It awakens in one a hunger for shaped speech, for eloquence.' Christian Science Monitor 'Brian Vicker's book about rhetoric is itself a magnificent example of one of the three traditional rhetorical kinds, the judicial ... He is properly eloquent and energetic in rhetoric's defence' The English Association 'It counts as a great virtue of Brian Vicker's In Defence of Rhetoric that he succeeds in charting the moving borders of rhetoric with magisterial simplicity, and in such a way as to uncover the fundamental issues of its relation to dialectic ... This is a powerful study; surely one of the most significant and interesting general studies of rhetoric ever produced.' Alastair Fowler, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Professor Vickers is concerned not only to defend rhetoric but also to recount its history. He traces its recovery in the Renaissance in fascinating detail ... Brian Vickers presents a traditionally conceived, squarely intellectual case ... the general character of his method is clear ... His defence of rhetoric is itself not rhetorical but rational.' The London Review of Books 'One of Vickers's great accomplishments is that, with an erudition as deep as his touch is light, he shows the central role rhetoric has actually played in Western culture ... Vickers's book is also a triumph of formal exposition. It contains a remarkably lucid account of the three genres of oratory ... It also includes the best and clearest discussion of the rhetorical tropes and figures of which I am aware. It is full of excellent examples of various devices, and it provides a magnificent instance of formal rhetorical criticism in its analysis of the use of the figures and tropes in the Aeolus episode in Joyce's Ulysses.' Times Literary Supplement In Defence of Rhetoric is a splendid historical polemic on behalf of the rhetorical tradition. This wide-ranging and well-written synthesis of contemporary scholarship will be a watershed in the study of the history of rhetoric through the Renaissance. --Arthur Quinn, Rhetorica<br> Vickers's narrative is well informed, lucidly written, and more intellectually forceful than most introductions.'--Arion<br> Vicker's ability to identify, analyze and explicate the uses and characterizations of rhetoric is the most masterful performance I have read by an historian of rhetoric. --Rhetoric Society Quarterly<br> In this fascinating and powerfully argued study, Vickers traces the history of the rhetorical tradition from its earliest beginnings in Greece to the present....His historical analysis of the fragmentation of classical rhetoric in the Middle Ages and its eventual reconstitution in the Renaissance is likely to become standard. Without doubt, this is one of the most interesting and valuable books on rhetoric to appear in the past few decades. Accessible to general readers. --Choice<br> The most useful general book on rhetoric around, and it combines deft rhetorical performance with thorough rhetorical scholarship. --The Yale Review<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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