Introduction: What is Rhetoric? Part 1: The Classical Art Beginnings Plato’s Attack. Aristotle’s Rhetoric The Roman Art Cicero: Rejecting Theory Part 2: Rhetoric Renewed Renaissance to Enlightenment Literature and Rhetoric ‘Rhetorical Didactics’: Post-Enlightenment. Part 3: Rhetoric to Rhetoricality I.A. Richards: The Art Renewed The Death of Rhetoric Post-Structuralist Rhetoric Jacques Derrida Paul de Man Rhetoric Extended Kenneth Burke Glossary of Rhetorical Terms Bibliography
Biography
Jennifer Richards is Reader in English at the University of Newcastle. She is the author of Rhetoric and Courtliness in Early Modern Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003). She has edited several collections of essays, including, with Alison Thorne, Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2006).
'As important for scholars for its originality, as for students who will welcome its lucidity in dealing with complex ideas – a successful example of fresh, academic rhetoric in its own right.' - R. S. White, Parergon
