Authors: Edward P. J. Corbett, Robert J. Connors, Robert J. Connors
ISBN-13: 9780195115420, ISBN-10: 0195115422
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: 4th Edition
Ohio State University
University of New Hampshire
Widely used in advanced composition and writing courses, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student discusses the three vital components of classical rhetoricargument, arrangement, and stylebringing these elements to life and demonstrating their effective use in yesterday's and today's writing. Presenting its subject in five parts, the text provides grounding in the elements and applications of classical rhetoric; the strategies and tactics of argumentation; the effective presentation and organization of discourses; the development of power, grace, and felicity in expression; and the history of rhetorical principles. Numerous examples of classic and contemporary rhetoric, from paragraphs to complete essays, appear throughout the book, many followed by detailed analyses.
The fourth edition of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student features a new section on the Progymnasmata (classical composition exercises), a new analysis of a color advertisement in the Introduction, an updated survey of the history of rhetoric, and an updated section on "External Aids to Invention."
Preface | ||
I | Introduction | 1 |
Rhetorical Analysis of a Magazine Ad | 2 | |
Homer: "The Envoys Plead with Achilles" | 6 | |
A Brief Explanation of Classical Rhetoric | 15 | |
The Five Canons of Rhetoric | 17 | |
The Three Kinds of Persuasive Discourse | 23 | |
The Relevance and Importance of Rhetoric for Our Times | 24 | |
II | Discovery of Arguments | 27 |
Formulating a Thesis | 27 | |
The Three Modes of Persuasion | 31 | |
The Topics | 84 | |
Manuel Bilsky, McCrea Hazlett, Robert E. Streeter, and Richard M. Weaver: "Looking for an Argument" | 130 | |
Richard L. Larson: "A Plan for Teaching Rhetorical Invention" | 137 | |
External Aids to Invention | 141 | |
An Illustration of the Use of the Search Strategy | 174 | |
Readings | 184 | |
Rachel Carson: "The Obligation to Endure" | 185 | |
Socrates' Apology | 195 | |
Obituary of Katharine Sergeant White | 209 | |
James Madison: "The Federalist, No. 10" | 214 | |
Edmund Burke: "Letter to a Noble Lord" | 230 | |
Thomas Henry Huxley: "Science and Culture" | 237 | |
Matthew Arnold: "Literature and Science" | 245 | |
III | Arrangement of Material | 256 |
The Parts of a Discourse | 259 | |
Concluding Remarks on Arrangement | 291 | |
Readings | 292 | |
Thomas A. Sanction: "Planet of the Year" | 292 | |
Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | 301 | |
Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" | 320 | |
IV | Style | 337 |
Grammatical Competence | 339 | |
Choice of Diction | 341 | |
Composition of the Sentence | 354 | |
Study of Style | 359 | |
Figures of Speech | 377 | |
Imitation | 411 | |
Readings | 448 | |
Hugh Blair: "Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison in No. 411 of The Spectator" | 448 | |
John F. Kennedy: "Inaugural Address" | 459 | |
A Paragraph by Virginia Woolf To Be Analyzed for Style | 472 | |
Analysis of Style as Persuasion in the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Richard P. Fulkerson | 478 | |
V | The Progymnasmata | 484 |
A Sequence of Assignments | 485 | |
VI | A Survey of Rhetoric | 489 |
Classical Rhetorics | 489 | |
Rhetoric During the Middle Ages | 497 | |
Some Continental Rhetoricians | 499 | |
English Vernacular Rhetorics of the Sixteenth Century | 501 | |
English Rhetorics of the Seventeenth Century | 505 | |
English Rhetorics of the Eighteenth Century | 511 | |
Rhetoric in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 517 | |
Bibliography | 544 | |
Index | 556 |