Rhetoric Historical Introduction: An Historical Introduction,Olm

Rhetoric\n\nAn Historical Introduction\n\nWendy Olmsted (Author)\n\n9781405117739, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 7 June 2006\n\n192 pages\n23 x 15.5 x 1.6 cm, 0.281 kg\n\n\""Professor Olmsted has produced a much-needed and unique book: an account of rhetorical thinking through the ages focused on specific texts in their cultural contexts. The book does something far more important than impart mere doctrine: it demonstrates how, and teaches one, to think like a rhetorician. It will make an invaluable contribution in and out of the classroom.\"" Walter Jost, University of Virgina\n\""Wendy Olmsted gives scholars and teachers in many disciplines a valuable new kind of historical introduction to rhetoric. In three interrelated sections she provides a clear overview of classical rhetoric, incisive case studies of literature and rhetoric, and a suggestive discussion of rhetorical invention and argument in literary criticism, politics, and law. This book creatively teaches us how to]