A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism by Walter Jo... - 9781405149570

A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism\n\nWalter Jost (Edited by), W Jost (Author), Wendy Olmsted (Edited by)\n\n9781405149570, Wiley\n\nPaperback / softback, published 19 May 2006\n\n544 pages\n24.6 x 17.3 x 3.9 cm, 0.98 kg\n\n\""Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted have produced a remarkable volume that serves equally well as an introduction to rhetorical studies and as a reference work for specialists. The range of the essays and the credentials of the contributors mark the book as important, but its most notable feature is the conception and development of a general work on rhetoric that remains connected with specific texts, historical contexts, and material circumstances ... The result is a volume impressive in its parts and invaluable in its totality \u2013 a must read.\"" Michael C. Leff, Northwestern University\n\nA Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism acr]