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Rhetoric. by Aristotle

Subjects: “…Rhetoric, Ancient.…”
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Rhetoric An Historical Introduction. by Olmsted, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Rhetoric: An Historical Introduction -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introducing Rhetoric -- Part I Classical: Rhetorical Traditions -- Introduction -- 1. …”
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A companion to rhetoric and rhetorical criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric in its place and time ;…”
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Rhetoric and demagoguery / by Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-

Subjects: “…Rhetoric Political aspects.…”
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Rhetorics of Fantasy. by Mendlesohn, Farah

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Rhetorics of Fantasy; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Portal-Quest Fantasy; Chapter 2: The Immersive Fantasy; Chapter 3: The Intrusion Fantasy; Chapter 4: The Liminal Fantasy; Chapter 5: "The Irregulars": Subverting the Taxonomy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
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The rhetoric of interruption : speech-making, turn-taking, and rule-breaking in Luke-Acts and ancient Greek narrative / by Smith, Daniel Lynwood

Table of Contents: “…Interruption and rhetoric in ancient Greek literature -- Interrupted speech in Greek historiography : from Homer to Appian -- Interrupted speech in Jewish historiography : from Job to Josephus -- Interrupted speech in Greek novels -- The overlooked interruptions of the Gospel according to Luke -- Interrupted speech in the Acts of the Apostles -- Conclusions.…”
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The rhetoric of Romans. by Elliott, Neil

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Editorial Board; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction THE STARTING POINT OF ARGUMENTATION IN ROMANS; Chapter 1 PAUL''S PURPOSE IN WRITING TO THE ROMANS; Chapter 2 PAUL''S USE OF TOPICS ON THE LAW IN ROM. 1.13-4.25: THE ''DEBATE WITH JUDAISM'' REEXAMINED; Excursus ROMANS 1-4 AS A DEBATE WITH JUDAISM''; Chapter 3 THE MODIFICATION OF A RHETORICAL SITUATION (ARGUMENTATION) IN ROMANS 5-11; Chapter 4 CONCLUSIONS; Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors.…”
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Rhetoric of femininity : female body image, media, and gender role stress/conflict / by Pompper, Donnalyn, 1960-

“…Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.…”
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Rhetoric and Reality : Presidential Commissions and the Making of Public Policy. by Tutchings, Terrence R.

Table of Contents: “…The President and Public Policy; Rhetoric and Reality; Public Policy-How Public Is It?…”
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Cognitive rhetoric : the cognitive poetics of political discourse / by Browse, Sam

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Cognitive Rhetoric -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Editorial page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- 1. …”
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Rhetorics of Overcoming Rewriting Narratives of Disability and Accessibility in Writing Studies. by Hitt, Allison Harper

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Rhetorics of Overcoming -- 2. (De)Valuing Disability: Moving beyond Accommodation Approaches to Accessibility in Writing Studies -- 3. …”
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Aristotle's "Rhetoric" : Philosophical Essays /

Table of Contents: “…The Uses of Endoxa: Philosophy and Rhetoric in the Rhetoric /…”
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Museum rhetoric : building civic identity in national spaces / by Weiser, M. Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rhetorical museum -- The story we tell ourselves -- The object of the story -- Identifying with the museum -- Identifying with the nation -- Alternative identifications -- Conclusion : the museum in the world.…”
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Field rhetoric : ethnography, ecology, and engagement in the places of persuasion /

Table of Contents: “…On being there: an introduction to studying rhetoric in the field / Candice Rai and Caroline Gottschalk Druschke -- Agonistic methodology: a rhetorical case study in agricultural stewardship / Caroline Gottschalk Druschke -- Historiographic remembering and emotional encounters: possibilities for field-based rhetorical research / Heather Brook Adams -- What's a farm? …”
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Medieval Rhetoric. by Troyan, Scott D.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; The Medieval Art of Poetry and Prose: The Scope of Instruction and the Uses of Models; Alphabets and Rosary Beads in Chaucer's An ABC; On the Usefulness and Use Value of Books: A Medieval and Modern Inquiry; The Prioress's Oratio ad Mariam and Medieval Prayer Composition; Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry; Argument and Emotion in Troilus and Criseyde; Advice without Consent in Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales; The Traces of Invention: Phatic Rhetoric, Anthology, and Intertextuality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.…”
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Argument and rhetoric : adverbial connectors in the history of English / Adverbial connectors in the history of English by Lenker, Ursula

Table of Contents: “…Perspicuity and the "New Rhetoric"; 14. Conclusions; Backmatter.…”
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Rhetorical Agendas : Political, Ethical, Spiritual.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- I Rhetorical Agendas -- 1 Rhetorics Fast and Slow -- 2 Moral Vernaculars and Rhetorics of Conscience -- 3 Rudolph Agricola's Contribution to Rhetorical Theory -- 4 Responsible Citizenship: Ethos, Action and the Voices of African American Women -- II History -- 5 The Centrality of Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Methodist Preaching -- 6 Between Iconophilia and Iconophobia: Milton's Areopagitica and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture -- 7 Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae: Acumen, Memory, and the Imaginative Universals -- 8 The Spiritual and Secular Rhetoric of Happiness in Joseph Smith and John Stuart Mill -- 9 Nooses and Neck Verses: The Life and Death Consequences of Literacy Testing -- 10 Campbell's View of Argument as Comparison Advances His Religious Agenda -- III Theory -- 11 Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, and the Transubstantiation of Place -- 12 Private Commitments and Public Rhetoric: Implications for Ethical Practice -- 13 Reading Talmud: Levinas and the Possibility of Rhetoric -- 14 Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop Whately -- 15 White Space as Rhetorical Space: Usability and Image in Electronic Texts -- 16 On a Rhetorical Techne of the Moral-Emotions -- 17 Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music -- 18 The Scientific Media Hoax: A Rhetoric for Reconciling Linguistics and Literary Criticism -- IV Pedagogy -- 19 Serving Academic Capitalism: The Cultural Function of Community-Based Partnerships -- 20 Progymnasmata, Then and Now -- 21 The Traditional Made New: Jasinski's Sourcebook on Rhetoric -- 22 Electronic Versions of Collaborative Pedagogy: A Brief Survey -- 23 Reclaiming Hybridity: How One Filipino American Counterpublic Hybridizes Academic Discourse.…”
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Ecofeminism and rhetoric : critical perspectives on sex, technology, and discourse /

Table of Contents: “…Sowards -- Invitational rhetoric: alternative rhetorical strategy as ecofeminist practice for transformation of perception and use of energy in the residential built environment from the Keweenaw to Kerala / Merle Kindred -- Ecofeminist ethics and digital technology: a case study of Microsoft Word / Julia E. …”
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Clockwork rhetoric : the language and style of steampunk /

Table of Contents: “…The rhetoric of Steampunk / Barry Brummett -- A rhetoric of Steam / David Beard -- "There is hope for the future" : the (dis)enchantment of the technician-hero in Steampunk / Mirko M. …”
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Rome and rhetoric : Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / by Wills, Garry, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Caesar: mighty yet -- Brutus: rhetoric verbal and visual -- Antony: the fox knows many things -- Cassius: parallel lives.…”
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The rhetoric of philosophy / by Frogel, Shai

Table of Contents: “…The Rhetoric of Philosophy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Rhetoric and philosophy; Speaker and addressee in philosophy; Philosophical argumentation: Logic and rhetoric109; Humanism, critique and the rhetoric of philosophy; Notes; References; Index; the series Controversies.…”
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Evolutionary rhetoric : sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / by Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The Unlikely Rhetorical Allies of Science and Free-Love Feminism -- The Season of Battle : The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory : (R)Evolutionary Rhetorics in the Free-Love Movement -- Physiology : Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology : Marriage as a "Diseased" Institution -- Embryology : Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity : The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion : Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.…”
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Organizational Rhetoric : Situations and Strategies. by Hoffman, Mary F.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Preface; 1 -- Organizations and Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture; 2 -- Identifying Rhetorical Strategies in Organizational Rhetoric; 3 -- Rhetorical Situations in Organizations; 4 -- Critical Approaches to Organizational Rhetoric; 5 -- Evaluating and Critiquing Organizational Rhetoric; 6 -- Identity Creation and Maintenance Rhetoric; 7 -- Rhetoric About Issues; 8 -- Rhetoric About Organizational Risk; 9 -- Crisis Rhetoric; 10 -- Organizational Rhetoric for Internal Audiences; Epilogue; Appendix; References; Index; About the Authors.…”
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The Rhetoric of Cool : Composition Studies and New Media. by Rice, Jeff

Subjects: “…English language Rhetoric Computer-assisted instruction.…”
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Metaphysics as Rhetoric : Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's ""Laws"" by Parens, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysics as Rhetoric ; Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. …”
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Imagining rhetoric : composing women of the early United States / by Eldred, Janet Carey

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Tradition of Female Civic Rhetoric --…”
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The Dao of rhetoric / by Combs, Steven C., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Rhetoric East and West. -- Culture, text, and context. -- Laozi and the natural way of rhetoric. -- Zhuangzi and the rhetoric of evocation. -- Sunzi and the rhetoric of parsimony. -- Daoist rhetorical criticism. -- Is The Tao of Steve really "The way"? …”
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Rhetoric and Galatians : Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle. by Kern, Philip H.

Table of Contents: “…Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Towards a Definition of Rhetoric; 3 Methods of Rhetorical Analysis and Galatians; 4 Rhetorical Structure and Galatians; 5 Rhetorical Species and Galatians; 6 The Language of Paul's Letters: 1. …”
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Rhetoric at the margins : revising the history of writing instruction in American colleges, 1873-1947 / by Gold, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Beyond ideology in rhetoric and composition historiography -- Integrating traditions at a private Black college -- Balancing tensions at a public women's university -- Challenging orthodoxies at a rural normal college -- Conclusion: History matters.…”
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Vain rhetoric : private insight and public debate in Ecclesiastes / by Salyer, Gary D.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 PROLEGOMENA: TOWARD A THEORY OF READING SCRIPTURAL TEXTS; Chapter 2 READING ECCLESIASTES AS A FIRST-PERSON SCRIPTURAL TEXT; Chapter 3 AMBIGUITIES, RIDDLES AND PUZZLES: AN OVERVIEW OF THE LINGUISTIC AND STRUCTURAL READER PROBLEMS IN THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES; Chapter 4 THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SPIRAL: THE IRONIC USE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE KNOWLEDGE IN THE NARRATIVE PRESENTATION OF QOHELETH; Chapter 5 ROBUST RETICENCE AND THE RHETORIC OF THE SELF: READER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE USE OF FIRST-PERSON DISCOURSE IN ECCLESIASTES 1.1-6.9.…”
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The Rhetorical turn : invention and persuasion in the conduct of inquiry /

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction: The Rhetoric of Inquiry as an Intellecutal Movement; Part One: Rhetorics of Science; 1. …”
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The philosophy of rhetoric / by Campbell, George, 1719-1796

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Also in this Series; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Editions of The Philosophy of Rhetoric; Notes to the Present Edition: Corrections and Additions; Preface; Introduction; Book I. …”
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The rhetoric of remembrance : an investigation of the "Fathers" in Deuteronomy / by Hwang, Jerry

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Democracy & rhetoric : John Dewey on the arts of becoming / Democracy and rhetoric by Crick, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and the ethics of democracy -- The rhetoric of inquiry -- Rhetoric and aesthetics.…”
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Persuasion & rhetoric / Persuasion and rhetoric by Michelstaedter, Carlo, 1887-1910

Table of Contents: “…On Persuasion -- Persuasion -- The Illusion of Persuasion -- The Way to Persuasion -- Part II. On Rhetoric -- Rhetoric -- The Constitution of Rhetoric -- Rhetoric in Life.…”
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Islamist rhetoric : language and culture in contemporary Egypt / by Høigilt, Jacob

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Rhetorical analysis and the study of social reality -- Islamic ideology and the public sphere in Egypt -- The rhetoric of religious authority : the main thematic characteristics of Yusuf al-Qaradawi's books -- The rhetoric of religious passion : the nature and content of Amr Khalid's books -- The rhetoric of religious polemics : situating Muhammad Imara in the Islamic field -- Rhetoric and religious ideology -- Conclusion.…”
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Survivor Rhetoric : Negotiations and Narrativity in Abused Women's Language. by Shearer-Cremean, Christine

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Rhetoric and Power : the drama of classical Greece / by Crick, Nathan

Table of Contents: “…Homer's Iliad and the epic tradition of heroic eloquence -- Heraclitus and the revelation of logos -- Aeschylus's Persians and the birth of tragedy -- Protagoras and the promise of politics -- Gorgias's Helen and the powers of action and fabrication -- Thucydides and the political history of power -- Aristophanes's Birds and the corrective of comedy -- Plato's Protagoras and the art of tragicomedy -- Isocrates's "Nicocles" and the hymn to hegemony -- Aristotle on rhetoric and civilization.…”
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City of Rhetoric : Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America. by Fleming, David

Table of Contents: “…City of Rhetoric -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. …”
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Dialectical rhetoric / by McComiskey, Bruce, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Historical trajectories of dialectic and rhetoric -- Dialectic in (and out of) rhetoric and composition -- The dimensions of rhetoric -- Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics -- Three-dimensional dialectical rhetorics in digital context.…”
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