Research Article| February 01 2008 Front Matter Rhetorica (2008) 26 (1): C2–iii. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2008.26.1.front Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Front Matter. Rhetorica 1 February 2008; 26 (1): C2–iii. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2008.26.1.front Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Reviews Carlo Franco, Elio Aristide e Smirne (Roma: Bardi Editore 2005) (Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Anno CDU - 2005, Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche. Memorie, serie IX - vol. XIX - fase. 3, pp. 345-584). La monografía di Carlo Franco costituisce il riuscito tentativo di tracciare un profilo storico della città di Smyrna, odierna Izmir, nel II secolo d.C., attraverso l'opera superstite del retore microasiatico di lingua greca Elio Aristide, che in questa città trascorse lunghi anni della propria vita, partecipando attivamente alia política cittadina, insegnandovi l'arte oratoria e impegnandosi in delicate quanto prestigióse relazioni diplomatiche. Come testimoniano le concessioni di importanti riconoscimenti pubblici a personalitá di spicco di quella che va sotto il nome di Seconda Sofistica, la città di Smirne si propose in età impériale come uno dei centri principali dello studio e dell'insegnamento della retorica. Basta sfogliare anche super­ ficialmente le Vitae Sophistarum di Flavio Filostrato per rendersi conto del numero e delFimportanza dei sofisti legati a questa città (Nicete, Scopeliano, Polemone), e della quantità di aneddoti e vicende in essa ambientad aventi come argomento le declamazioni e l'attività dei retori. Data la capacità di attrarre intellettuali da tutto il mondo di lingua ellenica, Smirne fu a lungo in competizione con gli altri due epicentri della produzione sofistica, le città rivali di Pergamo ed Efeso. Il lavoro di Franco mette bene in luce come Elio Aristide rappresenti un terreno privilegiato per lo studio delle vicende smirnee, soprattutto alia luce del suo impegno per la richiesta di finanziamenti all'Imperatore all'indomani del catastrófico terremoto che colpï la polis asiatica nel 178 circa. Nei discorsi che corrispondono aile orazioni 17—21 delFedizione Keil, Aristide fornisce, della città, una rappresentazione indagata da Franco sia sulla base delle rególe interne al genere retorico, sia attraverso il confronto con altri testi e con dati archeologici, numismatici ed epigrafici. La struttura del libro e Forganizzazione dell'esposizione non sono privi di interesse. Dopo una breve Premessa (pp. 349-50) su cui tornero in conclusione , Franco introduce il proprio lavoro (pp· 351—60) anticipando quanto argomentato nei singoli capitoli, senza nascondere la consapevolezza che la propria metodología si confronta con una serie di problemi paradigmatiRhetorica , Vol. XXVI, Issue 1, pp. 85-95, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2008 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI. 10.1525/RH.2008.26.1.85. 86 RHETORICA ci per qualsiasi tentativo di ricostruzione dei contesti dell'eloquenza in età impériale. Le poche pagine (356-60) dedicate alio status quaestionis della ricerca contemporánea sulla Seconda Sofistica mostrano una conoscenza approfondita delle diverse conclusioni a cui sono giunti gli studi recenti, e anticipano in parte ció che verrà affermato nel corso del lavoro e ripreso a conclusione neU'Epz’/ogo (pp. 525-29). Il rapporto Aristide-Smirne—presentato giustamente da Franco senza pretesa di esemplarità, pur nel suo indubbio interesse—viene indagato come fenómeno in cui sono ampiamente osservabili complesse questioni quali i rapporti tra intellettuali e potere nella Roma impériale e tra centro e periferia dell'impero, e quali il ruolo specifico dei retori nelle relazioni tra le città greche e Roma. Contrapponendosi a un filone interpretativo che tende a svalutare il peso dei retori e delle declamazioni in siffatto contesto {in primis Peter A. Brunt), Franco afferma la necessità, per un'adeguata conoscenza dei processi storici concernenti le grandi questioni appena menzionate, di uno studio dei testi della Seconda Sofistica che miri a individuare in essi gli elementi propriamente storici espressi attraverso la trasfigurazione idealizzante (e ideológica) típica della retorica dell'elogio e radicata nella relazione col destinatario del discorso e col suo orizzonte d'attesa. Secondo una proposta di rappresentazione formulata da Laurent Pernot a cui Franco espressamente si richiama, la spécificité di ogni singólo discorso—e quindi i riferimenti contestuali che maggiormente interessano questo studio su Aristide e Smirne—puo essere concepita come l...

La Corée a une longue tradition de pratiques rhétoriques, au moins de plusieurs millénaires, mais la rhétorique comme discipline est relativement récente. Le mot même de [inline-graphic 01i] / susa(hak), terme(s) traduit(s) de «rhétorique» fut emprunté du japonais probablement à l’Époque de l’Ouverture. À partir de l’idée inspirée par la réflexion sur la difficulté à traduire le mot «rhétorique», nous proposons, dans cet article, la rhétorique du dakkeum (approximativement la rhétorique de l’élaboration), qui est partie prenante de la rhétorique généralisée. Nous en montrerons deux exemples saillants: le problème de la mise à l’unisson de l’écrit avec le dao [inline-graphic 02i] (voie, chemin) dans les théories de l’écriture aux Époques du chinois classique et celui de la mise à l’unisson de la langue écrite et de la langue parlée à travers la controverse des écritures à l’Époque de l’Ouverture (à la civilisation occidentale). Comme coda, nous dirons un mot sur l’actualité de la rhétorique du dakkeum en rhétorique coréenne, et sur la possibilité de sa continuation dans les réflexions rhétoriques ainsi quedans les théories rhétoriques.

Cet article se propose d’étudier la notion de color chez Jean de Garlande (De mensurabili musica, ca. 1250). Le théoricien de la musique parle de la polyphonie parisienne (organum) exécutée à la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris à la fin du XIIe siècle en termes d’émotion. Les notions de beauté et de plaisir, étroitement liées à la répétition des sons et à leur reconnaissance, sont au cœur des préoccupations de Jean de Garlande lorsqu’il décrit en quelques lignes la musique chantée. Le color, où répétition et plaisir s’organisent, est une manière habituelle de rendre un chant beau et plaisant et il constitue l’objet d’une véritable consommation affective. Ce savoir-faire éprouvé, envisagé comme un “geste musical” maîtrisé et acquis à force d’entraînement et de répétition, n’a pas seulement une finalité technique: il vise à donner une idée du divin, conformément à l’ambition qui est alors celle de la poésie.

This essay inquires into the meaning and usage of eikos, an important term in early Greek rhetorical theory Based on a survey of 394 uses of the verb eoika (of which eikos is the neuter perfect participle) in texts ranging from Homer to Isocrates, it argues that the traditional translation of eikos as "probability" is in some ways misleading. Specifically, the essay proposes: 1) that "to be similar" is the core meaning of eoika, 2) that all other senses of eoika can be seen as extensions of the "similarity" sense, 3) that the "befittingness" sense of eikos continued to be of great importance in the early Attic orators, and 4) that the sense of eikos as that which is befitting or socially expected, and the sense of eikos as that which is verisimilar, work in tandem in the "profiling" strategy of some eikos arguments.

Comme les plus premiers concepts grecs de topos rhétorique et dialectique, le concept de Cicéron du locus est dans son essence une métaphore qui est gouvernée par les sens divers de lieu. Cicéron utilise la métaphore centrale d’endroit dans une variété de sens pour relier étroitement des concepts rattachés. Je divise ces sens en le taxinomique, l’idéal, le mnémonique, et le logique. Nous pouvons déduire un cinquième sens de locus comme un passage de formule ou cliché qui provient de l’utilisation d’arguments idéalisé quelquefois appelé dans la littérature moderne un lieu commun littéraire ou simplement un lieu commun. Pour distinguer ce sens de l’utilisation de Cicéron de locus communis je l’appelle le sens affectif de locus.

90 RHETORICA studioso in visita alla Turchia contemporánea, una sensazione che conduce, dopo un iniziale sconforto per la constatazione di come la memoria classica risulti sommersa da un magma urbanístico e paesaggistico in buona parte "altro" , ad uno sguardo nuovo e più rispettoso: «E finalmente si incomincia a comprendere 1'Anatolia di oggi e a leggervi senza disagio il segno di quella di ieri, provando a riconoscere, nello studio e nella concretezza della 'au­ topsia', l·unitario intreccio di ellenismo e romanità proprio delle grandi e piccole città d'Asia (p. 349)». Lorenzo Miletti University degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Procopio di Gaza, Panegírico per l'imperatore Anastasio. Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commentario a cura di Giuseppina Matino (Napoli: Quaderni dell'Accademia Pontaniana 41, 2005), 140 pp. Quello di Procopio di Gaza per l'imperatore Anastasio è un testo esemplare fra i panegirici di etá tardoantica. Sospeso, come in genere tutta l'oratoria pubblica di questo particolare periodo storico, fra l'esigenza di educare l'uditorio e la nécessité di celebrare l'ideologia impériale, questo discorso da un lato applica rigorosamente le norme prescritte da Menandro retore in materia, dall'altro diventa, per il suo alto livello letterario, esso stesso modello di stile per gli oratori successivi. Giuseppina Matino (M.), nota specialista della lingua greca di età impé­ riale e tardoantica, propone ora una nuova edizione commentata del Pane­ gírico. Naturalmente la prosa d'arte di questo periodo si presta ad essere indagata soprattutto su due versanti: quello dell'ideologia impériale e quello storico-linguistico. M. assolve ad entrambi i compiti con il consueto rigore metodológico che ne contraddistingue gli studi (mi sia permesso qui citare al­ meno Lingua e pubblico nel tardo antico, Napoli 1986, che col tempo è diventato un vero e proprio piccolo classico del settore). NelYIntroduzione (pp. 13-37), dopo una breve presentazione generale della vita e le opere di Procopio di Gaza, M. passa a presentare il Panegírico: osserva come il pensiero filosófico e politico dello scrittore, pur influenzato fortemente dal neoplatonismo alessandrino, riveli un «sincretismo filosófico tra elementi platonici, stoici, peripatetici e cristiani» (p. 18). Punto focale dell'orazione, da un punto di vista ideológico, è la concezione dell'ideologia impériale: Procopio ne sviluppa in particolare alcune caratteristiche tradizionali , come quelle della φιλανθρωπία dell'imperatore, del suo disprezzo per le ricchezze ed il potere, della sua temperanza e castità. Tutti terni che, pur importanti nella morale cristiana, erano ben presentí nell'etica dei grandi filosofi classici, e permettevano cosí al cristiano Procopio di mettere da parte la propria formazione religiosa al momento di affrontare un genere retorico Reviews 91 impregnato di classicità pagana come quello del panegírico. Salta all'occhio 1 assenza assoluta di citazioni dalle sacre scritture nel nostro testo. M. tratta poi un altro aspetto delicato dell'ideologia impériale che tra­ spare dall'orazione: il rapporto fra Legge e Imperatore. Esso era stato oggetto di serrati dibattiti nel corso del IV secolo, fra chi, come Temistio, identificava la Legge con l'Imperatore, cui tutto è permesso, e retori come Libanio che consideravano il sovrano sottoposto alia Legge. Come dimostra con­ vincentemente M., Procopio supera questa dicotomía con la sua visione dell'Imperatore come «legge vívente»: il suo potere «non puo essere pensato se non in maniera consona alia Legge, ma esso non è al di sopra della Legge» (p. 30). Infine, la circostanza per cui Anastasio non era salito al trono per diritto ereditario permette al retore di sottolineare come per la sua elezione fosse stato necessario l'accordo di piú forze (popolo, esercito, senato), avvenuto sotto la guida di Dio. Vengono preséntate quindi la struttura dell'orazione, l'occasione della sua declamazione in pubblico (l'arrivo a Gaza di un'effige ufficiale dell'imperatore ), e la questione della datazione del testo. M. ripercorre con equilibrio le proposte di datazione avanzate finora per poi suggerire prudentemente un arco temporale fra il 501 e il 506, anno in cui Anastasio riprese la lotta ai Calcedoniani, un avvenimento che appare difficilmente compatibile col quadro pacifico della regione presentato da Procopio. L'analisi della lingua e dello stile dell'autore è precisa...

92 RHETORICA Tu hai ordinato di bruciarle come teste di Idra, affinché esse non nascessero di nuovo, imitando cosí il tuo avo Eracle». Il Commentario (pp. 79-124) sviluppa in profondità i singoli aspetti del testo, soprattutto dal punto di vista storico-culturale e lingüístico, mentre qualcosa di più si poteva fare nella presentazione delle figurae elocutionis, molto spesso nudamente elencate. Se non si voleva indagare in dettaglio la funzione retorica delle singóle figure, forse era meglio sottrarle al commen­ tario e raggrupparle tutte in una tabella, fornendo cosí al lettore un quadro statistico generale della loro frequenza. Arricchiscono il volume, esemplare anche per la correttezza della stampa, due utili indici: di nomi e cose notevoli e dei luoghi antichi citati. Mario Lamagna Università degli Studi di Napoli Roland Meynet, Traité de rhétorique biblique (Rhétorique sémitique IV, Paris: Lethielleux 2007), 717 pp. Nella ricca, problemática Introduction (pp. 9-30), Roland Meynet espone il percorso non semplice che lo ha condotto alla stesura del volume; i suoi numerosi studi sulla Bibbia gli forniscono la necessaria competenza per arrivare alla ridefinizione di una 'retorica bíblica' racchiusa nella forma di un trattato, termine scelto tra i tanti possibili proprio in quanto soddisfa sia Taspetto sistemático che quello didattico. Diversamente da quella classica, la retorica bíblica riguarda solo la dispositio, cioè il modo di comporre, degli autori biblici ed è descrittiva, non prescrittiva: è un'analisi tesa a cogliere le leggi che presiedono l'organizzazione di un testo, la struttura del discorso, non Yornatus o le figure. I numerosi giudizi negativi formulati nel tempo sulla letteratura bíblica sono dovuti all'applicazione di categorie che appartengono alla retorica classica, il che porta a evidenziare incoerenze, contraddizioni, ripetizioni; è necessario invece valutare questi testi secondo una retorica 'altra', quella semítica. Le sue caratteristiche essenziali sono due, indágate entrambe a un tríplice livello: la binarietà nella lingua (infinito assoluto, raddoppiamento di nomi astratti, coppie di parole coordínate che formano un'espressione stereotipata, il merismo, l'endiadi), nel discorso (coppie di nomi presentí in sintagmi diversi, parallelismo dei membri), nell'insieme délia Bibbia (la"deuterosi", cioè la ripetizione come principio di comprensione délia struttura dell'Antico Testamento e articolazione del rapporto tra l'uno e l'altro Testamento) e la paratassi, ancora nella lingua (endiadi), nel discorso (il segmento bimembre, per cui due membri sono semplicemente giustapposti), nell'insieme délia Bibbia (i due testamenti possono sembrare semplicemente giustapposti l'uno all'altro). Il primo capitolo riguarda la storia dell'analisi retorica applicata alla Bibbia {Historique, pp. 31-110): TA. ritiene indispensabile far conoscere al Reviews 93 lettore il percorso compiuto da questi studi, a partiré dai precursori del XVIII secolo, via via ai primi contributi che risalgono all'inizio del XIX secolo, fino al pieno sviluppo nel XX secolo; per ciascuno degli autori sono riportati, oltre ai principi teorici, esempi di pregnante evidenza délia metodología adottata. L'opera si articola, poi, secondo una struttura rigorosa e una ripartizione che si ripete nelle tre parti, Composition, Contexte e Interprétation, ciascuna composta di vari capitoli. I quattro capitoli délia prima parte (Composition) sono dedicati appunto alie questioni che riguardano la composizione dei testi: nel capitolo 2 (Les rapport entre éléments linguistiques, pp. 113-30) c'è un inventario il più com­ pleto possibile dei mezzi linguistici utilizzati dagli autori per costruire i loro testi: sono individuati rapporti di identità (sul piano lessicale (lessemi to­ talmente o parzialmente identici), morfológico (morfemi identici, morfemi di significato comune), sintattico (funzioni sintattiche identiche, costruzioni sintattiche identiche), del ritmo e dei discorso) e rapporti di opposizione (sul piano lessicale, morfológico (pronomi, modalità verbali, modalità nominali, preposizioni e congiunzioni), sintattico e dei discorso). Nel capitolo 3 (Les niveaux de composition, pp. 131-215) sono distinti in maniera accurata i diversi livelli di organizzazione dei testi, daU'unità minimale del segmento fino a quella deU'insieme del libro, e anche oltre. Il sistema proposto è articolato in due insiemi di livello diverso: quello inferiore si articola in membro, formato da uno o più termini; segmento, formato da uno, due o tre membri; brano, formato da uno, due o...

Book Review| November 01 2007 Review: The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900, by Andrew W. Robertson The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900 by Andrew W. Robertson. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xix + 264 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 439–441. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.439 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-1900, by Andrew W. Robertson. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 439–441. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.439 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| November 01 2007 Review: Le Livre de la Rhétorique du philosophe et médecin Ibn Tumlûs (Alhagiag bin Thalmus). Introduction générale, édition critique du texte arabe, traduction française et tables, by Maroun Aouad Le Livre de la Rhétorique du philosophe et médecin Ibn Tumlûs (Alhagiag bin Thalmus). Introduction générale, édition critique du texte arabe, traduction française et tables par Maroun Aouad. Paris: Vrin, 2006. CXXIX + 177 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 446–448. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.446 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Le Livre de la Rhétorique du philosophe et médecin Ibn Tumlûs (Alhagiag bin Thalmus). Introduction générale, édition critique du texte arabe, traduction française et tables, by Maroun Aouad. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 446–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.446 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| November 01 2007 Review: Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine, by Judy Z.Segal Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine by Judy Z. Segal. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Pres, 2005. 208 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 442–443. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.442 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine, by Judy Z.Segal. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 442–443. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.442 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| November 01 2007 Front Matter Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): ii. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.front Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Front Matter. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): ii. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.front Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| November 01 2007 Index to Volume 25 Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 451–454. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.index Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Index to Volume 25. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 451–454. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.index Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This paper analyses Demosthene' self-fashioning in the Philippic cycle as rhetorical process, focussing crucially on the role of foresight as constituent of symbouleutic authority and justification for his uncompromising political line. To legitimate his role as adviser, Demosthenes needed continually to proclaim his own competence. In the early days and before Philip was a major issue, Demosthenes constructs his foresight through “entechnic” arguments based on probability. Over time, self-referential passages that invoke his own prior interventions become notable sites of quasi-“atechnic” self-justification. These are further enhanced by a group of mutually reinforcing images that articulate the need for prudent foresight.

Book Review| November 01 2007 Review: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Hugh Blair Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres by Hugh Blair. Edited by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 444–446. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.444 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, by Hugh Blair. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 444–446. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.444 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay examines linguistic and contextual features to understand Anne Askew's ironic performances, her positioning in rhetorical history, and her texts' persuasive power. While Askew's tactical irony has been studied as silence, resistance, and protest, this essay shows that she uses irony to undermine the communicative event and to initiate discourse without committing to cooperative communication for all audiences involved. I argue that Askew's performances are best accounted for as relevant-inappropriateness, and that a close examination of embedded features in her discourse helps us view Early Modern women's performances as inventive and productive rather than patriarchal or anti-patriarchal.

Book Review| November 01 2007 Review: Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture, by Heinrich F. Plett Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture by Heinrich F. Plett. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 581 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (4): 435–439. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.435 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Review: Rhetoric and Renaissance Culture, by Heinrich F. Plett. Rhetorica 1 November 2007; 25 (4): 435–439. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.4.435 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

This paper analyses Demosthenes’ self-fashioning in the Philippic cycle as rhetorical process, focussing crucially on the role of foresight as constituent of symbouleutic authority and justification for his uncompromising political line. To legitimate his role as adviser, Demosthenes needed continually to proclaim his own competence. In the early days and before Philip was a major issue, Demosthenes constructs his foresight through “entechnic” arguments based on probability. Over time, self-referential passages that invoke his own prior interventions become notable sites of quasi-“atechnic” self-justification. These are further enhanced by a group of mutually reinforcing images that articulate the need for prudent foresight.

444 RHETORICA Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran, eds. Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). In the "Editors' Introduction" to this new edition of Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran present an impressive overview of Blair's life, work, and legacy. They trace the publication, reception, and influence of the Lectures, providing partic­ ularly insightful discussion of the multitude of abridgements and derivative works that represented Blair's work to so many. They sketch Blair's early education and his university training, then lead readers through his life as a preacher, man of letters, and university lecturer. Finally, they assess Blair's place in the history of eighteenth-century rhetorical theory. The "Introduction" provides an authoritative survey of scholarship on some of the key issues related to Blair's work including Blair's influence on the teaching of writing in universities, on the emerging discipline of literary criticism, and on the continuing shift of the focus of rhetorical theory from oral declamation to written language (especially belles lettres). FerreiraBuckley and Halloran's extensive research in archival materials related to Blair's career and published work allows them to contribute new insights to all of these lines of inquiry. This reader found particularly interesting their reminder that Blair's Lectures not only informed later college curricula but also played a significant role in "schools, in literary societies and clubs, and in home study" (xxi). An annotated copy of the Lectures in St. Andrews University's rare book collection, for instance, provides evidence of the ways that individuals studied and used the Lectures, and I wanted to hear more about that body of evidence. Ferreira-Bucklev and Halloran end their Introduction with an innovative analysis of the curious fact that Blair "makes little mention of the works of any of the great visual artists who were his contemporaries" despite his "heavy reliance on visual metaphors and analogies" (xlvi-xlvii). Similarly, they note that Blair says nothing about contemporary music. Despite repeated references to the connections between poetry and music, Blair never acknowledges work by contemporaries such as Handel and Purcell, both of whom had set English poetry to music. While acknowledging that his inattention to contemporary art and music may simply reflect Blair's "pedagogical purpose," the editors argue that the larger significance of these lacunae may lie in the fact that "the printing press had long since created the conditions for a kind of sedentary cosmopolitanism in the textual realm" (xlviii). In short, Blair did not get out of Scotland much and " 'the age of mechanical reproduction' of visual and musical works would not arrive for another century," leaving his "experience, while rich in the literary arts,... impoverished with respect to other media" (xlviii). Through arguments like these, Ferreira-Buckley and Halloran's Introduction suggests new lines of inquiry into Blair's Lectures. Beyond the "Introduction," this volume consists mostly of an edition of the Lectures based on the 1785 London edition, which contained Blair's Reviews 445 corrections to the 1783 first edition. As a textual edition, the volume is something of a puzzle. To he sure, the text seems trustworthy with regard to what textual editors traditionally termed "substantives"—the words of the chosen copy text—but some of the editorial decisions, and the lack of textual apparatus, leave the goals of the edition unclear. The main goal of the volume is to bring the 1785 edition of Blair's Lectures back into print (it was last published in facsimile by Garland in 1970, five years after Southern Illinois University Press published a facsimile of the 1783 edition). While the 1785 edition is no longer in print, the entire text is currently available online (in a searchable facsimile edition) through Gale's Eighteenth-Centun/ Collections Online. (This new edition is also searchable online via Google Book Search, though one can read only a limited number of sample pages on that site.) The editors argue further that to "truly understand Blair's influence, scholars must begin to study differences among editions and abridgments, because what readers took away from Blair's Lectures...

The forensic oratory of classical Athens exhibits two strategies which markedly display their departure from content-specific commonplaces. The self-conscious “meta-topos” and the elaborative “para-topos” are partly reliant upon the display and appreciation of innovation for their persuasive power. This valorization of creativity can be explained by evidence that rhetorical novelty was sometimes encouraged by teachers of rhetoric and was certainly influenced by the competitive display of verse performance genres. Examples of “meta-topoi” and “para-topoi” are discussed with a view to extending our understanding of originality in Attic oratory and of how we might identify instances of it.

446 RHETORICA sensitive passages (one satirizing Samuel Johnson's prose style is particularly cutting)" (xi). Again, one wishes for a textual apparatus that would bring those changes to light. In sum, while the volume does not make a notable contribution to the rich and complex textual history of Blair's Lectures, this is a perfectly usable edition of the text accompanied by an excellent Introduction. H. Lewis Ulman The Ohio State University Le Livre de la Rhétorique du philosophe et médecin Ibn Tunilüs (Alhagiag bin Thalmus). Introduction générale, édition critique du texte arabe, traduction française et tables par Maroun Aouad. Paris, Vrin,«Textes et Traditions», 2006. CXXIX p. + 177 p. ISBN : 978-2-7117-1916-0. 46€. Après une brève présentation d'ïbn Tumlüs (= IT), l'introduction évoque l'importance que revêt le Livre de la Rhétorique d'un point de vue biogra­ phique: ce traité prouve avec évidence—ce qui n'a jamais été fait jusqu'à présent—qu'IT est un disciple d'Averroès puisqu'il a utilisé ici un texte phi­ losophique du Cordouan, le Commentaire moyen à la "Rhétorique" d'Aristote. Le Livre de la Rhétorique est ensuite situé dans l'économie générale de l'Introduction à l'Art de la Logique d'IT (conservé dans un unicum de l'Escurial), dont il occupe environ 20% du nombre total de folios—c'est dire son importance—puis parmi les différentes sciences énumérées par l'auteur dans son prologue (il faut distinguer à ce titre la rhétorique de tradition philosophique et la rhétorique purement arabe, qui s'occupe du style, de la langue, sans trop se soucier de la vérité ou de la vraisemblance de ce qui est dit). Le plan du Livre de la Rhétorique, repris en détail infra (p. CXXIII-CXXIX) et qui a l'avantage de donner une idée générale de ce dont traite IT, est suivi d'une section (p. VI-X) où M. Aouad (= MA) examine avec précision les sources du Livre de la Rhétorique, en ne tenant compte que des convergences littérales (et non doctrinales) qui existent entre IT d'une part et Averroès, al-Fârâbï et Avicenne d'autre part. Les phrases ou expressions communes à IT et aux trois philosophes sont très nettement mises en évidence grâce à une saisie en caractères gras dans de nombreux passages du Livre de la Rhétorique (tous cités dans l'annexe, p. LXXXVIII-CXXII). Il ressort de ces analyses que la source principale d'IT est le Commentaire moyen il la "Rhétorique" d Aristote d’Averroès—et ce, pour l’ensemble du Livre de la Rhétorique—que ses sources secondaires (IT indique lui-même avoir utilisé des «livres») sont Avicenne (Rhétorique du Shifâ ), Averroès (Abrégé de la Rhétorique) et al- Fârâbï [Livre de la Rhétorique)—très majoritairement dans les cinq premiers folios du Livre de la Rhétorique—et qu'IT ne s'est pas directement appuyé sur la traduction arabe de la Rhétorique d’Aristote. MA examine ensuite, citations d'IT à l'appui, le but et la méthode du Livre de la Rhétorique (p. X-XV). Ni commentaire, ni abrégé, ce traité au Reviews 447 statut si particulier se propose de préparer le néophyte à une étude plus poussée de la rhétorique. Si on le compare au reste de la tradition arabe, IT piopose un traitement assez inattendu de la rhétorique: non seulement il ne ménage qu’une place très secondaire à la valeur politique de cet art, mais il procède aussi a une réinterprétation—bien plus profonde que ne fut celle de ses prédécesseurs—des moyens de persuasion à la lumière des sciences juridico-theologiques de 1 Islam. La méthode suivie dans le Livre de In Rhétorique est explicitement présentée par son auteur: utilisation d autres livres, refus de traiter certains points trop particuliers ou procéd...

This essay examines linguistic and contextual features to understand Anne Askew’s ironic performances, her positioning in rhetorical history, and her texts’ persuasive power. While Askew’s tactical irony has been studied as silence, resistance, and protest, this essay shows that she uses irony to undermine the communicative event and to initiate discourse without committing to cooperative communication for all audiences involved. I argue that Askew’s performances are best accounted for as relevant-inappropriateness, and that a close examination of embedded features in her discourse helps us view Early Modern women’s performances as inventive and productive rather than patriarchal or anti-patriarchal.

442 RHETORICA Judy Z. Segal, Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), 208 pp., $50.00 cloth, ISBN 0-8093-2677-9. Humanists who study medical discourse are a diverse crowd. They hail from disciplines ranging from anthropology and bioethics to rhetoric and composition studies. Lacking a lingua franca, these scholars understandably draw from the divergent traditions of their primary fields. What has ar­ guably been missing is a comprehensive account of medical discourse aris­ ing squarely from the rhetorical tradition. University of British Columbia rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal's Health and the Rhetoric ofMedicine fills this void. Demonstrating the heuristic potential of rhetorical principles for un­ derstanding health and medicine broadly construed, Segal offers a series of lucidly-rendered case studies investigating the role of persuasion in shaping patients, practitioners, and illnesses alike. Segal insists on the uniqueness of particular medico-historical moments. In “Chapter One: A Kairology of Biomedicine," she advances “a study of historical moments as rhetorical opportunities" (23). To illustrate kairology's application, Segal traces shifting accounts of the patient narrator from the eighteenth century forward. Her emphasis is not medical history per se, but how medical history reveals the types of persuasion enabled by particu­ lar changes in medicine. Kairology thus informs the rhetorically-focused medical histories to come. However, her analyses derive insights from Ken­ neth Burke and an eclectic mix of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory. Segal presents seven analysis chapters flanked by a theoretically-based introduction and conclusion in a compact 158 pages of text. These build on Segal's previous publications including reprinted portions of three essays. After the opening chapter on kairology, "Chapter Two: Patient Audience, The Rhetorical Construction of the Migraineur" examines how physicians' char­ acterizations of headache patients influence the doctor-patient encounter and preferred treatments. Segal tracks the construction of the migraineur in medical writing from 1873 through the twenty-first century wherein the migraine personality has become situated in pharmacological terms. "Chap­ ter Three: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Pathography" analyzes illness narra­ tives, and their study, as value-laden rhetoric of praise and blame. Segal focuses on three complicating narrators: the pro-anorexia internet narrator who interpellates the community, the resistant narrator of Barbara Ehrenreich who challenges the tyranny of cheerfulness in breast cancer narratives, and the commercialized narrator of Carla Cantor whose hypochondria queststory represents the pathologized subject. "Chapter Four: Hypochondria as a Rhetorical Disorder" unpacks the strategic ambiguity of hypochondriacs' discourse recasting the condition from a medical mystery to a mystery of motive with historical and current examples. In "Chapter Five: A Rhetoric of Death and Dying," the book's most haunting and personal chapter, Se­ gal interrogates end-of-life rhetoric by analyzing dialogue surrounding her Reviews 443 mother's death and advanced care planning interviews to argue that in­ stitutionalized end-of-life encounters structurally impede fair deliberation. "Chapter Six: Values, Metaphors, and Health Policy" awakens the "sleeping" metaphors in health-care-policv rhetoric, exposing the values underlying medicine is war, diagnosis is health, and body as machine, for example. "Chapter Seven: The Problem of Patient 'Noncompliance': Paternalism, Expertise, and the Ethos of the Physician" addresses problems of physician authority as embedded in the terms patient non-compliance, adherence, and concordance. In her concluding section, Segal underscores the rhetorical lexicon's utility for comprehending medicine and health. Segal ably mixes insightful application of principles to particular cases with mid-level theorizing about the place of rhetoric in medicine and health. Although she draws from an interdisciplinary reservoir, her core an­ alytic concepts are well known to suasion scholars: kairos, genre, audience, metaphor, narrative, interpellation, and ethos. A second strength is her at­ tention to intersecting interactional, public, and institutional discourses. Her persistent focus on persuasion, clear prose, and accessible explanation of concepts make this volume a solid choice for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric. It should also be useful for medical human­ ists who want to access rhetorical insights: her book shows how rhetorical thinking can uncover historical particularities while fostering generalized insights. The scope of cases considered is impressive, as are the connections to history of medicine scholarship. One of the...

Reviews Heinrich E Plett, Rhetoric uud Renaissance Culture. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. 581pp. scholars. Most of us excel in one or two areas, but he has contributed valuable work in four different fields: historical and theoretical studies of came to general attention with a substantial monograph (based on his 1969 Bonn doctoral dissertation), Rhctorik dcr Affekte. Enylische Vkirkuuysdsthetik im of the importance given to moving the feelings in English Renaissance rhetoric, an understudied topic at that time, remains worth reading and might have become trulv influential had it appeared in English. Professor Plett had already published a student text, Einfidiruug iu die rhetorische Fextanalyse (Hamburg, 1971), which moved from rhetorical criticism into general linguistics, a mo\ e which he consolidated in Textwissenschaft und Textanalyse. Senuotik, Empiustik, Rhctorik (Heidelberg, 1975), subsequently translated into Rumanian (1983). Plett's latest work on rhetorical theory is Systematische Rhctorik: Konzcpt uud Analysen (Munich, 2000), which attempts a svstematization of rhetorical figures using modern linguistic terminology. In 1977 Plett produced the first of several volumes collecting essays bv himself and other scholars, Rhctorik. Kritischc Positional zum Stand dcr Forschuny (Munich). In consecutive vears he published complementary vol­ umes deriv ing from conferences held at the Zentrum fiir Rhetorik- und Renaissance-Studien that he had founded at the University of Essen, each containing 18 essavs in German, French, and English: Renaissance-Rhetorik. Renaissance Rhetoric (Berlin, New York, 1993; see my review in Renais­ sance Quarterly, 49 [1996]: 438-40), and Renaissance-Poetik. Renaissance poetics (Berlin, 1994). Another conference he organized produced a volume called Die Aktualitdt der Rhetorik (Munich, 1996). Having been so active in providing a forum for other scholars' work, it was only fitting that his colleagues re­ paid his good deeds with one of the best Rhetoric Festschriften of recent years, Rhetorica Movet: studies in historical and modern rhetoric in honor ofEieinrich F Plett, ed. P. L. Oesterreicher and T. O. Sloane (Leiden, 1999). Heinrich Plett's work has always been marked by a wide reading and the diligent use of primary and secondary sources, an important compoRhetorica , Vol. XXV, issue 4, pp. 435-448, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . G2007 by The international Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2007.25.4.435. 436 RHETORICA nent of scholarship which resulted in his producing a wide-ranging primary and secondary bibliography, Englische Rhetorik und Poetik 1479-1660. Eine systematische Bibliographie (Opladen, 1985; see my review, Wolfenbütteler Renais­ sance Mitteilungen, 13 [1989]: 75-80). A decade later Plett issued a corrected and enlarged edition, English Renaissance Rhetoric and Poetics. A Systematic Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources (Leiden, 1995; see my review, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 5 [1998]: 260-65). Professor Plett describes the volume under review, Rhetoric and Renais­ sance Culture, as "the result of more than thirty years' work on Renaissance rhetoric" (p. vii). It is systematically organized (the chapters are labelled "AF "), beginning with an overview of the "Scope and Genres of Renaissance Rhetoric" (pp. 11-84). Then comes the longest chapter, “Poetica Rhetorica. Rhetorical Poetics in the Renaissance" (pp. 85-294), divided into the five stages of composition (inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, actio). The survey widens to take in rhetoric's relationship with the visual arts and with music, in a chapter awkwardly titled "Intermedial Rhetoric" (pp. 295-412). Chap­ ter D, “Poeta Orator: Shakespeare as Orator Poet" (pp. 413-498) consists of five parts, four of which the author has translated from essays published in German between 1981 and 1995. Chapter E, "Iconography of Rhetoric and Eloquence" (pp. 499-552), is profusely illustrated (the volume as a whole con­ tains 94 plates), and is followed by two detailed indices, of names and sub­ jects. The volume is handsomely designed and printed, with a commendably high degree of accuracy. Although the over-all structure is clear, there is an unfortunate degree of overlapping between sections, and the same quotations reappear several times over, often with the...

Reviews 439 Those are a few additions to the documentation of Renaissance rhetoric, in the spirit of the open-minded exchange of knowledge which has distin­ guished all of Professor Plett's work. This is not his best book, but it is one which ev ery serious rhetoric library should have, and one from which few readers will fail to profit. Brian Vickers Andrew W. Robertson, The Language ofDemocracy: Political Rhetoric in the United States and Britain, 1790-7900 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005) xix 4- 264 pp. This is a reissue in paperback, with a new Preface, of a book originally published by Cornell Univ ersity Press in 1995. Readers who missed it the first time around hav e another opportunity to consider an interesting and well-reasoned argument that has significant implications for the history of 19th century British and American rhetoric. Robertson is concerned with political rhetoric, which he further restricts to campaign discourse, largely as reported in newspapers. This is a narrow, reductionist view of the subject that may limit the generalizability of his findings, but it does not damage his argument on its own terms. He examines how political culture evolved in Britain and the United States during the 19th century (between 1790 and 1900). The overall answer is that the audience for politics widened and political discourse became more vernacular. It shifted from a laudatory discourse deferring to men of distinguished character, to a hortatory discourse seeking support for specific policies. It appealed less to an elite audience and more to a popular audience. These changes effectively dissolved the boundary between deliberative and epideictic. Having identified this important change, Robertson seeks to account for it. He finds a significant relationship between newspaper coverage and political practice. Specifically, the evolution of printing technology and the institution of advertising made it possible to sell low-cost newspapers to a large audience. This capacity, in turn, influenced trends in newspaper content. And an emerging understanding of what would satisfy a mass audience affected the practice of politicians. Their talk became focused more on policy and less on character, more on demands for specific outcomes and less on deference to men of exceptional judgment. It became more tense, more intense, more partisan, and more competitive. In 1790 the 18th century norms of genteel discourse were still dominant; by 1900 the basis of 20th century politics had been established. Interestingly, however, this change came later in Britain than in the United States. There was a gradual shift in what the term "the people" was understood to mean. Originally it referred to the educated elite who were 440 RHETORICA assumed to be in agreement with political leaders; gradually it came to designate a larger, more heterogeneous public among whom disagreement was likely and whose support must be won and not assumed. The American political audience had enlarged and considerably democratized by the 1820s, when Andrew Jackson claimed to embody the public will. Not because of his noble character but because of his platform, was he deserving of public support. In contrast, the British debates on reform during the late 1820s and early 1830s took place without an expanded press or public. They were much less populist in character. Yet by mid-century, British editorial writers fused discussion of leaders and their policies, as in the United States. Robertson credits the transplanted American editor William Cobbett with instigating the use of hortatory rhetoric in Britain. While it might seem that evolutions in discourse reflected merely the impersonal forces of economics and technology, Robertson believes that they were solidified by the rhetorical prowess of Abraham Lincoln in the United States and William Ewart Gladstone in Britain. What both men had in common, he argues, was the ability to deliver to an immediate, elite audience a speech that was also (and perhaps primarily) intended to be read by a large and anonymous national audience. In overhearing messages and easily imagining themselves among the audience, the citizenrv became accustomed to thinking that political discourse really was intended for them. From that point, the distinction between politics and entertainment broke down. The emergence of the popular political cartoon in the 1870s is evidence of...

Actors, who deliver the words of playwrights rather than their own, have largely been disregarded by rhetorical scholars despite the fact that the theatrical stage was one of the first arenas in which women struggled to gain public acceptance. A noteworthy public woman in this regard was Sarah Siddons, the late-eighteenth-century actor whose talent and influence led to her recognition as an exemplar of delivery in such rhetorical manuals as Gilbert Austin’s Chironomia (1806) and Henry Siddons’s Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action (1807). This article recovers Siddons’s rhetorical legacy by examining her distinctive delivery style, emotional powers, and maternal performance in public spaces.

Research Article| August 01 2007 Back Matter Rhetorica (2007) 25 (3): 336–337. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.back Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Back Matter. Rhetorica 1 August 2007; 25 (3): 336–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.back Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

After the conference at Luca in 56 BC, where Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey renewed their Triumvirate, Cicero was forced to accept a compromise, which appears in the orations that he delivered to defend both the Triumvirs (De prouinciis consularibus) and his own enemies (defence of Vatinius and Gabinius). In a letter to Lentulus Spinther of December 54, Cicero justified his new political attitude toward the popular leaders. Designed as a plea, this letter, one of Cicero's longest, raises the question: “What similarity is there between a letter and a speech in court or at a public meeting?” (Fam.IX, 21, 1). Relying on the intertextuality of the letter to Lentulus with the oration Pro Plancio, delivered four months previously, this paper considers how Cicero adapts appropriateness and decorum to his addressee and displays a rhetoric that is half way between judicial eloquence and epistolary discourse.

Book Review| August 01 2007 Book Review: Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series, by Lindal Buchanan Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series by Lindal Buchanan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. 202 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (3): 332–334. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.332 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Book Review: Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series, by Lindal Buchanan. Rhetorica 1 August 2007; 25 (3): 332–334. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.332 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| August 01 2007 Front Matter Rhetorica (2007) 25 (3): ii. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.front Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Front Matter. Rhetorica 1 August 2007; 25 (3): ii. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.front Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay offers a reassessment of the reception history of the Latin translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric in the universities and mendicant studia of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. While it accepts James J. Murphy's assertion, originally made in 1969, that Aristotle's Rhetoric was studied as part of moral philosophy, it presents new manuscript and textual evidence of how this work was actually used. It argues for its popularity and importance among later medieval scholastics and suggests we take a more nuanced view of what they understood rhetoric to be.

In his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Hugh Blair works within the tradition of Isocrates, Cicero, and Quintilian in presenting rhetoric as a school subject that forms character and educates in citizenship. But by the terms of his title, “Rhetoric” and “Belles Lettres,” Blair signals a commitment to two different ideals of character—the ideal of civic republicanism of Roman rhetoric, on the one hand, and that of a middleclass, polite culture, on the other. As Blair wrestles with the tensions inherent in his program to reconcile the two in lectures 25–34, he inadvertently dramatizes the transformation from a rhetorical culture to a modern, bourgeois one.

Book Review| August 01 2007 Book Review: The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators, by Joseph Roisman The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators. by Joseph Roisman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 283 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (3): 334–335. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.334 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Book Review: The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators, by Joseph Roisman. Rhetorica 1 August 2007; 25 (3): 334–335. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.3.334 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In his Lectures on Rhetoric mid Belles Lettres, Hugh Blair works within the tradition of Isocrates, Cicero, and Quintilian in presenting rhetoric as a school subject that forms character and educates in citizenship. But by the terms of his title, “Rhetoric” and “Belles Lettres,” Blair signals a commitment to two different ideals of character - the ideal of civic republicanism of Roman rhetoric, on the one hand, and that of a middleclass, polite culture, on the other. As Blair wrestles with the tensions inherent in his program to reconcile the two in lectures 25–34, he inadvertently dramatizes the transformation from a rhetorical culture to a modern, bourgeois one.

332 RHETORICA Darstellung der Entwicklung des Genres Stâdtebeschreibung bzw. Stâdtelob von der Antike bis in Guicciardinis Zeit. Guicciardinis im Titel der Arbeit genanntes Werk (Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferiore, 1567) wird nicht besprochen; wichtigstes Ergebnis für die Forschung zu dieser Schrift dürfte eine gegen Ende gemachte Feststellung des Autors sein: "No feature which one meets within Guicciardini's Descrittione seems to be without precedent." (S.355, Anm.69) Ein hilfreiches Register (S. 356-373) und ein Nachweis der Erstpublikationen der Beitrâge (S.374) beschliefien den Band. Wer ihn zur Gànze oder auch nur in Ausschnitten liest, wird dem Autor Bewunderung für die Breite seiner Interessen, seine Kenntnis der Primàr- und Sekundàrliteratur und die Detailgenauigkeit seiner Analysen nicht versagen. Dabei kônnte man sich auf Melanchthon berufen, welcher in seiner Rhetorik in einem Abschnitt über das Kommentieren sagt: "[...] qui eo est vel usu vel ingenio, ut in auctoribus videre possit, quur hoc loco, quur sic singula tractentur, ilium vehementer probandum censeo." Auch diese Passage ist Classens Analyse natürlich nicht entgangen (vgl. S.264). Johannes Gôbel Universitat Tubingen Lindal Buchanan, Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Ante­ bellum Women Rhetors. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. 202 pp. With the publication of Lindal Buchanan's Regendering Delivery, South­ ern Illinois University Press's Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series has become the national leader in book-length studies of gender and rhetorical performance. While only the seventh in the series, Regendering Delivery is the fourth to deal with this subject (the others are Nan Johnson's Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910, Carol Mattingly's Appropriate [ing] Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America, and Roxanne Mountford's The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces'). Building on these works, Buchanan adds to our understanding of antebellum women's opportunities and strategies for speaking in public, par­ ticularly in three areas: elocutionary instruction for girls in public schools, public speaking occasions for young women in private colleges, and delivery styles of antebellum women activists. A central claim of Regendering Delivery is that throughout history, Amer­ ican women have had far greater access to elocutionary instruction than has been commonly thought. In Chapter 1, "Readers and Rhetors: School­ girls' Formal Elocutionary Instruction," Buchanan offers evidence that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, girls as well as boys were taught elocu­ tion as part of their reading curriculum. Eighteenth-centurv readers such as Reviews 333 Noah Webster s popular American Selection ofLessons in Rending and Speaking included elocutionary instruction (both actio and pronuntiatio) and sample debates and declamations for practice. Textbooks acknowledged schoolgirls as an audience (e.g., through instructions on conduct), making clear that reading and elocution were first thought to be gender-neutral subjects. As Buchanan s analysis shows, it was not until the nineteenth century that sep­ arate readers for girls and hoys were published, with selections from oratory omitted in some hooks for girls. Nevertheless, pronuntiatio continued to be taught, and girls participated in school-sponsored exhibitions in which they spoke before audiences, as Buchanan richly illustrates in Chapter 2. Chapter 2, "Practicing Delivery: Young Ladies on the Academic Plat­ form, ' offers a decisive response to Robert J. Connors's controversial claim that co-education was responsible for the demise of oratory in nineteenthcentury colleges and universities. Buchanan agrees with Connors that there were some changes to the curriculum in the nineteenth century, but disagrees with the reasons Connors offers. Young women spoke before public audi­ ences at school-sponsored events for fifty years prior to 1830, and throughout the nineteenth century women admitted to co-educational institutions such as Oberlin fought for the opportunity to speak in public, sometimes form­ ing their own clubs to practice in private. Weaving together a history from biographies of such famous Oberlin graduates as the Reverend Antoinette Brown, Buchanan establishes that co-education provided women hard won opportunities to develop their oratorical skills, which they later exploited in the fight for women's rights. Chapter 2 includes many interesting glimpses into the compromises forced upon college...

After the conference at Luca in 56 BC, where Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey renewed their Triumvirate, Cicero was forced to accept a compromise, which appears in the orations that he delivered to defend both the Triumvirs (De prouinciis consularibus) and his own enemies (defence of Vatinius and Gabinius). In a letter to Lentulus Spinther of December 54, Cicero justified his new political attitude toward the popular leaders. Designed as a plea, this letter, one of Cicero’s longest, raises the question: “What similarity is there between a letter and a speech in court or at a public meeting?” (Fam. IX, 21 1). Relying on the intertextuality of the letter to Lentulus with the oration Pro Plancio, delivered four months previously, this paper considers how Cicero adapts appropriateness and decorum to his addressee and displays a rhetoric that is half way between judicial eloquence and epistolary discourse.

334 RHETORICA ration" among antebellum women (because Truth's speech was reproduced by Frances Gage). Because Regendering Delivery provides so little analysis of African American women speakers' unique struggles, this relatively uncriti­ cal treatment of white antebellum reformers' relationship to Sojourner Truth is disappointing. Chapter 5 and the conclusion, which would have benefitted from further development, foster confusion over the book's theory of delivery. Nevertheless, this criticism should not deter scholars from picking up this fine book, which makes important contributions to the feminist study of the history of rhetoric. Roxanne Mountford University ofArizona Joseph Roisman, The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 283 pp. A book entitled The Rhetoric ofManhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators was probably as inevitable as was the study of gender and sexuality in the ancient world. As gender studies matured as an academic discipline, the scholarly examination of masculinity could not remain far behind, despite the expected quip that all previous scholarship was "masculine studies." In fact, men's studies forms an important complement to women's studies and deserves to stand as an important element of rhetorical studies as well. Anyone interested in exploring the overlapping fields of rhetoric, on the one hand, and ideologies and practices of masculinity, on the other, will find The Rhetoric ofManhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators an important resource for scholars of ancient rhetoric and rhetorical theory more generally despite the fairly narrow focus revealed by the subtitle. As the full title suggests, Roisman has limited his focus to one genre— ancient oratory—which in turn further limits his study to a roughly onehundred year span of Athenian history, from the late fifth century to the 320s bce. In practice, the focus is even narrower, as this study must inevitably rely most heavily on a small handful of orators (chiefly Demosthenes and Lysias) with the largest corpus of orations. However, this tight methodological lens brings its own benefits, and in fact is less restricting than it might at first appear to be. In the first place, as Roisman himself notes (quoting Loraux), the context for ancient oratory—the political life of the city and its citizens— was so thoroughly imbricated with notions of masculinity that "the true name of the citizen is really aner [man], meaning that sexual identity comes first" (1). Thus what it meant to be a virtuous citizen, friend, and speaker, a benefit to friends and a harm to enemies, can be seen as largely co-terminous within the political and legal arena with what it meant to be a virtuous and capable man in general. Reviews 335 Further, though ancient oratory was once suspect as too rhetorical to be reliable as historical evidence, it is now valued as an important resource precisely because it depends for its effectiveness on its believability to its audience. More than any other genre, oratory had to appeal to beliefs that the audience was willing to accept. This does not mean that orations accurately reflect social practices and behaviors, but it does suggest that they remain within the bounds of what politically active Athenian men thought they and their city valued, and how it ought to put those values into practice. This study of ancient orations turns out to be a particularly valuable resource for self-representations of and for Athenian men. The Athenian masculine ideology that Roisman discovers turns out to be quite broad and complex, including standards of behavior in youth (chapter 1); the roles and responsibilities of the adult male as husband, father, kin, friend, and citizen; the role of shame (chapter 3); the relationship between masculinity and social status (chapter 4); military service (chapter 5); the struggle for power (chapter 6); the negotiation of desire and self-control (chapter 7); the mastery of fear (chapter 8); and old age (chapter 9). Of particular interest for historians of rhetoric in this context are sections devoted to the struggle for political power and assertions of manliness be­ tween speakers and audiences. Roisman reveals not only the value of oratory as a source of information about masculine ideology in ancient Greece but shows as well how oratory was...

This study examines the rhetorical practice of James Forten, an African American activist of the early republic. Focusing on four texts written between 1800 and 1832 for white audiences and considering Forten’s efforts to align white readers with the plight of both free and enslaved American blacks, I explore pathos (particularly as conceived by eighteenth-century Scottish rhetoricians), the suppliant ethos, appeals based on Pennsylvania and U.S. legal and political traditions, and arguments addressing the practical concerns of the audience. Through such analysis, I demonstrate Forten’s pioneering role in the development of African American deliberative rhetoric.

This essay offers a reassessment of the reception history of the Latin translation of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the universities and mendicant studia of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. While it accepts James J. Murphy’s assertion, originally made in 1969, that Aristotle’s Rhetoric was studied as part of moral philosophy, it presents new manuscript and textual evidence of how this work was actually used. It argues for its popularity and importance among later medieval scholastics and suggests we take a more nuanced view of what they understood rhetoric to be.

Reviews Carl Joachim Classen, Autike Rhctorik ini Zeitnltcr des Humanismus. Beitràge zur Altertumskunde 182. München/Leipzig: Saur, 2003. IX, 374 S., Register. Bei den in diesem Band gesammelten Studien handelt es sich um (grôRtenteils überarbeitete) Neupublikationen von überwiegend in den neunziger Jahren erscbienenen Aufsâtzen des vielseitigen Forschers Carl Joachim C(lassen). In ihrer Mehrzahl liefern sie neue Beobachtungen zur Rezeption von Ciceros Reden im europâischen Humanismus. Drei thematische Blocke sind unterscheidbar: Neben chronologisch geordneten, detaillierten Aufrissen der Rezeption der Reden Ciceros im wissenschaftlichen Schrifttum einiger westeuropâischer Lander im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Cicerokommentare bilden den Schwerpunkt der Betrachtungen) stehen Einzeluntersuchungen zur Wirkung Ciceros auf das Werk von Humanisten wie Georg von Trapezunt oder Johannes Sturm. Am Ende des Bandes finden sich schlieRlich Arbeiten zum rhetorischen Werk einzelner Humanisten (Bcbel, Melanchthon, Guicciardini), bei dessen Untersuchung die Cicero-Rezeption nicht im Vordergrund steht. Da die elf Beitràge weder nach chronologischen noch nach thematischen Gesichtspunkten, sondern eher nach solchen der variatio geordnet zu sein scheinen, seien sie hier in der oben skizzierten Reihenfolge besprochen. In den beiden umfangreichen Arbeiten, die den Band eroffnen ("Cicerostudien in der Romania im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert", S.l-71; "Das Studium der Reden Ciceros in Spanien im fünfzehnten und sechzehnten Jahrhundert", S. 72-136), sowie in den Kapiteln VI und VII des Bandes ("Cicero inter Germanos redivivus I", S.189-224, und "II", S.225-245), gelingt dem Autor nichts Geringeres als ein repràsentativer Überblick über das Studium von Ciceros Reden im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert in den Lândern Italien, Frankreich, Spanien und Deutschland. Grund für das Entstehen dieser Aufsàtze war, wie der Autor in seinem kurzen Vorwort (S.VII) andeutet, der ursprüngliche Plan, Ciceros Reden für den Catalogus Cornaientariorura et Translationum (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, I960-) zu bearbeiten. Dieser Hintergrund erklàrt, warum gerade die ersten beiden Kapitel oft den Eindruck ausformulierter Lexikonartikel vermitteln und deshalb gut zur ersten Orientierung zu benutzen sind. Der Durchgang durch die Cicerorezeption in Italien (von Petrarca bis Bembo, S.5-20, mit Rhetorica, Vol. XXV, Issue 3, pp. 329-335, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . G2007 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights re­ served. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Rights and Permissions website, at http://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintlnfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/RH.2007.25.3.329. 330 RHETORICA einem kurzen Ausblick auf das Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts, S.68-71), Frankreich (von Bernard de Chartres bis zum genialen Textkritiker François Hotman , 1524-1590, S.21-68) und Spanien (auf S.81-127 werden mehr als 100 spanische Autoren des 15. und 16. Jh.s kurz vorgestellt) führt C. zu folgenden Thesen (vgl. zusammenfassend S. 190): In Italien münden die vielfâltigen Formen der Cicero-Rezeption im 15. Jahrhundert schlieBlich in ein orthodoxstilistisches Studium Ciceros, welches zur Entwicklung der Nationalsprache beitrâgt. In Frankreich ist das Interesse an antiker Rhetorik ungebrochen, die Universitàten spielen hier aber kaum eine Rolle, sondern es sind oft Autodidakten oder speziell Interessierte (etwa im juristischen Bereich), welche die Cicero-Studien vorantreiben. In Spanien ist das Studium der Antike und speziell Ciceros nie Selbstzweck, sondern steht im Dienste der Erziehung, welche ihrerseits die propagatiofidei zum Ziel hat. Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die Cicero-Rezeption, wie C.s Untersuchungen zum Umgang mit Cicero bei Humanisten wie P.Luder, R.Agricola, J.Wimpfeling, H.Bebel und J.Locher (Kap.VI) und in Cicero-Kommentaren von B.Latomus, Ph.Melanchthon, J.Sturm, Pde la Ramée und einigen ihrer Nachfolger zeigen (Kap.VII), weniger durch die Debatte um den sogenannten Ciceronianismus als vielmehr durch die Bedürfnisse der Schule geprâgt; diese veranlassen viele Kommentatoren dazu, Ciceros Reden gleichsam als Steinbrüche für stilistisch vorbildliche Phrasen zu gebrauchen. C.s wertvolle Hinweise auf solche "Didaktisierungen" Ciceros machen auf ein weites Forschungsfeld aufmerksam und wàren durch Untersuchungen zum Umgang mit Cicero im deutschen schulischen und universitàren Lehrbetrieb des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts zu ergànzen, welche bislang noch kaum durchgeführt sind. Erg...

Book Review| May 01 2007 Book Review: Rhetoric in Antiquity, trans. W. E. Higgins, by Laurent Pernot Rhetoric in Antiquity, trans. W. E. Higgins a cura di Laurent Pernot. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xiv + 269 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (2): 205–209. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.2.205 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Book Review: Rhetoric in Antiquity, trans. W. E. Higgins, by Laurent Pernot. Rhetorica 1 May 2007; 25 (2): 205–209. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.2.205 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2007 Book Review: Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources, by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources. edited by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 402 pp. Rhetorica (2007) 25 (2): 218–219. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.2.218 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Book Review: Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources, by Michelle Ballif and Michael G. Moran. Rhetorica 1 May 2007; 25 (2): 218–219. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2007.25.2.218 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © The International Society for the History of Rhetoric2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract The celebrated inventor of the “Ocular Harpsichord” is less well known as the author of Mathématique universelle, published in 1728. In this work, the Jesuit teacher develops a cheerful method of instruction in inspired by his desire to popularize a discipline hitherto marked with the seal of austerity. In order to clear away the illusory superiority of professional geometers, Father Castel makes argumentative breaks from tradition, aiming to devalue the ethos of contemporary mathematicians. Through textual analysis of certain rhetorical professions such as candid directness (aretè), ostentatious goodwill (eunoia) and, in a more general sense, the dissociation of appearance from reality, the present study seeks to place in evidence certain ethical concerns which were shaking Jesuite learned world in its confrontation with the new epistemology of the century of the Enlightenment.