Book Review| August 01 2006 Book Review: Bernhard Hirschvelders Briefrhetorik (Cgm 3607). Untersuchung und Edition. Deutsche Literatur von den Anfängen bis 1700, by Jürgen Fröhlich Bernhard Hirschvelders Briefrhetorik (Cgm 3607). Untersuchung und Edition. Deutsche Literatur von den Anfängen bis 1700. edited by Jürgen Fröhlich. Bern u. a.: Peter Lang, 2003. 42 pp. Rhetorica (2006) 24 (3): 325–329. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.3.325 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: Bernhard Hirschvelders Briefrhetorik (Cgm 3607). Untersuchung und Edition. Deutsche Literatur von den Anfängen bis 1700, by Jürgen Fröhlich. Rhetorica 1 August 2006; 24 (3): 325–329. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.3.325 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 Rhetoric2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| August 01 2006 Front Matter Rhetorica (2006) 24 (3): iv. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.3.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 August 2006; 24 (3): iv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.3.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.

Beginning with Roland Barthes’ “The Old Rhetoric: an aide-memoire” (1964–65), semioticians have shown a remarkable interest in the history of rhetoric. Writers like Barthes, Tzevtan Todorov, Gérard Genette, and Paul Ricoeur have offered accounts of rhetoric’s past that invariably concluded with rhetoric’s demise and its replacement with semiotics. These writers typically portray rhetoric’s history as one of a brief rise followed by a very long decline, a pattern, says Todorov, of “splendor and misery.” This essay examines the semioticians’ predictions of rhetoric’s demise as well as semiotics’ attempt to claim elements of rhetoric as its own. The essay concludes by considering the present state of semiotics’ aspiration to supersede rhetoric as a theory of language and human affairs.

Dans la Vie d’Attila, composée par le patriote et homme d’église hongrois Miklos [Nicolaus] Oláh (1493–1568), figurent plu-sieurs discours du personage. Le style d’Attila le Hun, le trait le plus frappant de ces harangues, ne saurait être mieux décrit que par les termes de “style Cicéronien élevé”—d’où le titre: Cicero hunnicus. Cette communication établit comment la rhétorique d’Attila sert une stratégie d’réhabilitation: par ce moyen, Oláh defend l’image de son héros (et du peuple hongrois). En conclusion, sera equissée une réflexion sur la façon dont on a pu tenter, au XVIe siècle, de fonder l’identité nationale sur des assises rhétoriques.

332 RHETORICA Adriano Pennacini, Forme del pensiero. Studi di retorica classica, a cura di Edoardo Bona e Gian Franco Gianotti (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2002), 449 pp.«The advent of Christianism in the form of Catholicism, the victory of St. Ambrosius against Symmachus in the battle for the liberty and preservation of paganism and the position of State religion that Christianism acquired in the same years, transformed the status of the Roman citizen by introduc­ ing a basic requirement consisting of being Catholic. Since the fall of the Western Roman Empire until the French and American revolutions, religion remained a decisive element for citizenship. Before the Reformation, only Catholic religion; after the Reformation, cuius regio eius religio. A perverted and perverse use of the locus of quality, completed by the locus of uniqueness and reinforced by the locus of authority, with the premise, often implicit, that Catholic religion is the only true religion, offered the basis for an abnormal developing of ethnic and cultural differences derived and founded upon re­ ligions». Con queste parole, appassionate e amare, si chiude (p. 445) Tultimo saggio contenuto nella raccolta di scritti di Adriano Pennacini, raccolta con la quale i colleghi editori, Gian Franco Gianotti e Edoardo Bona, hanno voluto testimoniare Paffetto ed in qualche modo il dispiacere, ovviamente non solo personale, in occasione delle dimissioni (anticipate) di Pennacini dal servizio attivo di professore nell'universita di Torino (cfr. Prefazione di G.F. Gianotti, Retorica classica e scienzc della eomunicazione, pp. V-IX). Il saggio di cui ho citato la conclusione, Arguments about ethnical and cultural differences in ancient and modern oratory costituiva I'opening address al Symposium on rhetoric: persuasion and power, tenutosi a Cape Town dall'll al 13 luglio 1994. Adriano Pennacini aveva appena portato a termine il biennio di presidenza (1991-1993) della International Societv for the Historv of Rheto­ ric. La raccolta di saggi costituisce, in realta solo una piccola parte del contributo culturale e civile di Pennacini, fatto non solo di studi, ma anche di pratiche, di innovazioni didattiche, di idee generose per svecchiare l'impostazione tradizionale degli studi di antichistica. La bibliografia di Pen­ nacini (pp. XI-XVI), d'altra parte, offre l'eloquente riprova di un'attivita che va dall'organizzazione di convegni e volumi sulla retorica, tra antico e modemo , alia recente traduzione italiana, con testo a fronte, note e aggiornamenti , della Institutio oratoria di Quintiliano, per i tipi di Finaudi, coordinata da Pennacini con numerosi, validi collaborator! (cfr. la recensione di G.B. Conte in «Rhetorica» 22, 2004, pp. 297-300). Il volume Forme del pensiero raccoglie 25 saggi, apparsi tra il 1955 (Cercida e il secondo cinismo, pp. 3-22) e il 1998 (il saggio citato all'inizio, apparso in Studi di retorica oggi in Italia 1997, Bologna 1998), che rappresentano la parte piu consistente degli studi—come suggerisce il sottotitolo del volume—di retorica classica. La dizione 'retorica classica' si offre in realta ad un'interpretazione estensiva. Essa comprende, infatti, sia la teoria e i suoi tecnografi (Cicerone e Quintiliano in primo luogo, ma anche Frontone, accanto all'utilissimo L'arte della parola pp. 345-388, una breve storia della retorica romana), che la rhetorica utens, per cost dire (autori Reviews 333 e generi délia produzione culturale greca e latina: Lucilio, Persio e la satira; Tibullo e l'elegia; il romanzo latino, 1 epistolografia; Bione di Boristene tra retorica e filosofía; Vitruvio tra retorica e scienza). Ma non tralascia, d'altra parte, né 1 analisi particolare délia strumentazione técnica propria délia reto­ rica, in senso direi trasversale (il locus amoenus; figure di pensiero nell'oratoria di Catone Maggiore; strutture retoriche nelle biografié svetoniane; il paté­ tico nella narrazione virgiliana del mito di Orfeo e Puso dell'apostrofe nel discorso di Didone del IV libro delPEnéide), né alcuni problemi di definizione a proposito dei testi antichi, e qui la retorica diviene strumento di comprensione délia fattura di un testo e, per converso, délia sua tradizione in età moderna, anche attraverso il ricorso alla nuova tecnología elettronica (pensó, in particolare, ai contributi Le fragment comme enchatillon, pp. 73-77; Analyse structurale et recherche computationelle, pp...

Recent studies in comparative rhetoric have brought much needed attention to traditions of rhetoric in non-Western cultures, including many in Africa. Yet the exclusive focus on contemporary African cultures limits understanding of the history of rhetoric in Africa. Although extensive data on African antiquity is lacking, we know that early Nubian and Ethiopian cultures were highly civilized, socially and politically. Literacy in the ancient cities of Napata, Meroe, and Axum, and in the medieval city of Timbuktu suggests that black Africa was not exclusively oral and not without recourse to a means of recording its uses of language. This essay adds a historical dimension to comparative studies of rhetoric in Africa, showing the depth and complexity of this little known aspect of African civilizations.

Reviews Jurgen Frohlich: Bernhnrd Hirsclwelders Briefrhetorik (Cgm 3607). Untersuchung und Edition. Deutsche Literatur von den Anfangen bis 1700: 42 (Bern u. a.: Peter Lang, 2003). Als "Bernhard Hirschvelders Briefrhetorik" bezeichnet Jurgen Frohlich in seiner Essener Dissertation eine Sammlung von Texten aus dem Bereich der mittelalterlichen Brieflehre (Ars dictandi / Ars dictaminis) in der Handschrift Cgm 3607 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. Im einzelnen handelt es sich um eine deutschsprachige Ars dictandi mit dem lateinischen Titel Modus epistolandl (foil. lr-31v), nachgetragene Musterbriefe und -urkunden (foil. 32r-34v), eine deutsche Synonyma-Sammlung (foil. 35r54v ) sowie eine Sammlung von teilweise sehr umfangreichen Briefformeln (foil. 55r-68v). Der in der zweiten Halfte des 15. Jahrhunderts in Straubing, Nordlingen und Niirnberg als deutscher Schulmeister und Schreiber nachweisbare Bernhard Hirschvelder nennt sich in einer Vorrede auf fol. 36r als Urheber des folgenden Traktats (gemeint ist offenbar die SynonymaSammlung ): Obwohl nur ein schlecfit ainfeltiger lay habe er sich vorgenommen , einen prauchlidien und vasst nutzlich kleinen tractatzu componieren ("einen brauchbaren und sehr nutzlichen Traktat zusammenzustellen"). Dais Bernhard Hirschvelder der Autor auch der anderen Texte der Handschrift oder zumindest ihr Schreiber war, laBt sich nicht mit Sicherheit sagen; ob bei den sehr konventionalisierten und in engen Traditionslinien stehenden Texten iiberhaupt von Autorschaft im engeren Sinn die Rede sein kann und mufi, ist ohnehin fraglich. Jurgen Frohlich jedenfalls suggeriert mit seinem Buchtitel die Urheberschaft Hirschvelders, ohne dafiir eine Begriindung liefern zu konnen, die fiber die bisherige Forschungslage hinausgeht. Nicht sehr gliicklich gewahlt ist die Bezeichnung "Bnefrhetorik" im Titel der Arbeit. Zwar werden Brieflehren (Artes dictandi) im Mittelalter als "Rhetoriken " bezeichnet, aber das Spezifische der mittelalterlichen Ars dictaminis wird man weder verstehen, wenn man von der auf die mundliche Rede ausgerichteten antiken Rhetorik her denkt (deren Begriffe und Kategorien die Ars dictaminis freilich adaptierend ubernimmt), noch wenn man einen weiten , modernen Rhetorikbegriff zugrunde legt, der "Rhetorisches" medienunabhangig in jeder auf Wirkung ausgerichteten sprachlichen AuBerung erkennt; auch eine literarische Rhetorik ist nicht gemeint. Insofern sich die Rhetorica, Vol. XXIV, Issue 3, pp. 325-333, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2006 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 www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. 326 RHETORICA mittelalterliche Ars dictaminis mit dem Brief - vor allem mit dem offiziellen Brief als Instrument von Herrschaft und Verwaltung sowie dem Geschaftsbrief - befafit, reflektiert sie Bedingungen, Moglichkeiten und Erfordernisse schriftgebundener Kommunikation an einem Gegenstand, bei dem die Funktion von Schrift als Substitut mundlicher Rede noch mit einiger Deutlichkeit erkennbar ist. Damit versteht sich die Ars dictandi mindestens auch als Lehre von der Ubertragung mundlicher in schriftliche Kommunikation (und unterscheidet sich insofern durch den Aspekt des Medienwechsels grundsatzlich von der antiken Rhetorik, was Frohlich in dem entsprechenden Kapitel allerdings nicht ausreichend reflektiert, S. 23-28). Solche Ubertragungen waren in der von Mundlichkeit gepragten mittelalterlichen Welt brisant und erforderten deshalb verlaBliche Regeln. Nicht umsonst nehmen in mittelalterlichen Artes dictandi Begrufiungsformeln (snlutationes) breiten Raum ein: Es handelt sich dabei um die Versprachlichung \ron Ritualen, in denen ublicherweise soziale Hierarchien verdeutlicht und stabilisiert werden (Kniefall, Verbeugung, Reihenfolge der BegruBung u. a.). In deutschsprachigen Ar­ tes dictandi, die ab dem 15. Jahrhundert aufkommen und denen der Modus epistolandi im Cgm 3607 zuzurechnen ist, nehmen Fragen der sprachlichen und kommunikativen Umsetzung \'on sozialen Hierarchieverhaltnissen den bei weitem breitesten Raum ein. Frohlichs Buch bietet neben einigen einleitenden Kapiteln (S. 15-88) einen weitgehend seitengetreuen Abdruck der 68 Blatter umfassenden Handschrift (S. 97-223) sowie einen Stellenkommentar ("Anmerkungen zum Editionsteil ", S. 227-258), dessen Erklarungsdichte und -tiefe fur den Benutzer jedoch nur schwer nachzuvollziehen sind. Nirgends wird gesagt, was der Leser in diesem Anmerkungsteil erwarten darf und was Frcihlich systema­ tised dokumentieren will. Tatsachlich steht bier in hunter Mischung zusammen , was iiblicherweise auf einen Lesartenapparat, eine editionsgeschichtliche Forschungsdok ' .........................................erten Kommentar verteilt sem soille. Aber in alien drei Bereichen bleiben die Anmerkungen vóllig unzureichend: So werden etwa Personen- oder Geschlechternamen ge- ^ legenthch erlàutert (z. B. S. 231, Anm. 66), in den meisten Fallen aber bleiben sie unkommentiert. Nicht nur fur Datierungsfragen ist es aber unabdingbar, daBjede erwàhnte Person historisch identifiziert und entsprechend...

Reviews 329 Analyse verdeutlicht sich die zentrale Stellung von Hirschvelders modus epistolundi ." (S. 71). Auch hier wird der Begriff "überlieferungsgeschichtlich" falsch verwendet, und die Behauptung einer Spannung zwischen Latinitàt und Humanismus laPt sich wohl nur als unsinnig qualifizieren. Ich breche an dieser Stelle ab, ohne auf Details weiter einzugehen ("Ausgew àhlte Folii (!)", S. 287; "Peter Zainer" statt Johann Zainer, S. 326; kein Nachweis von GW-Nummern bei Inkunabeln, GW fehlt auch im Literaturverzeichnis ; Überbewertung von Wasserzeichenbefunden für Datierungsfragen , S. 55 u.ô.; unbrauchbarer Vergleich mit Sangspruchdichtung Boppes, S. 84). Letztlich bleibt als Mehrwert der Arbeit gegentiber der bisherigen Forschung allein der Textabdruck, der einen für Germanisten und (Bildungs-) Historiker interessanten Textbestand verfügbar macht und dem einen oder anderen die Reise nach München oder die Bestellung eines Microfilms erspart . Auch hier wird man allerdings fragen dürfen, ob der Hinweis auf die Richthnieii fiir die Edition lundesgescluchtlieher Quellen von Walter Heinemeyer (2. Aufl. Hannover: Selbstverlag des Gesamtvereins der Deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine, 2000) als editionstheoretische Grundlage für eine germanistische Edition ausreichend ist. Insgesamt genügt das Buch den Anforderungen, die an eine historisch-philologische Arbeit gestellt werden müssen, nicht. Albrecht Hausmann Georg-Angust-Universitat Gottingen Michel Meyer, Lu rhétorique (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004), 130 pages, ISBN 213053368X. As its title Lu rhétorique suggests, this little book has large ambitions only the most seasoned rhetorician can entertain seriously. And Michel Meyer is certainly that. Successor to Chaim Perelman in the Rhetoric Chair at the Brussels Free University and author of at least 16 related books (4 of which have been translated into English), Meyer is unarguably a leading figure in the fields of rhetoric and argumentation, especially in continental Europe. So Meyer clearly has the authority to take on such an ambitious project. The question is how successful is he in this case. Clearly the book is a success insofar as it succinctly summarizes and updates the original theory of rhetoric Meyer has been working on for at least twenty-five years. Judged on its novelty in comparison to his previously published work and judged by its potential impact in the field of rhetorical studies and beyond, my assessment is less rosy. First the strengths, which are substantial. Written for the popular series "Que sais-je?" (PUF) that seems to greet you just inside the door of every French bookstore, Lu rhétorique covers the field in a manner well designed for the educated nonexpert, and it does so in the systematic fashion that has become a hallmark of Meyer s work. After 330 RHETORICA defining rhetoric on page 10 as "the negotiation of the difference between individuals on a given question" (la rhétorique est la négociation de la différence entre des individus sur une question donnée), Meyer then recasts the entire history and theory of rhetoric from this point of view. And he does so with the confidence that can only come well into a lifetime of focused inquiry, when relevant hot points have been thought and rethought in a variety of contexts and with a variety of audiences in mind. Ancient rhetoric is recast to highlight Aristotle's placement of ethos, pathos, and logos on equal footing (versus those who would privilege the audience, the orator, or the speech); rhetoric's later history is briefly traced as it is "metastasized" in literature, politics, poetics and so on; a call is made for rhetoric's reunification in a systematic theory; and then Meyer delivers that theory with a final demonstration of how it can be used to recast our understanding of the human sciences, the study of literature, and the modern phenomena of propaganda and publicity. Quite a project in 123 pages! And no wonder it is not entirely successful. But let me further elaborate the strengths. Most important is Meyer's thorough commitment to question-andanswer as the motivating structure of all discourse. This perspective trulv sets him apart from both the classical rhetoricians he most admires, such as Aristotle, and his more immediate influences in the field of argumentation theory, such as Stephen Toulmin and Chaim Perelman, it is this perspective that leads to Meyer...

Abstract Rhetorical decisions, including the commitments of friendship and love, are responsive to the world without being determined by it. Therefore the dilemma: when we try to articulate our commitments we wind up talking either about ourselves—as though our decisions were not responsive to the world, but simply a matter of will—or about the evidence—as though our decisions were determined by the nature of things, reducing commitment to reason. The Lysis dramatizes the rhetorical nature of commitment by raising questions about the relation between being a friend and being able to talk about friendship and give reasons for one's friendship.

Abstract This paper argues against the tendency to interpret Gorgias' view of logos as a techne of persuasion which relies on opinion (doxa) and rests on deception either deliberately or incidentally in order to function. Rather, Gorgias appears to be making a connection between truthful speech (alethes logos) and correct speech (orthos logos). Gorgias' insistence on correctness of speech surfaces not only in the Encomium of Helen, but also in the Funeral Oration fragment and in Agathon's parody of Gorgianic rhetoric in Plato's Symposium. Correct speech goes beyond the effectiveness of language and into the domain of ethical correctness and responsibility.

Abstract This article considers the difficulties faced by Quintilian in classifying and understanding apostrophe. He treats it as both a figure of thought, with examples from oratory, and a figure of speech, with examples from Virgilin which the narrator addresses characters of the poem. By inserting the otherwise unobtrusive narrator into the narrative, the effect of the Virgilian examples is to collapse the distinction between narration and narrative. Since Quintilian does not have this means of linguistic analysis at his disposal, he defines apostrophe as a figure of speech by bringing it into relation with other figures that also produce an effect of rupture at the level of narration, and he uses other oppositions that offer an imperfect treatment of the problem.

Book Review| May 01 2006 Book Review: La potenza della parola. Destinatari, funzioni, bersagli, Atti del convegno di studi (Siena, 7–8 maggio 2002), by S. Beta La potenza della parola. Destinatari, funzioni, bersagli, Atti del convegno di studi (Siena, 7–8 maggio 2002) a cura di S. Beta, ed.. Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2004. 179 pp. Rhetorica (2006) 24 (2): 217–223. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.217 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: La potenza della parola. Destinatari, funzioni, bersagli, Atti del convegno di studi (Siena, 7–8 maggio 2002), by S. Beta. Rhetorica 1 May 2006; 24 (2): 217–223. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.217 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 Rhetoric2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Research Article| May 01 2006 Front Matter Rhetorica (2006) 24 (2): ii–iv. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.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 May 2006; 24 (2): ii–iv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.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| May 01 2006 Back Matter Rhetorica (2006) 24 (2): 233. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.back 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 Back Matter. Rhetorica 1 May 2006; 24 (2): 233. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.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. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2006 Book Review: Ars/Techne. Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Atti del Convegno (Chieti, 29–30 ottobre 2001), a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003, pp., by Maria Silvana Celentano and Skhèma/Figura. Formes et figures chez les anciens. Rhétorique, philosophie, littérature, by Maria Silvana Celentano, Pierre Chiron and Marie-Pierre Noël Ars/Techne. Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Atti del Convegno (Chieti, 29–30 ottobre 2001), a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003, pp. a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003. Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'antichità, Università Chieti-Pescara – Sezione Filologica 2), vi, 240 pp.Skhèma/Figura. Formes et figures chez les anciens. Rhétorique, philosophie, littérature edited by Maria Silvana Celentano. Pierre Chiron. Marie-Pierre Noël. Paris: Ens-Éditions rue d'Ulm, 2004. Études de Littérature ancienne, 13), 384 pp. Rhetorica (2006) 24 (2): 223–232. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.223 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 Book Review: Ars/Techne. Il manuale tecnico nelle civiltà greca e romana. Atti del Convegno (Chieti, 29–30 ottobre 2001), a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003, pp., by Maria Silvana Celentano and Skhèma/Figura. Formes et figures chez les anciens. Rhétorique, philosophie, littérature, by Maria Silvana Celentano, Pierre Chiron and Marie-Pierre Noël. Rhetorica 1 May 2006; 24 (2): 223–232. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.2.223 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 Rhetoric2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Rhetorical decisions, including the commitments of friendship and love, are responsive to the world without being determined by it. Therefore the dilemma: when we try to articulate our commitments we wind up talking either about ourselves—as though our decisions were not responsive to the world, but simply a matter of will—or about the evidence—as though our decisions were determined by the nature of things, reducing commitment to reason. The Lysis dramatizes the rhetorical nature of commitment by raising questions about the relation between being a friend and being able to talk about friendship and give reasons for one’s friendship.

Reviews 223 In conclusione, il volume si presenta come un dialogo su ció che la parola fn in situazioni e in culture diverse, nía che possono essere compárate tra loro con risultati significativi. É un dialogo che giunge ad alcune risposte, ma che soprattutto ci spinge a porre domande nuove ai testi delle culture antiche, con un'apertura sperimentale giá ben consolidata di fronte alie sollecitazioni delle discipline linguistiche e antropologiche, da cui i classicisti oggi non possono prescindere. Una nota finale sulla redazione. II volume é curato in maniera attenta, con una introduzione di Simone Beta (pp. 7—14) che, a partiré dal verso omerico dove sono associati erga e mythoi come le due sfere d'azione in cui si manifestano le virtú degli eroi (//. 9, 443), illustra con chiarezza il percorso e le diramazioni della discussione. Qua e la é rimasta qualche piccola svista trascurabile, come Jack per John a p. 9 o come la ripetizione della medesima citazione da Varrone a p. 47 e alia nota 46. La scelta della bibliografía única alia fine contribuisce a daré la percezione dell'unitá del volume. Un indice analítico anche di poche voci forse poteva essere utile per ripercorrere rápidamente i contatti teorici tra i diversi interventi. Alberto Camerotto Universitá Ca' Foscari di Venezia Ars/Techne. II manuale técnico nelle civilta greca c romana. Atti del Convegno (Chieti, 29-30 ottobre 2001), a cura di Maria Silvana Celentano (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003, Collana del Dipartimento di Scienze dell'antichitá, Universitá Chieti-Pescara - Sezione Filológica 2), vi, 240 pp. Skhéma/Figura. Formes et figures chez les anciens. Rhétorique, philo­ sophie, littérature, textes édités par Maria Silvana Celentano, Pierre Chiron et Marie-Pierre Noël (Paris: Ens-Éditions rue d'Ulm, 2004, Études de Littérature ancienne, 13), 384 pp. I due volumi in questione hanno stretti legami, da qui l'opportunitá di darne insieme un resoconto. Una prima osservazione che coglie chi abbia concluso la lettura del primo, dedicato al manuale técnico nella civilta greca e romana, riguarda la sua effettiva aderenza al tema, con il risultato raggiunto di una compattezza decisamente insólita per un volume miscellaneo: il libro riesce perfettamente a concillare Lassoluta scientificitá di ogni singólo contributo e soprattutto il suo intrínseco valore all'interno di ogni ámbito specifico rispetto ad autori diversi e problemi singolari con la pertinenza assoluta al tema proposto. Questa qualitá s'impone a maggior ragione se si considera l'ampiezza e la rilevanza del tema stesso, che avrebbe potuto esporre a tentazioni centri fughe, mentre invece qui c é da un lato ricchezza di prospettive e dall altro 224 RHETORICA unitarietà. Ne viene un contributo alla storia délia retorica come scuola dove, attraverso i manuali qui indagati, avviene la trasmissione del sapere e si tramandano quei quadri di pensiero, quelle griglie concettuali che dalla retorica antica sono passati alhuniverso mentale europeo. Un breve riassunto dei contenuti puo farci seguire le fila di un percorso che è utile e affascinante. Si tratta dunque dei manuali tecnici su cui si fondava, per l'insegnamento , la cultura antica. Oltre al fatto che la retorica occupava il posto principale nel sistema scolastico antico, c'è poi da considerare che questa ars si distingueva non sempre chiaramente dalla grammatica e dalla poética, che spesso inglobava in sé, e che inoltre spesso il fine délia scuola era la preparazione di un futuro oratore; con il che non ci si stupisce che i manuali con cui ci si trova a fare i conti siano soprattutto quelli retorici. I primi tre studi sono relativi al mondo greco e ruotano tutti in qualche modo intorno alla figura, per molti aspetti fondatrice di tecJine, di Isocrate, considerando tuttavia delle tensioni attorno all'aspetto técnico appunto délia retorica, verso il quale proprio il grande oratore non sembra avéré troppa simpatía, se una sua famosa testimonianza getta il biasimo proprio sui maestri délia generazione a lui precedente e la loro pretesa di insegnare a perorare le cause. Cosí M.P. Noël (La place du judiciaire dans les premières τέχναι λόγων, pp. 1-15) ricostruisce, muovendosi tra Gorgia e...

John Donne's sermonizing ethos is a masterful creation, incorporating his individuality as poet and priest into a larger identity consonant with his interpretation of Christian doctrine. The role is also consistent with a dense and complicated style that has both troubled and fascinated readers through the centuries. This essay argues that Donne's ethos, while reflecting a penitential stance that has misled some readers, could have been fashioned to reveal his priestly view of Christ, whose image as "Delegate of the Trinity" extends beyond the Gospel into the whole of Scripture and catholic tradition.

This article considers the difficulties faced by Quintilian in classifying and understanding apostrophe. He treats it as both a figure of thought, with examples from oratory, and a figure of speech, with examples from Virgilin which the narrator addresses characters of the poem. By inserting the otherwise unobtrusive narrator into the narrative, the effect of the Virgilian examples is to collapse the distinction between narration and narrative. Since Quintilian does not have this means of linguistic analysis at his disposal, he defines apostrophe as a figure of speech by bringing it into relation with other figures that also produce an effect of rupture at the level of narration, and he uses other oppositions that offer an imperfect treatment of the problem.

Reviews La potenza della patota. Destmatan, fimziotii, bersagli, Atti del convogno di studi (Siena, 7-8 maggio 2002), a cura di S. Beta, (Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2004), 179 pp. La potenza della parola è un agile volume, sesto tra i Quadernidel ramo d'oro, ed è il frutto di uno dei convegni organizzati dal Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi Antropologici sulla Cultura Antica dell'Università di Siena, che per istituzione coniuga discipline e approcci scientifici diversi per lo studio del Mondo Antico. Il tema è—come indica il titolo—quelle della parola efficace e dei suoi funzionarnenti sulle tracce in particolare delle teorie sugli speech acts del filosofo del linguaggio J. L. Austin (How to Do Things with Words, Oxford 1962) e dei più recenti sx iluppi dell'antropologia del linguaggio. I contributi spaziano dall'epica omerica al profetismo africano e aile odierne campagne elettorali americane. Ma alla diversité di culture e di approcci corrisponde una notevole interazione tra gli studiosi, che ha trovato la sua gestazione prima e durante il convegno, e poi ancora nella fase di redazione del volume (tra le moite indicazioni v. pp. 15 n. 1, 133-35, 149 n. 1). In particolare rappresenta un punto di convergenza di interessi e di prospettive di analisi per tutti gli autori (v. p. es. alie pp. 43s., 101s., 104 n. 8, 117, 130s., 136) l'intervento dal titolo II fare del linguaggio di Alessandro Duranti, che è posto a sigillo del volume (pp. 149-66). Infatti si tratta di un approccio per eccellenza interdisciplinare, quello proprio dell'antropologia lingüistica, che studia il linguaggio come prassi, divertiré, potenzialità e azione sociale (v. A. Duranti, Antropología del linguaggio, Roma 2000, p. 30). L'oratoria samoana, che è stata l'oggetto di numerosi studi da parte dell'A., costituisce il primo spunto per una verifica sul dire comefare: quando in un consiglio di villaggio si passa dalla celebrazione del passato alia discussione politico-giudiziaria, si puo osservare come la transizione sia marcata dalla formula tatou talatalanoa 'parliamo(ne) insieme', la quale indica una forte corrispondenza tra parola e azione. Per i Samoani il verbofai vale sia 'dire' che 'fare', cosí viga ha il valore sia di 'significato' che di 'azione'. Parole diverse—se ne deduce—rendono possibili mondi diversi. Salle tracce di Austin il dire come fare deve essere concettualizzato nella prospettiva del contesto e degli interlocutori piuttosto che in quella delle intenzioni (il cui ruolo è stato sottolineato invece da J. R. Searle e da H. P. Grice, cf. Durand Rhetorica, Vol. XXIV, Issue 2, pp. 217-232, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . U2006 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 www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. 218 RHETORICA 2000, pp. 206-11). Il significato di un enunciato è il prodotto di un'interazione ed è proiettato verso gli effetti che esso produce. L'A. presenta poi una seconda prospettiva d'indagine sul linguaggio come costruzione del Sé nel rapporto con gli interlocutori. L'esempio proposto è relativo al discorso politico, in quanto parola che per eccellenza viene agita in pubblico. Per il candidato delle elezioni americane Walter Capps la potenza del racconto diviene azione, la narrativité è utilizzata di fronte agli elettori per creare una persona, un Sé politico nelPinterazione tra l'enunciato e gli interlocutori, anche al di là delle stesse intenzioni del locutore. È quello che avviene a Odisseo tra i Feaci—come possiamo osservare dalla nostra pro­ spettiva épica—, quando attraverso la narrazione ritorna a essere un eroe, anzi è proprio attraverso il suo stesso racconto che diviene l'eroe del nostos, prima ancora che attraverso i1 canto degli aedi. Un'ultima valutazione riguarda l'agentività (agency), di cui PA. propone una definizione: è «la propriété di quegli enti che (i) hanno un certo grado di controllo sulle loro azioni, (ii) le cui azioni hanno un effetto su altri enti (e a volte su se stessi), e (iii) le cui azioni sono oggetto di valutazione» (cf. A. Duranti, Performance and Encoding ofAgency in Historical-Natural Languages, in SALSA Proceedings, vol. 9, eds. K. Henning, N. Netherton...

This paper argues against the tendency to interpret Gorgias’ view of logos as a techne of persuasion which relies on opinion (doxa) and rests on deception either deliberately or incidentally in order to function. Rather, Gorgias appears to be making a connection between truthful speech (alethes logos) and correct speech (orthos logos). Gorgias’ insistence on correctness of speech surfaces not only in the Encomium of Helen, but also in the Funeral Oration fragment and in Agathon’s parody of Gorgianic rhetoric in Plato’s Symposium. Correct speech goes beyond the effectiveness of language and into the domain of ethical correctness and responsibility.

Abstract This article contributes to the study of figured speech by offering an analysis of pseudo-Quintilian's Declamationes Maiores 18 and 19, two controversiaefiguratae. After an introduction of the relevant rhetorical concepts, an account is given of figured speech on all levels in both declamations. The tenor of both controversiae is determined by their declamatory law, which is examined and compared with attested Greek and Roman law. Figured speech on a smaller scale is studied with regard to color, figura, and ductus, and on the level of diction, with regard to emphasis.

Book Review| February 01 2006 Review: Fronton, Correspondance, by Pascale Fleury and Ségolène Demougin Fronton, Correspondance Textes traduits et commentés par Pascale Fleury. Ségolène Demougin. Paris: Belles Lettres, 2003. coll. ««Fragments»», 2003, 426pp. Pierre-Louis Malosse Pierre-Louis Malosse Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III), Route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier Cedex 5, FRANCEpl@malosse.org Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2006) 24 (1): 110–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.110 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 Pierre-Louis Malosse; Review: Fronton, Correspondance, by Pascale Fleury and Ségolène Demougin. Rhetorica 1 February 2006; 24 (1): 110–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.110 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 Rhetoric2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract This essay argues that Whateley's rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately's works on reasoning in light of his pertinent religious notions, namely, a distinction between true and nominal Christianity; rejection of idolatry; abrogation of Mosaic Law; the relationship of the empirical facts of God's Creation and Revelation to human speculations; the priesthood of all believers; and the concomitant necessity of private judgment.

Abstract The overview of Sophistic proposed by Philostratus in the introduction to the Lives of the Sophists creates a serious problem of interpretation. The system of two Sophistics: Old Sophistic and Second Sophistic as the author of the Lives defines them, appears to involve weaknesses and contradictions which bring into question the credibility of Philostratus. One might therefore believe that the Philostratean sysem of two Sophistics, through its apparent incoherence, in no way clarifies the question of the definition of a sophist. This article proposes, in contrast, to make visible the conception of Sophistic that hides behind the opposition between Old Sophistic and Second Sophistic, by analysing the introduction and the preface of the Lives of the Sophists.

Research Article| February 01 2006 Front Matter Rhetorica (2006) 24 (1): iv. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.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 February 2006; 24 (1): iv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.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.

Book Review| February 01 2006 Review: Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo, by Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo edited by Jean Dietz Moss. William A. Wallace. Washington D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003. 438 pp., $69.95, cloth, ISBN 0-8132-1331-2 Angus Gowland Angus Gowland Department of History, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UNITED KINGDOM a.gowland@ucl.ac.uk Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2006) 24 (1): 107–110. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.107 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 Angus Gowland; Review: Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo, by Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace. Rhetorica 1 February 2006; 24 (1): 107–110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2006.24.1.107 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 Rhetoric2006 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

La présentation de la sophistique que propose Philostrate dans l’introduction des <i>Vies des sophistes</i> pose un problème d’interprétation. Le système des deux sophistiques, l’ancienne et la seconde, tel que défini par l’auteur des <i>Vies</i>, semble, en effet, comporter des failles et des contradictions qui mettent en cause la crédibilité de Philostrate. On pourrait ainsi croire que le système philostratéen des deux sophistiques, par son apparente incohérence, n’éclaire d’aucune façon la question de la définition du sophiste. Le propos de cet article consiste, au contraire, à faire voir la conception de la sophistique qui se cache derrière l’opposition entre l’ancienne sophistique et la seconde sophistique, par l’analyse de l’introduction et de la préface des <i>Vies des sophistes</i>.

This article contributes to the study of figured speech by offering an analysis of pseudo-Quintilian’s Declamationes Matares 18 and 19, two controversiae figuratae. After an introduction of the relevant rhetorical concepts, an account is given of figured speech on all levels in both declamations. The tenor of both controversiae is determined by their declamatory law, which is examined and compared with attested Greek and Roman law. Figured speech on a smaller scale is studied with regard to color, figura, and ductus, and on the level of diction, with regard to emphasis.1

This essay argues that Whateley’s rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately’s works on reasoning in light of his pertinent religious notions, namely, a distinction between true and nominal Christianity; rejection of idolatry; abrogation of Mosaic Law; the relationship of the empirical facts of God’s Creation and Revelation to human speculations; the priesthood of all believers; and the concomitant necessity of private judgment.

RHETORICA 110 The editors should be commended for bringing these immensely rich and interesting works to a wider audience. Angus Gowland University College London Fronton, Correspondance. Textes traduits et commentés par Pascale Fleury avec la collaboration de Ségolène Demougin, Paris (Belles Lettres, coll. «Fragments»), 2003, 426p. La belle et utile collection «Fragments» publie pour son troisième vo­ lume un ouvrage utile et passionnant. Il met en effet à la disposition des cher­ cheurs et de quiconque s'intéresse à la rhétorique et à l'histoire de l'Antiquité une œuvre jusque là difficile à trouver et qu'il vaut la peine de redécouvrir, ainsi qu'on le devinait déjà à lire la Rhétorique spéculative de Pascal Quignard (voir mon compte-rendu dans Rhetorica 17, pp. 227-233). Mme Fleury publie -le texte de Haines figurant sur les pages de droite et sa propre traduc­ tion sur les pages de gauche- la totalité du corpus frontonien, à l'exception, précise-t-elle, des lettres dont il ne reste que quelques mots et des passages illisibles. On trouvera donc dans ce livre les lettres adressées par Fronton à Marc Aurèle, avant et après son accession au trône, à la mère de l'empereur philosophe, au collègue de celui-ci Lucius Vérus, à Antonin le Pieux, à des amis ou connaissances -dont Hérode Atticus et Avidius Cassius-, ce qui reste des trop fameux éloges de la fumée et de la poussière et de la négligence, le début des Principia Historiée, les cinq lettres Sur l'éloquence, celle Sur les discours et quelques autres pièces de moindre importance. On demandera aussitôt: «Et les lettres de Marc Aurèle?» Justement, hormis Lad Marcum I, 6 -mais c'est qu'elle est occupée presque entièrement par la copie faite par l'empereur d'un discours de son maître-, Mme Fleury a choisi de ne pas les inclure dans son ouvrage, parce qu'elle voulait, dit-elle,«mettre en lumière la personnalité riche de Fronton, sans la poser toujours en parallèle avec l'austérité du prince.» Or, même si l'on peut le regretter en quelques occasions où il fait perdre un peu d'intelligibilité (mais le défaut est en général compensé par une note explicative), ce choix ne paraît pas injustifié, c'est même l'un des attraits de l'ouvrage: celui-ci, en ne donnant que Fronton, dévoile tout Fronton, un Fronton «en continu», oserai-je dire, et en lui-même, libéré du masque de faire-valoir dont on serait tenté de le couvrir. On se rend compte alors qu'au moins en art et en humanité, le maître a toujours été supérieur à son élève. Même si le désordre dans lequel nous est parvenu le corpus ne permet pas une chronologie précise, lire cette correspondance c'est rencontrer le fantôme d'une vie disposée au fil du temps, vie personnelle rythmée par les périodes de souffrance physique, les succès oratoires, un consulat, le Reviews 111 renoncement pour raison de santé, au proconsulat, les deuils, la venue de la vieillesse, celle-ci nous valant un «Art d'être grand-père» (Ad amicos, I, 12) plutôt réussi. Mais Fronton (ce Fronton épistolaire, du moins) vit surtout par la vie de ses élèves dont il note les progrès (Verus) et les moments symboliques d entrée dans la vie adulte; on note le changement de ton dans les missives adressées à Marc Aurèle quand celui-ci accède au trône. Il a par ailleurs une conscience aiguë de l'écoulement du temps, auquel il se réfère souvent, soit pour lutter contre lui en affirmant la permanence des sentiments et des natures, soit —et c'est plus original— pour l'accompagner délibérément et s'en réjouir. Significatix e me paraît à ce propos l'image de la semence et de la récolte, à laquelle il a recours à plusieurs reprises: il ne regrette pas, dit...

Reviews Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace, eds., Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo (Washington D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2003), 438 pp., $69.95, cloth, ISBN 0-8132-1331-2. The considerable importance of Aristotle to sixteenth-century rhetori­ cal theory has been well established in recent years, but this volume will make a significant contribution to our understanding of this expansive and occasionally complex territory. Principally, this is because it presents lengthy selections in English from a series of previously untranslated works on logic, dialectic, and rhetoric which may be taken as broadly typical products of the university environment in late sixteenth-century northern Italy. The au­ thors in question are Ludovico Carbone (1545—1597) and Antonio Riccobono (1541—1599), both of whom were deeply immersed in the Aristotelian intel­ lectual universe that predominated at Rome and Padua. For those who are unfamiliar with these figures and their environment, the editors provide a substantial introduction that surveys their biographical contexts and outlines the principles and history of the rhetorical and dialectical theory to which they subscribed, as well as brief introductions to each text. The book has two connected agendas. In the first place, it is designed to flesh out our understanding of the Renaissance uses of rhetoric, and of Aristotelian rhetoric in particular, by drawing attention to the sustained and detailed fashion in which Carbone and Riccobono analyzed and engaged with the logical basis of dialectical and rhetorical argumentation. In both cases, the penetration of rhetoric by Aristotelian logic is said to exemplify the broader engagement, on positive terms, of the era's humanist move­ ment with its traditional antagonist, namely scholastic Aristotelianism. The editors' purpose here is thus to redirect scholarly attention on Renaissance rhetoric towards the logical domain of rhetorical and dialectical invention and away from the territory of style. As they make clear, this does not consti­ tute a denial of the centrality of style to the rhetorical writings of the era. However, it inevitably creates a minor difficulty that I shall mention below. Second, as the book's title indicates, Professors Moss and Wallace have also been motivated by their conviction that attending to the logical aspect of these authors' works will facilitate a greater understanding of Galileo. As we are informed in the introduction, at some point in their careers at Rhetorica, Vol. XXIV, Issue 1, pp. 107-115, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2006 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 www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. 107 108 RHETORICA the Jesuit Collegio Romano and the University of Padua both Carbone and Riccobono moved in the same circles as Galileo. More importantly, their writings provide a clear picture of the rhetorical and dialectical environment from which many of Galileo's forms of argumentation emerged. As such, Rhetoric and Dialectic in the Time of Galileo supports and complements the interpretations of Galileo that have been offered by Wallace in Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof (1992), where he is depicted as an Aristotelian of a distinctly Thomist complexion, and by Moss in Novelties in the Heavens (1993), where he appears as a thoroughly rhetorical scientist. The translations, all undertaken by Professor Wallace, are readable and very clear. Those taken from Carbone's sizeable output derive from the tntroductionis in logicam (Venice, 1597), a compendium of Aristotelian logical theory that, as Wallace has previously demonstrated, was plagiarised from the lecture notes of the Jesuit Paolo della Valle (1561-1622); the Tabulae rhetoricae Cypriani Soarii (Venice, 1589), a tabular digest of Cypriano Soarez's De arte rhetoricae (1562); the De arte dicendi (Venice, 1589), a comprehensive account of rhetorical theory; the De oratoria et dialéctica inventione (Venice, 1589), a treatise on topical invention; and the Divinus orator vel de rhetorica divina (Venice, 1595), a novel application of classical rhetoric to the art of preaching. Riccobono, whose own work as a translator encompassed Aristotle's Rhetoric, Poetics, and Nicomachean Ethics, is represented in the volume by...

Research Article| November 01 2005 Review of Roxanne Mountford. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. xii + 194 pages. Lindal Buchanan Lindal Buchanan Department of Liberal Studies, Kettering University, 1700 West Third Avenue, Flint, MI 48504, USA ljb9601@yahoo.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2005) 23 (4): 401–403. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.401 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 Lindal Buchanan; Review of Roxanne Mountford. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. xii + 194 pages. . Rhetorica 1 November 2005; 23 (4): 401–403. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.401 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 Rhetoric Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract In a comment on the age in which he was writing, Seneca the Elder states inSuas. 2.19 that anyone can plagiarize Cicero's Verrines with impunity. Critics have taken Seneca's assertion as a sign of diminished familiarity with the In Verrem and of Cicero's diminished popularity. This article offers a different interpretation. Seneca assails the inattentiveness of contemporary audiences as they listen to declamations in the rhetorical schools, not their ignorance of theVerrines or aversion to Cicero. Seneca incorporates the In Verrem into that critique due to its emblematic length in order to satirize the audiences' carelessness. The use of theVerrines as a symbol relies for its effect on the easy identification of the text and its size, and consequently points to the fame of that title and its length, as well as of its author Cicero, in the 30s CE.

Abstract In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that a happy man is “foursquare beyond reproach” (τετράγωνοσ άνευ ψόγου or, in a common Latin translation, quadratus sine probro). To be foursquare, the happy man must bear the chances of life nobly and decorously as well as possess the qualities of the phronimos or good deliberator. That Aristotle moors felicity to prudence and decorum spurs classical, medieval, and early modern commentators, moral philosophers, and poets; by tracing the reception and use of the square man, I explore change and continuity in the relationship between prudence and decorum in some classical, late medieval, and early modern texts in order to suggest that prudent and practical persuasion emerges as a flexible responsive mode of perceiving ethical and political practice in the early modern period.

Abstract The rise of prose in Greece has been linked to broader cultural and intellectual developments under way in the classical period. Prose has also been characterized as challenging poetry's traditional status as the privileged expression of the culture. Yet throughout the classical period and beyond, poetry was still regularly invoked as the yardstick by which innovation was measured. This paper investigates how poetry figures in the earliest accounts of prose style. Focusing on Isocrates, Alcidamas, and Aristotle, it argues that although each author distinguishes between the styles of prose and poetry, none is able to sustain the distinction consistently. The criteria for what constitutes an acceptable level of poeticality in prose were unstable. The diverse conceptions of poetic style were tied to intellectual polemics and professional rivalries of the early- to mid-fourth century bce and reflect competing aims and ideals for rhetorical performance in prose.

Research Article| November 01 2005 Review of Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer, eds., Rhetorical Education in America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. 245 pp. Jane Donawerth Jane Donawerth Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA jane\_donawerth@verizon.net Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2005) 23 (4): 403–404. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.403 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 Jane Donawerth; Review of Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer, eds., Rhetorical Education in America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. 245 pp. . Rhetorica 1 November 2005; 23 (4): 403–404. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2005.23.4.403 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 Rhetoric Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Abstract “Rhetoric in Hegel” is meant as the treatment of rhetoric in theVorlesungen über die Ästhetik, one of the author's posthumous works. It is a short exposition whose content does not reoccur in Hegel's systematic works. These remarks on persuasive speech, focused on oratorical and historiographical prose, are not significant for the economy of Hegel's thought. Yet in his texts on aesthetics and in his systematic works, traditional elocutionary and argumentative rhetorical figures appear without theoretical or historical justification. Such figures raise questions about the relationships of logic, language, and politics in Hegel and draw attention to analogical semantic isotopes. This is what is meant by “Hegel's rhetoric”: a rhetoric that goes beyond the author's own definition, that deserves analysis from the perspective of Hegel's dialectics, and that reflects in important ways on contemporary topicality.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that a happy man is “foursquare beyond reproach” (τετράγωνος ἄνευ ψόγου or, in a common Latin translation, quadratus sine probro). To be foursquare, the happy man must bear the chances of life nobly and decorously as well as possess the qualities of the phronimos or good deliberator. That Aristotle moors felicity to prudence and decorum spurs classical, medieval, and early modern commentators, moral philosophers, and poets; by tracing the reception and use of the square man, I explore change and continuity in the relationship between prudence and decorum in some classical, late medieval, and early modern texts in order to suggest that prudent and practical persuasion emerges as a flexible responsive mode of perceiving ethical and political practice in the early modern period.

In a comment on the age in which he was writing, Seneca the Elder states in Suas. 2.19 that anyone can plagiarize Cicero’s Verrines with impunity. Critics have taken Seneca’s assertion as a sign of audiences’ diminished familiarity with the In Verrem and of Cicero’s diminished popularity. This article offers a different interpretation. Seneca assails the inattentiveness of contemporary audiences as they listen to declamations in the rhetorical schools, not their ignorance of the Verrines or aversion to Cicero. Seneca incorporates the In Verrem into that critique due to its emblematic length in order to satirize the audiences’ carelessness. The use of the Verrines as a symbol relies for its effect on the easy identification of the text, and consequently points to the renown of that title and its length, as well as of its author Cicero, in the 30s ce.

Reviews Roxanne Mountford. The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protes­ tant Spaces. Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003. xii + 194 pages. The Gendered Pulpit makes a significant contribution to rhetorical studies, investigating the heretofore largely overlooked issue of how gender affects rhetorical performance in sacred spaces. Roxanne Mountford employs multi­ ple lenses—including rhetorical theory, feminist historiography, church and homiletic tradition, personal experience, and ethnography—and produces a sweeping, comprehensive, and compelling analysis of her subject. The first two chapters identify masculinist biases embedded within the spatial and sermonic conventions of the Protestant church. In chapter one, Mountford introduces an original and sure to be influential conception of "rhetorical space/' which includes not only the architectural setting and physical props incorporated into an oratorical performance but also entirely non-material elements: "rhetorical spaces carry the residue of history within them . . . [and so are] a physical representation of relationships and ideas" (17). Thus, culture, tradition, and ideology inhabit rhetorical space and shape speakers' performances. Mountford illustrates this point via the pulpit, an object/space imbued with "masculine" connotations that pose challenges to women preachers. First, the pulpit is designed for male rather than female bodies. One woman minister studied by Mountford must stand on a foot­ stool in the pulpit because of her small stature; even so, she is so dwarfed by the furniture that only her neck and head are visible to the congregation. Second, the pulpit enforces a distanced, hierarchical relationship between the preacher and the audience, spatially encoding the speaker as the authority and the listeners as silent, passive recipients of "his" wisdom. Mountford argues that this type of relationship is unappealing to women preachers, who tend to prefer a "populist" stance and seek more intimate connection with the congregation. Third, because of its strong masculine associations, the pulpit automatically casts women ministers as misfits in that sacred space. To overcome the gendered obstacles posed by the pulpit, women often opt to deliver sermons in alternative spaces, for example, leaving the pulpit and speaking from the church floor or preaching outside of the church entirely. Rhetorica, Vol. XXIII, Issue 4, pp. 401-404, ISSN 0734-8584, electronic ISSN 15338541 . ©2005 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 www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. 402 RHETORICA Women also confront problematic gender assumptions within preaching textbooks. Nineteenth-century manuals, for example, encouraged ministers to develop an authoritative, heroic, manly character that would empower them to save the world one person at a time, an irrelevant and inappropriate ethos for women. Twentieth-century manuals, while not as overtly mascu­ line, failed to address gender directly and instead promoted "a generic ideol­ ogy of gender" that left traditional masculinist biases intact (63). Women's strategies for overcoming the gender biases inherent to sacred spaces and traditions are examined concretely in the book's remaining chapters. Chapters three, four, and five examine the intersections of rhetorical performance, space, and the body through the practices of three contem­ porary and very different Protestant preachers, all of whom are the first women to lead their respective churches: Patricia O'Connor, pastor of a large and affluent suburban Lutheran church; Barbara Hill (Rev. Barb), minister to a struggling church located in a strip mall and serving a low-income, African-American community; and Janet Moore, leader of an urban and deeply divided Methodist church composed of conservative, aging, white, working-class core members and liberal, young, prosperous, gay and lesbian professionals. Although possessing varied gifts and serving dissimilar con­ gregations, the three women pursue a similar goal in their ministries, which Moore describes as creating "a community of Christians dedicated to peace, social justice, and diversity" (137). This "populist" purpose, so at odds with that promoted in conventional preaching manuals and traditions, inspires the women to develop new rhetorical strategies. One of the most significant is their use of sacred space to create a sense of community. As noted, tradition places the authoritative, male preacher in the pulpit and promotes...

The rise of prose in Greece has been linked to broader cultural and intellectual developments under way in the classical period. Prose has also been characterized as challenging poetry's traditional status as the privileged expression of the culture. Yet throughout the classical period and beyond, poetry was still regularly invoked as the yardstick by which innovation was measured. This paper investigates how poetry figures in the earliest accounts of prose style. Focusing on Isocrates, Alcidamas, and Aristotle, it argues that although each author distinguishes between the styles of prose and poetry, none is able to sustain the distinction consistently. The criteria for what constitutes an acceptable level of poeticality in prose were unstable. Moreover, the diverse conceptions of poetic style were tied to intellectual polemics and professional rivalries of the early- to mid-fourth century bce and reflect competing aims and ideals for rhetorical performance in prose.

“Rhetoric in Hegel” is meant as the treatment of rhetoric in the Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, one of the author’s posthumous works. It is a short exposition whose content does not reoccur in Hegel’s systematic works. These remarks on persuasive speech, focused on oratorical and historiographical prose, are not significant for the economy of Hegel’s thought. Yet in his texts on aesthetics and in his systematic works, traditional elocutionary and argumentative rhetorical figures appear without theoretical or historical justification. Such figures raise questions about the relationships of logic, language, and politics in Hegel and draw attention to analogical semantic isotopes. This is what is meant by “Hegel’s rhetoric”: a rhetoric that goes beyond the author’s own definition, that deserves analysis from the perspective of Hegel’s dialectics, and that reflects in important ways on contemporary topicality.

Reviews 403 faith not only to sustain the congregation but also to encourage it to confront social injustice and work for racial uplift. Collectively, these women's spatial and rhetorical strategies point to an alternative method for crafting effective ethos and promoting Christian community. The epilogue addresses whether or not the "populist" preaching prac­ tices employed by O'Connor, Hill, and Moore are "feminine" ones. While acknowledging that a number of male church leaders (including Henry Ward Beecher, post-Vatican II priests, and African American preachers) have used similar methods, Mountford argues that women's abandonment of the pul­ pit, disclosure of the personal, and efforts to level hierarchy represent a significant "ritual transgression of sacred space" and tradition (156). In other words, women preachers choose alternative discursive methods and de­ livery styles in order to create ethos in a place and position traditionally antithetical to them. The Gendered Pulpit represents an important step toward understanding how gender affects discourse and rhetorical performance. Mountford con­ cludes by inviting other feminist rhetoricians into the new theoretical home afforded by a refigured fifth canon of delivery, and she encourages them to build upon her foundation and undertake further studies of women min­ isters in sacred spaces. Mountford's fine work makes a convincing case for the fifth canon as a promising site for investigating gender and rhetoric and, ultimately, for making the entire discipline inclusive and comprehensive. Lindal Buchanan Kettering University Cheryl Glenn, Margaret M. Lyday, and Wendy B. Sharer, eds., Rhetor­ ical Education in America. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. 245 pp. This volume reconsiders contemporary rhetorical education from the perspective of the history of rhetoric. The editors provide a helpful intro­ duction (Glenn) and afterword (Lyday and Sharer). Many of the essays were plenary presentations at a Penn State Rhetoric Conference organized by the editors. The volume's most successful essays link a study of how rhetoric was historically taught with how it might be taught today. In "Lest We Go the Way of the Classics: Toward a Rhetorical Future for English Departments," Thomas P. Miller reviews the history of composition teaching as a history of crises of literacy, and suggests that we now need a curriculum that will move us from the traditional interpretive stance of the critical observer to the rhetorical stance of the practical agent involved in negotiation. Shirley Wilson Logan, in "'To Get an Education and Teach My People': Rhetoric for Social Change," examines the self-help schooling of nineteenth-century African 404 RHETORICA Americans for clues to help today's disenfranchised communities. Logan calls for "consilience," that is, a linking of knowledge across disciplines, and a rhetorical education that concentrates as much on critiquing and evalu­ ating contemporary discourses as on producing writing. With meticulous scholarship, in "Parlor Rhetoric and the Performance of Gender in Postbellum America," Nan Johnson reveals the conservative réinscription of gender roles in the potentially liberating growth of manuals for parlor rhetoric after the Civil War. Gregory Clark reminds us of the range of American rhetorics in his examination of the national park as a public experience establishing a shared sense of national collectivity, a training ground for citizens who need to respond to public conflict with transcendence. Essays by William Denman and by Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie are not as strong. Denman argues that rhetoric lost its civic purpose during the nineteenth-century expansion that attempted to keep out the vulgar and the foreign by policing the borders of oral and written communication, but he ignores the growth in specialized textbooks and conduct-book rhetoric that offered rhetorical education to working class and female students. Booth and Frisbie argue that metaphor should be central to rhetorical education and analyze their qualified success in teaching metaphor to their students, but they mistakenly suggest that Aristotle did not find metaphor important to rhetoric and their claim that Renaissance rhetoric emphasized style not content has been significantly revised in recent scholarship. Other essays offer perceptive variations on the collection's theme of the history of rhetoric as a guide to future teaching. Susan Kates links James Raines's revision of the history of English to include respect for Appalachian English...