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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452270803321

Autore

Walker Jeffrey <1949->

Titolo

The genuine teachers of this art [[electronic resource] ] : rhetorical education in antiquity / / Jeffrey Walker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Columbia], : University of South Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-87234-X

1-61117-182-2

Edizione

[Cloth ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Disciplina

808.00938

Soggetti

Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Rhetoric, Ancient - Study and teaching

Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Study and teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy -- Cicero's Antonius -- On the technē of Isocrates (I) -- On the technē of Isocrates (II) -- In the garden of talking birds: declamation and civic theater -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship -- Epilogue: William Dean Howells and the Sophist's shoes.