Seneca Philosophus / / edited by Jula Wildberger, Marcia L. Colish

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788957303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2014]
• ISBN: 3-11-037355-6; 3-11-034986-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Collana: Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes (TCSV), , 1868-4785 ; ; volume 27
• Classificazione: CD 7017
• Disciplina: 188
• Soggetti: Philosophie; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: International conference proceedings.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Getting to Goodness: Reflections on Chapter 10 of Brad Inwood, Reading Seneca / Hadot, Ilsetraut -- Seneca on Prolēpsis: Greek Sources and Cicero's Influence / Orlando, Antonello -- Did Seneca Understand Medea? A Contribution to the Stoic Account of Akrasia / Müller, Jörn -- Seneca on Acting against Conscience / Colish, Marcia L. -- Seneca on the Analysis and Therapy of Occurrent Emotions / Kaufman, David H. -- Double Vision and Cross-Reading in Seneca's Epistulae Morales and Naturales Quaestiones / Williams, Gareth D. -- Freedom in Seneca: Some Reflections on the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, Public and Private Life / Pierini, Rita Degl'Innocenti -- Torture in Seneca's Philosophical Works: Between Justification and Condemnation / Courtil, Jean-Christophe -- Gender-Based Differential Morbidity and Moral Teaching in Seneca's Epistulae morales / Gazzarri, Tommaso -- My Family Tree Goes Back to the Romans: Seneca's Approach to the Family in the Epistulae Morales / Gloyn, Elizabeth -- Honeybee Reading and Self-Scripting: Epistulae Morales 84 / Graver, Margaret R. -- The Philosopher as Craftsman: A Topos between Moral Teaching and Literary Production / Cermatori, Linda -- Sententiae in Seneca / Dinter, Martin T. -- Having the Right to Philosophize: A New Reading of Seneca, De Vita Beata 1.1-6.2 / De Pietro, Matheus -- In Praise of Tubero's Pottery: A Note on Seneca, Ep. 95.72-73 and 98.13 / Berno, ; Francesca Romana -- Seneca's Letters to Lucilius: Hypocrisy as a Way of Life / Jones, Madeleine -- The Epicurus Trope and the Construction of a "Letter Writer" in Seneca's Epistulae Morales / Wildberger, Jula -- Abbreviations -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Modern Authors -- General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Addressing classicists, philosophers, students, and general readers alike, this volume emphasizes the unity of Seneca's work and his originality as a translator of Stoic ideas in the literary forms of imperial Rome. It features a vitalizing diversity of contributors from different generations, disciplines, and research cultures. Several prominent Seneca scholars publishing in other languages are for the first time made accessible to anglophone readers.; Das Buch wendet sich an Fachleute ebenso wie Studierende und das allgemeine Publikum. Es präsentiert eine ungewöhnliche Vielfalt von Beiträgern verschiedener Generationen, Fachrichtungen und nationaler Wissenskulturen, teilweise zum ersten Mal überhaupt in Englisch. Gemeinsam betonen sie die Einheit von Senecas Oeuvre und seine Originalität als Mittler stoischen Gedankenguts in den literarischen Formen des Prinzipats.

Beyond postprocess and postmodernism [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the spaciousness of rhetoric / / edited by Theresa Enos, Keith D. Miller ; Jill McCracken, assistant editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780039603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003
• ISBN: 1-135-70555-0; 1-282-32197-8; 9786612321979; 1-4106-0705-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EnosTheresa; MillerKeith D; McCrackenJill
• Disciplina: 808/.042/071
• Soggetti: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching; Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; I Historical Context-Rhetoric and Composition Studies; 1 The Spaciousness of Rhetoric; II Theory-Building and Critiquing Corderian Rhetoric; 2 Toward a Corderian Theory of Rhetoric; 3 Jim Corder's Radical, Feminist Rhetoric; 4 The Uses of Rhetoric; 5 Preaching What He Practices: Jim Corder's Irascible and Articulate Oeuvre; 6 A Writer's Haunting Presence; 7 Finding Jim's Voice: A Problem in Ethos and Personal Identity; III Parallels, Extensions, and Applications; 8 A Call for Comity; 9 Toward an Adequate Pedagogy for Rhetorical Argumentation: A Case Study in Invention10 Rhetoric and Conflict Resolution; 11 Rhetoricians at War and Peace; IV Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Institutional Issues; 12 Bringing Over Yonder Over Here: A Personal Look at Expressivist Rhetoric As Ideological Action; 13 A More Spacious Model of Writing and Literacy; 14 Weaving a Way Home: Composing a Personal Geography; 15 Who Owns Creative Nonfiction?; Author Index; Subject Index; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: In this collection of original essays, editors Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller join their contributors--a veritable ""who's who"" in composition scholarship--in seeking to illuminate and complicate many of the tensions present in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributions included here emphasize key issues in past and present work, setting the stage for future thought and study. The book also honors the late Jim Corder, a major figure in the development of the rhetoric and composition discipline. In the spirit of Corder's unfinished work, the contributors to this volume absorb,