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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812241503321

Titolo

Rhetoric and kairos [[electronic resource] ] : essays in history, theory, and praxis / / Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8938-8

0-585-44252-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 258 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

SipioraPhillip

BaumlinJames S

Disciplina

808/.00938

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Rhetoric, Ancient

Kairos (The Greek word)

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 (p. 237-245) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Rhetoric and Kairos -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Carolyn R. Miller -- Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos by Phillip Sipiora -- A New Chapter in the History 0f Rhetoric and Sophistry by Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora -- Time and Qualitative Time by John E. Smith -- Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory by James L. Kinneavy -- Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos by Richard Leo Enos -- Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical Compositions by John Poulakos -- Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences by Catherine R. Eskin -- Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament by Phillip Sipiora -- Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege Servilia by Joseph J. Hughes -- Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric by James S. Baumlin -- Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet by James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos by Roger Thompson -- In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West by Gregory Mason -- Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection by



Carolyn Eriksen Hill -- On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos by Amélie Frost Benedikt -- A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts by Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role "timeliness" or "right-timing" plays in human deliberation, speech, and action.