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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2023

Robert C. Bartlett
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
Nasser Behnegar
Affiliation:
Boston College, Massachusetts
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This volume is intended to introduce students and general readers to the theory and practice of rhetoric. Part I offers classic statements of rhetoric in Plato (in the Gorgias), Aristotle (in the Art of Rhetoric) and other seminal thinkers—both what rhetoric is and what its potential virtues and vices, strengths and weaknesses, are. The rest of Part I is devoted to explaining Aristotle’s classic and influential account of rhetoric: its three main kinds (deliberative, epideictic, and judicial) and the three “modes of persuasion” or proofs characteristic of it (those that appeal to the speaker’s ethos or character, to the pathos or emotion of the audience, and to logos or the logic of the speech itself). Part II offers a broad range of exemplary speeches, ancient and modern, grouped thematically. There is a preference throughout for political speeches, as distinguished from essays, letters, and other forms of communication; and our collection boasts a diversity of speakers.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Robert C. Bartlett, Boston College, Massachusetts, Nasser Behnegar, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
  • Online publication: 02 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367400.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Robert C. Bartlett, Boston College, Massachusetts, Nasser Behnegar, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
  • Online publication: 02 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367400.001
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  • Introduction
  • Edited by Robert C. Bartlett, Boston College, Massachusetts, Nasser Behnegar, Boston College, Massachusetts
  • Book: Political Rhetoric in Theory and Practice
  • Online publication: 02 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367400.001
Available formats
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