Rhetoric and Ethics
Author: | Aarons, Victoria Salomon, Willis |
Year: | 1991 |
Pages: | 220 |
ISBN: | 0-88946-212-7 978-0-88946-212-0 |
Price: | $179.95 |
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Addresses the classical connection between rhetoric and ethics, its fragmentation during the 17th century, and the reunification of rhetoric and ethics in the 20th century. Includes such essays as "Platonic Rhetoric" by Charles Salman, "Persons, Personae, and Ghost Writing: Ethics and Fictive Voice" by George E. Yoos, "Stance Perception in Sixteenth-Century Ethical Discourse" by Lawrence D. Green, and "Differences That Unite Us: John Kennedy's Speech to the Houston Ministerial Association" by Frederick J. Antczak.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Willis A. Salomon
The Dialectical Convergence of Rhetoric and Ethics: The Imperative of Public Conversation
Lawrence D. Kimmel
Platonic Rhetoric
Charles Salman
Stance Perception in Sixteenth-Century Ethical Discourse
Lawrence D. Green
Prescriptive Rhetorics, The Rejection of Rhetoric and the Ethical Response of Rhetorical Theory
John T. Gage
The Ethics of Argument: Kenneth Burke's Influence on the Teaching of Writing
Ann Dobyns
Differences that United Us: John Kennedy's Speech to the Houston Ministerial Association of the Possibilities of Ethical Criticism
Frederick J. Antczak
Persons, Personae, and Ghost Writing: Ethics and Fictive Voice
George E. Yoos
Narrative Voices, Ethical Perspectives
Victoria Aarons
Persuasions of the Self in Modern American Poetry
Leonard Nathan
Contributors