Description
By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, this textbook gives students a conceptual framework for evaluating and practicing persuasive writing and speaking in a wide range of settings and in both written and visual media.
The book's expansive historical purview illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds, drawing on the ideas of some of history's greatest thinkers and theorists. The seventh edition includes greater attention to non-Western rhetorics, feminist rhetorics, the rhetoric of science, and European and American critical theory. Known for its clear writing style and contemporary examples throughout, The History and Theory of Rhetoric emphasizes the relevance of rhetoric to today's students.
This revised edition serves as a core textbook for rhetoric courses in both English and communication programs covering both the historical tradition of rhetoric and contemporary rhetoric studies.
This edition includes an instructor's manual and practice quizzes for students at www.routledge.com/cw/herrick
Author: James A. Herrick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 12/30/2020
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780367427344
ISBN10: 0367427346
BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics | General
About the Author
James A. Herrick is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Hope College, USA. His publications include Argumentation: Understanding and Shaping Arguments, 6th edition (2017) and Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future (2017).
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