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1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction, Ancient concept of kairos / Phillip Sipiora -- New chapter in the history of rhetoric and Sophistry / Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora -- Time and qualitative time / John E. Smith -- Kairos in classical and modern rhetorical theory / James L. Kinneavy -- Inventional constraints on the technographers of ancient Athens : a study of kairos / Richard Leo Enos -- Kairos in Gorgias' rhetorical compositions / John Poulakos -- Hippocrates, kairos, and writing in the sciences / Catherine R. Eskin -- Kairos : the rhetoric of time and timing in the New Testament / Phillip Sipiora -- Kairos and decorum : Crassus Orator's speech de lege Servilia / Joseph J. Hughes -- Ciceronian decorum and the temporalities of Renaissance rhetoric / James S. Baumlin -- Chronos, kairos, aion : failures of decorum, right-timing, and revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet / James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American kairos / Roger Thompson -- In praise of kairos in the arts : critical time, East and West / Gregory Mason -- Changing times in composition classes : kairos, resonance, and the Pythagorean connection / Carolyn Eriksen Hill -- On doing the right thing at the right time : toward an ethics of kairos / Amélie Frost Benedikt -- Bibliography on kairos and related concepts / Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin. |
Summary |
This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric. Augusto Rostagni, James L. Kinneavy, Richard Leo Enos, John Poulakos, a. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Rhetoric.
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Rhetoric. |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Kairos (The Greek word)
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Kairos (The Greek word) |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Sipiora, Phillip.
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Baumlin, James S.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Rhetoric and kairos. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2002 0791452336 (DLC) 2001049284 (OCoLC)47764375 |
ISBN |
0585442525 (electronic book) |
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9780585442525 (electronic book) |
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0791452336 (alkaline paper) |
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9780791452332 (alkaline paper) |
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0791452344 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791452349 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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