Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

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SUNY Press, 2002 M01 17 - 258 páginas
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, and John E. Smith are among the international list of scholars who explore the Homeric and literary origins of kairos, the technologies of time-keeping in antiquity, the role of right-timing in Hippocratic medicine, the improvisations of Gorgias, as well as the uses of kairos in Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the New Testament. Broad in its scope, the book also examines the distinctive philosophies of time reflected in Renaissance Humanism, Nineteenth-Century American Transcendentalism, Oriental art and ritual, and the application of kairos to contemporary philosophy, ethics, literary criticism, rhetorical theory, and composition pedagogy.

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The Ancient Concept of Kairos
1
A New Chapter in the H1story of Rhetoric and Sophistry
23
Time and Qual1tat1ve Time
46
Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory
58
A Study of Kairos
77
Kairos in Gorgias Rhetor1cal Compositions
89
Hippocrates Kairos and Writing in the Sciences
97
The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament
114
Failures of Decorum RightTiming and Revenge in Shakespeares Hamlet
165
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos
187
Critical Time East and West
199
Kairos Resonance and the Pythagorean Connection
211
Toward an Ethics of Kairos
226
A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts
237
Contributors
247
Index
249

Crassus Orators Speech de lege Servilia
128
Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric
138

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Phillip Sipiora is Professor and Associate Chair of English at The University of South Florida. He is the coeditor, with Fredric G. Gale and James L. Kinneavy, of Ethical Issues in College Writing.

James S. Baumlin is Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse and coeditor, with Tita F. Baumlin, of Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory.

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