Elements of rhetoric : comprising an analysis of the laws of moral evidence and of persuasion, with rules for argumentative composition and elocution
Direct, comprehensive, well organized, simple in statement, Elements of Rhetoric is in all respects well fitted to fulfill its assigned role as a textbook. The remarks on practical problems and the examples and analogies confirm contemporary reports that Whately was himself a talented and stimulating teacher. The modern field of speech was born near the beginning of the twentieth century, some seventy years after Whately wrote. But influential leaders in the new field endorsed Whately's judgments, and courses and textbooks in public address have remained st
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Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Ill., ©2010
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Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Foreword; Contents; Editor's Introduction; Preface; Introduction; Part I
Of the Invention, Arrangement, and Introduction of Propositions and Arguments; Chap. I
Of Propositions; Chap. II
Of Arguments; Chap. III
Of the various use and order of the several kinds of Propositions and of Arguments in different cases; Chap. IV
Of Introductions and Conclusions; Part II
Of Persuasion; Chap. I
Introductory; Chap. II
Of the conduct of any address to the Feelings, generally. Chap. III
Of the favourable or unfavourable disposition of the hearers towards the Soeaker or his opponentPart III
Of Style; Chap. I
Of Perspicuity; Chap. II
Of Energy; Chap. III
Of Elegance; Part IV
Of Elocution; Chap. I
General Considerations relative to Elocution; Chap. II
Artificial and Natural Methods compared; Chap. III
Considerations arising from the Differences between Reading and Speaking; Chap. IV
Practical Deductions from the foregoing views; Appendix; Index; Also in the Landmarks in Rheoric and Public Address series; Back Cover
Originally published: 1853. This edition originally published in 1963
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