The contemporary reception of classical rhetoric: appropriations of ancient discourse

Abstract

Contents: Preface. Part I: A Critique of Contemporary Appropriations of Classical Rhetoric. The Heritage School of Classical Rhetoric in the United States. Presentations of Heritage School Classical Rhetoric: Logic and False Oppositions of Ancient and Modern Language Issues. Part II: Rehistoricizing Classical Rhetoric. Interpretive Options in the Historicizing of Classical Rhetoric. Appropriating Plato's Rhetoric and Writing into Contemporary Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Appropriating Competing Systems of Classical Greek Rhetoric: Considering Isocrates and Gorgias with Plato in the New Rhetoric of the Fourth Century B.C. Classical Rhetoric and Contemporary Rhetoric and Composition Studies: Electrifying Classical Rhetoric.