The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in

The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in Antiquity (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)

Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technÃª, or â€œhandbook,â€ traditionâ€•which it controversially suggests began with Isocratesâ€•as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model for contemporary rhetoric. From this innovative perspective, Jeffrey Walker offers reconsiderations of rhetorical theories and schoolroom practices from early to late antiquity as the true aim of the philosophical rhetoric of Isocrates and as the distinctive expression of what Cicero called â€œthe genuine teachers of this art.â€
Walker makes a case for considering rhetoric not as an Aristotelian critical-theoretical discipline, but as an Isocratean pedagogical discipline in which the art of rhetoric is neither an art of producing critical theory nor even an art of producing speeches and texts, but an art of producing speakers and writers. He grounds his study in pedagogical theses mined from revealing against-the-grain readings of Cicero, Isocrates, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Walker also locates supporting examples from a host of other sources, including Aelius Theon, Aphthonius, the Rhetoric to Alexander, the Rhetoric to Herennius, Quintilian, Hermogenes, Hermagoras, Lucian, Libanius, Apsines, the Anonymous Seguerianus, and fragments of ancient student writing preserved in papyri. Walkerâ€™s epilogue considers the relevance of the ancient technÃª tradition for the modern discipline of rhetoric, arguing that rhetoric is defined foremost by its pedagogical enterprise.
Country USA
Manufacturer Univ of South Carolina Pr
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9781611170160
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Univ of South Carolina Pr
Binding	Hardcover
EANs	9781611170160
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in Antiquity (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication)