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Rhetoric and kairos : essays in history, theory, and praxis

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
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State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, ©2002
1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations
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Acknowledgmentsix
Forewordxi
Carolyn R. Miller
Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos1(22)
Phillip Sipiora
A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and Sophistry
23(23)
Augusto Rostagni
Phillip Sipiora
Time and Qualitative Time
46(12)
John E. Smith
Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory
58(19)
James L. Kinneavy
Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos
77(12)
Richard Leo Enos
Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical Compositions
89(8)
John Poulakos
Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences
97(17)
Catherine R. Eskin
Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament
114(14)
Phillip Sipiora
Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege Servilia
128(10)
Joseph J. Hughes
Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric
138(27)
James S. Baumlin
Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet
165(22)
James S. Baumlin
Tita French Baumlin
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos
187(12)
Roger Thompson
In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West
199(12)
Gregory Mason
Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection
211(15)
Carolyn Eriksen Hill
On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos
226(11)
Amelie Frost Benedikt
A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts
237(10)
Tanya Zhelezcheva
James S. Baumlin
Contributors247(2)
Index249
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