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Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

Subject Areas: Linguistics and Language
Publisher: University of California Press - University of California Press
ISSN: 0734-8584
SJR: 16

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Anassagora retore

Gemin, Marco

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.219

Anaxagoras is a missing author in the history of Greek rhetoric. His style has often seemed archaic and naive, unworthy of in-depth study. Nevertheless, the main so-called Gorgian figures are present in his fragments. They are not used with simply ornamental purposes but with a strongly...
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Psychopompos: Thoth, Plato's Phaedrus, and the Context of Egyptian Mythic Rhetoric

Ramsey, Shawn

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.233

In Phaedrus, Plato invokes a mythic exemplum concerning the Egyptian deity Thoth. Though often interpreted as an overt critique of writing, this argument posits Thoth is offered analogically to contrast Plato's rhetorical epistemology with that of the ancient Egyptians. To do so, this argument...
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“A Confidence as Bold”: The Rhetorical Construction of Evangelical Authority in Hugh Latimer's “Sermon of the Plough”

Irvin, Matthew W.

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.256

Hugh Latimer's 1548 “Sermon of the Plough” is well-known as an example of early English evangelical rhetoric. However, the sermon has often been considered as an effect of, rather than a participant in, evangelical theology. This article reads Latimer's rhetoric, especially his creation of a...
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Whose English? A Guide to Rhetorical Style in the Nineteenth Century

Katzir, Brandon

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.297

This article explores the history of the English-language style guide, a genre of writing with beginnings in the eighteenth century. Gaining popularity in the Victorian period, the style guide began to solidify as a genre dedicated to preserving certain linguistic usages. I argue that, from the...
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Review: Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Approaches to Text, Tradition and Social Construction in Biblical and Second Temple Literature, by Carol A. Newsom

Charney, Davida

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.322
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Review: Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge by Susan Wells; Reading by Design: The Visual Interfaces of the English Renaissance Book by Pauline Reid; The Players' Advice to Hamlet: The Rhetorical Acting Method from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment by David Wiles

Barr, Timothy

2022 Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric

doi:10.1525/rh.2022.40.3.325

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