Rhetoric and kairos : essays in history, theory, and praxis / Phillip Sipiora and James S. Baumlin, editors.

Other author Sipiora, Phillip.
Other author Baumlin, James S.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Descriptionxiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Rhetoric.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Kairos (The Greek word)

Contents Introduction, Ancient concept of kairos / Phillip Sipiora -- New chapter in the history of rhetoric and Sophistry / Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora -- Time and qualitative time / John E. Smith -- Kairos in classical and modern rhetorical theory / James L. Kinneavy -- Inventional constraints on the technographers of ancient Athens : a study of kairos / Richard Leo Enos -- Kairos in Gorgias' rhetorical compositions / John Poulakos -- Hippocrates, kairos, and writing in the sciences / Catherine R. Eskin -- Kairos : the rhetoric of time and timing in the New Testament / Phillip Sipiora -- Kairos and decorum : Crassus Orator's speech de lege Servilia / Joseph J. Hughes -- Ciceronian decorum and the temporalities of Renaissance rhetoric / James S. Baumlin -- Chronos, kairos, aion : failures of decorum, right-timing, and revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet / James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American kairos / Roger Thompson -- In praise of kairos in the arts : critical time, East and West / Gregory Mason -- Changing times in composition classes : kairos, resonance, and the Pythagorean connection / Carolyn Eriksen Hill -- On doing the right thing at the right time : toward an ethics of kairos / Amélie Frost Benedikt -- Bibliography on kairos and related concepts / Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 237-245) and index.
LCCN 2001049284
ISBN0791452336 (alk. paper)
ISBN0791452344 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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