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Original Articles

Contested histories of rhetoric: The politics of preservation, progress, and change

Pages 403-428 | Published online: 06 Jun 2009

Notes

  • Bengtson , McGann. 1969 . Einführung in die Alte Geschichte. , the sixth edition , Munich : C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung . book is a translation of
  • Bevilacqua . “Lord Kames’ Theory,” . 324 327
  • Caplan . “A Late Medieval Tractate,” . 61 – 90 .
  • Caplan . “Four Senses,” . 282 – 90 .
  • Murphy . Rhetoric in the Middle Ages ix
  • Ong . Ramus 8 21 63 – 4 . 176 – 8 . 297
  • Jarratt . “Toward a Sophistic Historiography,” . 14 – 7 .
  • Zappen . “Hobbes's rhetorical method defies strict classification as Aristotelian, Ramist, anti‐Ramist, or counterreformist” . 90 concludes that
  • Golden , Berquist and Coleman . 1976, 1978, 1989 . The Rhetoric of Western Thought, , first edition, second edition, fourth edition

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