ENGL309C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: New Rhetorics, Epideictic, Quintilian
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Links to the classical tradition: non-aristotelian discourse, aristotelian discourse. New rhetoric: mathematical (abstract) and juridical (practical, audience, techniques of argumentation. Weaver, burke, toulmin, and perelman (exam aristotle in relation to new rhetoric) Simultaneously look back to classical rhetoricians and forward to the problems and possibilities posed by new rhetoric. The stylistic rhetoric (ornamental art of expression) perelman studied as a student, especially through the lens of ramus, which he rejects (felt these theories were inadequate): Cicero: to unite eloquence and philosophy, to instruct, to move, and to please. Quintilian and declamation: the art of speaking well (declamation, tropes or ornaments of writing and speaking the flowers of rhetoric and. Language as an art based on a body of organized knowledge . Elocutio (style; choice of terms and phrases) perelman believed this was what was only being concentrated on by cicero & quintilian.
