This volume gathers over forty papers by leading scholars in the field of the history of rhetoric. It illustrates the current trends in this new area of research and offers a great richness of insights. The contributors are from fourteen different countries in Europe, America and Asia ; the majority of the papers are in English and French, some others in German, Italian, and Spanish. The texts and subjects covered include the Bible, Classical Antiquity, Medieval and Modern Europe, Chinese and Korean civilization, and the contemporary world. Word, speech, language and institutions are addressed from several points of view. One major topic, among many others, is Rhetoric and Religion.
Laurent Pernot is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Strasbourg, corresponding member of the Institut de France, and Immediate Past President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the history of rhetoric, including
Rhetoric in Antiquity (The Catholic University of America Press, 2006).
Preface,
Laurent Pernot Acknowledgements
PART I - RHETORIC IN HISTORY
1. Theoretical Issues
L’histoire de la rhétorique dans l’Europe moderne,
Marc Fumaroli Rhétoriques particulaires et rhétoriques ondulatoires,
Sung-Gi Jon Aspects rhétoriques du discours historique,
Donka Alexandrova La rhétorique du
simulacrum: analogies historiques,
Andreï Rozhdestvenski La traducción como ejercicio retórico y gramatical,
Francisco Chico Rico
2. Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Power of Logos in Gorgias’
Encomium of Helen,
Nam-Duh Kim Painting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and Isocrates on Logography,
Marie-Pierre Noël Transparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics,
Harvey Yunis Le discours du tribun Licinius Macer à la plèbe (Salluste,
Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin),
Martine Chassignet Cicero and the Sophists,
Robert N. Gaines Cicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in paradigma dell’eloquenza romana,
Gabriella Moretti Deklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr.,
Gualtiero Calboli Incest in Roman Declamation,
Bé Breij L’harmonie du savoir: du modèle rhétorique au modèle musical,
Florence Malhomme
3. Modern and Contemporary Times
The History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors,
Vladimir I. Annushkin La rhétorique militaire en Russie,
Tcheslav Daletski Henri III rhéteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois,
Claude La Charité Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre,
Nanine Charbonnel The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blair’s
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres,
Arthur E. Walzer The Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto,
P. M. Mehtonen
PART II - RHETORIC AND RELIGION
1. The Problematic of Religious Discourse
The Rhetoric of Religion,
Laurent Pernot Caduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica,
Luigi Spina La parole, la foi et la beauté : la Grèce, Rome et le christianisme médiéval,
Alain Michel Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical Revival in Medieval Oxford,
Martin Camargo On Chinese Religious Rhetoric,
Rudong Chen The Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical
Topoi and the Religious Imperative,
Michael Leff
2. Speaking
of the Gods, Speaking
to the Gods
Les dieux chez les orateurs attiques,
Michael Edwards Gottesurteil – Beweismittel – Stilfigur. Funktion und Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik,
Manfred Kraus Le “discours sacré” (
hieros logos) : une forme de rhétorique religieuse dans l’Antiquité grecque,
Mina Tasseva L’influence de la légende bouddhique sur le roman de
Barlaam et Josaphat : un cas de persuasion rhétorique et religieuse,
Heon Kim
3. How to Read the Bible Rhetorically?
Rhétorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumrânienne,
Marc Philonenko Pourquoi un
Traité de rhétorique biblique?
Roland Meynet The Rhetorical
Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11, 2–16 and the Problem of the Veil,
Sławomir Torbus Art oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job,
Velichko Rumenchev Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England,
Lawrence D. Green
4. Theory and Practice of Preaching
La importancia de la
pronuntiatio en la
Retórica eclesiástica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada,
Alfonso Martín Jiménez Bunyan’s Progress and Glanvill’s Stand: Narration and Stasis in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse,
Jameela Lares “No Proper Subject:” Religion and Eloquence in Modern Britain,
Don Paul Abbott Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings
Predigtlehre,
Gregor Kalivoda
5. Religion and Political Discourse
“Theology of Liberation” and Its Tradition in Poland: the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981–1989,
Jakub Z. Lichański La question des rapports entre l’Église et l’État dans la rhétorique parlementaire en Bulgarie,
Lilia Metodieva
Notes on Contributors
Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present)
Index of Scholars and Critics
Readers interested in history of rhetoric, cultural history, literature, religious studies, and multiculturalism, as well as classical philologists, medievists, and modernists