The Practice of Rhetoric: Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practice

Rhetoric is the art of emphasis, in the ancient sense of bringing to light or obscuring in shadow, and it is both a practice and a theory about that practice. In recent decades, scholars of rhetoric have turned to approaches that braid together poetics, performance, and philosophy into a “practical art.” The Practice of Rhetoric: Poetics, Performance, Philosophy presents just such an account of rheto...