Walker, Jeffrey, 1949-

The genuine teachers of this art : rhetorical education in antiquity / Jeffrey Walker. - Cloth edition. - [Columbia] : University of South Carolina Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (356 pages). - Studies in rhetoric/communication .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue: rhetoric and/as rhetorical pedagogy -- Cicero's Antonius -- On the technē of Isocrates (I) -- On the technē of Isocrates (II) -- In the garden of talking birds: declamation and civic theater -- Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the notion of rhetorical scholarship -- Epilogue: William Dean Howells and the Sophist's shoes.



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Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
Rhetoric, Ancient--Study and teaching.
Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching.


Electronic Books.

P53 / .G468 2011