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Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809325942ISBN 13: 9780809325948
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A merely good, working copy of the first hard cover edition, first printing (full number line). Underlining with some marginal comments in ink throughout the text (no highlighting). The jacket and binding are bright and fresh in appearance.
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0809325942ISBN 13: 9780809325948
Seller: Scrinium Classical Antiquity, Aalten, Netherlands
Book
Condition: Antiquarian. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2006. IX,249p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens'is an attempt to re-evaluate key aspects of public oratory in the best-documented polis of the ancient Greek world. 'Action' is here the key word: Fredal wants to shift the emphasis from what he call 'enthymematic rhetoric', i.e. 'that intricate species of discourse that attended to the course of thoughts in the listener' (p.33), to rhetoricas performance, icluding all the symbolic, bodily and topographical features that endowed rhetoric with meaning. (.) In this theoretically informed study, F. offers us refreshing insights into the nature of Athenian rhetoric. He is at his best when he discusses features of oratorical performance that students of Athenian history and literature rarelky think about: the importance of spatial and architectural features in the performance of rhetoric, for ecxample, and the bodily hallmarks of the successful 'rhêtor', often related to social class and acquired through a proces of enculturation. This is a book that will be profitably read not only by scholars of rhetoric but also by specialists in Athenian literature, history and law.' (ZINON PAPAKONSTANTINOU, in The Classical Review, 2007, pp.271-73). Antiquarian.