Walter Jost teaches in the English Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Wendy Olmsted teaches in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago.

"Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted have produced a remarkable volume that serves equally well as an introduction to rhetorical studies and as a reference work for specialists. The range of the essays and the credentials of the contributors mark the book as important, but its most notable feature is the conception and development of a general work on rhetoric that remains connected with specific texts, historical contexts, and material circumstances ... The result is a volume impressive in its parts and invaluable in its totality – a must read." Michael C. Leff, Northwestern University

• Notes on Contributors xIntroduction xvAcknowledgments xviiPART I Rhetoric in Its Place and Time 11 Introduction: Contingency and Probability 5Dilip Parmeshwar Gaonkar2 The Politics of Deliberation: Oratory and Democracy in Classical Athens 22David Cohen3 Text and Context in the Roman Forum: The Case of Cicero’s First Catilinarian 38B. A. Krostenko4 A Conversational Opener: The Rhetorical Paradigm of John 1:1 58Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle5 Continental Poetics 80Arthur F. Kinney6 ‘‘His tail at commandment’’: George Puttenham and the Carnivalization of Rhetoric 96Wayne A. Rebhorn7 Rhetorical Selfhood in Erasmus and Milton 112Thomas O. Sloane8 Rhetoric, Rights, and Contract Theory in the Early Modern Period 128Victoria Kahn9 The Philosophy of Rhetoric in Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric 141Joel C. Weinsheimer10 The Rhetorical Legacy of Kenneth Burke 152Herbert W. SimonsPART II Rhetoric’s Favorite Places 16911 Topics (and deliberation): Exemplifying Deliberation: Cicero’s De Officiis and Machiavelli’s Prince 173Wendy Olmsted12 Deliberation (and topics): Cultivating Deliberating: Mindfully Resourceful Innovation In and Through the Federalist Papers 190David J. Smigelskis13 Ethos: Socrates Talks Himself Out of His Body: Ethical Argument and Personal Immortality in the Phaedo 206Eugene Garver14 Pathos: Rhetoric and Emotion 221James L. Kasteley15 Analogies, Parables, Paradoxes: Get On Down: Plato’s Rhetoric of Education in the Republic 238Kathy Eden16 Style: The Rhetoric of the Aphorism 248Gary Saul Morson17 Argumentation: What Jokes Can Tell Us About Arguments 266Thomas Conley18 Commonplaces: Sensus Communis 278John D. Schaeffer19 Judgment: Arts of Persuasion and Judgment: Rhetoric and Aesthetics 294Anthony J. CascardiPART III Rhetoric and Its Critics 30920 Epiphany and Epideictic: The Low Modernist Lyric in Robert Frost 311Walter Jost21 Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction – in General 325Peter J. Rabinowitz22 Narrative as Rhetoric and Edith Wharton’s Roman Fever: Progression, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise 340James Phelan23 ‘‘Mind the Gap’’: W. G. Sebald and the Rhetoric of Unrest 355Adam Zachary Newton24 Rhetoric in the Wilderness: The Deep Rhetoric of the Late Twentieth Century 372James CrosswhitePART IV All in Good Time – and Timing 38925 Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory 393Don Bialostosky26 Reviving the Rhetorical Heritage of Protestant Theology 409Stephen H. Webb27 Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir 425Nancy S. Struever28 Rhetoric in the Law 442Robert P. Burns29 Rhetorical Hermeneutics Still Again: or, On the Track of Phronèsis 457Steven Mailloux30 Rhetoric and Poetics: How to Use the Inevitable Return of the Repressed 473Charles Altieri31 My Life with Rhetoric: From Neglect to Obsession 494Wayne C. BoothIndex 505