Jacob-”What if Aristotle Took Sophists Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” »

By Katt on Jul 19, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading, Rhetoric | 0 Comments

Jacob, Bernard E. “What if Aristotle Took Sophists Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Review. 14.2(Spring 1996): 237-52.
Bernard Jacob’s “What if Aristotle Took Sophist Seriously? New Readings in Aristotle’s Rhetoric” (1996) argues that the passages scholars often interpret as Aristotle’s scathing criticism of sophists in the first two chapters of the Rhetoric are, in [...]

Quandahl, Ellen–Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting Invention.” »

By Katt on Jul 18, 2007 in First Year Composition (FYC), Recommended Reading, Rhetoric | 0 Comments

Quandahl, Ellen. “Aristotle’s Rheotic: Reinterpreting Invention.” Rhetoric Review. 4.2(Jan., 1986): 128-137. (Available through JSTOR)
In “Aristotle’s Rhetoric: Reinterpreting Invention,” asserts that the use of the topics in the Rhetoric were not intended as methods of invention, but rather as useful theories to aid in interpretation. Reading the Rhetoric with excerpts from Aristotle’s Topics, along with the [...]