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PREFACE
1 TRADITIONAL DEFINTIONS OF RHETORIC
1.1 Rhetoric as Art of Oratory
1.2 Rhetoric as the Art of Writing
1.3 Rhetoric as the Art of Style
2 THE CLASSICAL TRADITION OF RHETORIC
2.1 Social Need for Classical Rhetoric
2.2 First Rhetoricians and the First Rhetoric-School
2.3 The Influence of Classical Rhetoric
2.4 Outline of Classical Rhetoric
2.5 The Classical Tradition of Rhetoric
3 TRADITIONAL RHETORIC IN ENGLAND
3.1 Sixteenth-Century English Rhetoric
3.2 Seventeenth-Century English Rhetoric
3.3 Eighteenth-Century English Rhetoric
4 TRADITIONAL RHEORIC IN AMERICA
4.1 New Beginnings
4.2 Speech Communication Studies
4.3 Composition-Rhetoric
5 THEORY CONSTRUCTION OF CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC
5.1 Rhetoric or Rhetorics
5.2 Substitute or Supplement
5.3 Theory of Rhetoric or Philosophy of Rhetoric
6 PROBES OF CONTEMPORARY RHETORICAL THEORY
6.1 Rhetoric:Functions and Scope
6.2 Rhetorcal Context
6.3 Nature and Significance of Metaphor in Rhetorical Process
6.4 Toward an Axiology of Rhetoric
7 NEW RHETORIC
8 RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION STUDIES
9 RHETORIC AND FIGURES OF SPEECH
10 CONTEMPORARY RHETORIC:INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
11 RHETORICAL CRITICISM
WORKS CITED AND CONSULTED