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Synopsis
Examines the principles of historiography that are generally applied to writing what we call "The History of Rhetoric." Focusing on the Sophists Gorgias and Isocrates, and on how each has been received and refigured by historians, the book moves beyond these approaches to postmodernist ones.
Vitanza introduces his book with the questions: “What Do I Want, Wanting to Write This (‘our’) Book? What Do I Want, Wanting You to Read This (‘our’) Book?” Thereafter, in a series of chapters and excursions and as schizographer of rhetorics (erotics), he interrogates three recent, influential historians of Sophists (Edward Schiappa, John Poulakos, and Susan Jarratt), and how these historians as well as others represent Sophists and, in particular, Isocrates and Gorgias under the sign of the negative. Vitanza concludes―rather rebegins in a sophistic-performative excursus―with a prelude to future (anterior) histories of rhetorics. Vitanza asks: “What will have been anti-Oedipalizedized (de-negated) hysteries of rhetorics? What will have they looked like, sounded, read like? Or to ask affirmatively, what, then, will have libidinalized-hysteries of rhetorics looked, sounded, read like?”
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'This is a remarkably comprehensive and original treatment of crucial concerns for historians and theorists of rhetoric.
About the Author
Victor J. Vitanza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the editor of two books, PRE/TEXT: The First Decade and Writing Histories of Rhetoric.
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- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0791431231
- ISBN 13 9780791431238
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages428
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