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Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion
Jean Nienkamp
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Description for Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion
Hardcover. This is a study of rhetoric interior to the self, it presents insights into the elements of rhetorical tradition, into the social functions of the rhetoric, and into the epistemological, ethical, and psychological processes that are involved in rhetorical practice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Since its early history in Greek culture, traditional rhetorical study has focused primarily on persuasive language used in the public sphere. There has been little study, however, of what Jean Nienkamp calls internal rhetoric, which ""occurs between one aspect of the self and another"" inside one's mind. Nienkamp opens the study of internal rhetoric by discussing how the concept developed alongside traditional classical and modern rhetorical theory. Nienkamp shows how we talk to ourselves, or more specifically, how we talk ourselves into things: justifications, actions, opinions, theories. She explains that just because we see ourselves as divided, as torn in ... Read more
Since its early history in Greek culture, traditional rhetorical study has focused primarily on persuasive language used in the public sphere. There has been little study, however, of what Jean Nienkamp calls internal rhetoric, which ""occurs between one aspect of the self and another"" inside one's mind. Nienkamp opens the study of internal rhetoric by discussing how the concept developed alongside traditional classical and modern rhetorical theory. Nienkamp shows how we talk to ourselves, or more specifically, how we talk ourselves into things: justifications, actions, opinions, theories. She explains that just because we see ourselves as divided, as torn in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809324064
SKU
V9780809324064
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About Jean Nienkamp
Jean Nienkamp edited Plato on Rhetoric and Language and coedited the novel Female Quixotism by Tabitha Gilman Tenney.
Reviews for Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion
[Internal Rhetorics] presents new insights into the elements of rhetorical tradition, into the social functions of rhetoric, and into the epistemological, ethical, and psychological processes that are involved in rhetorical practice. The 'newness' of the project is in this re-visioning of the tradition. Nienkamp offers a genuinely important way of reading that tradition that has not been apparent to most ... Read more