Rhetoric and kairos: essays in history, theory, and praxis

Rhetoric and Kairos......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Foreword by Carolyn R. Miller......Page 12
Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos by Phillip Sipiora......Page 16
A New Chapter in the History 0f Rhetoric and Sophistry by Augusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora......Page 38
Time and Qualitative Time by John E. Smith......Page 61
Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory by James L. Kinneavy......Page 73
Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos by Richard Leo Enos......Page 92
Kairos in Gorgias’ Rhetorical Compositions by John Poulakos......Page 104
Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences by Catherine R. Eskin......Page 112
Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament by Phillip Sipiora......Page 129
Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator’s Speech de lege Servilia by Joseph J. Hughes......Page 143
Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric by James S. Baumlin......Page 153
Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare’s Hamlet by James S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin......Page 180
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos by Roger Thompson......Page 202
In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West by Gregory Mason......Page 214
Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection by Carolyn Eriksen Hill......Page 226
On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos by Amélie Frost Benedikt......Page 241
A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts by Tanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin......Page 252
Contributors......Page 262
A......Page 264
C......Page 265
F......Page 266
H......Page 267
K......Page 268
N......Page 269
P......Page 270
S......Page 271
W......Page 272
Z......Page 273