Don Paul Abbott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Paul Abbott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Abbott |
| SIGNATURE | ABBOTT D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A New Genus: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminization of Elocution
Mary Wollstonecraft is significant figure in the development of women's literature yet her importance in the evolution of rhetoric has yet to be fully recognized. Relatively little recognition has been accorded her work The Female Reader. Yet that text is the first elocutionary text written by a women, specifically for women, and which includes numerous selections from writing by woman authors. As such, Wollstonecraft's work initiated a place for…
Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance . Debora K. Shuger
The Ancient Word: Rhetoric in Aztec Culture
ernadino de Sahagun, the foremost chronicler of sixteenth-century Mexico, observed that all nations looked to the learned and powerful to persuade, and to men eminent in moral virtues. There are examples of such men the Greeks and Romans, Spanish, French and Italians. Also among the Aztecs learned, virtuous, and enterprising were held in high esteem, and they elected high priests, lords, chiefs, and captains from among them, however low their des…
Antonio de capmany: Human nature and the nature of rhetoric
Antonio de Capmany's Filosofia de la eloquencia (1777) is the Spanish rhetorical treatise in which the epistemology of the Enlightenment is most clearly revealed. In this work Capmany posits an explicit theory of human nature which in turn dictates the nature of his theory of rhetoric. As a result of his philosophical analysis Capmany must assign to rhetoric a function which is essentially expressive
Retórica e eloguencia: The evolution of rhetorical thought in eighteenth century Spain
The Enlightenment inspired among the Spanish fundamental revisions in rhetorical theory. Restatements of classical dogma, prevalent in the early eighteenth century, gradually diminished and were replaced by a stylistic, belletristic, and ultimately modern conception of rhetoric
Books: Lost, stolen or strayed
THE RHETORIC OF ARISTOTLE. Translation by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O.M., Litt. D. Edited with an Introduction by John Edwin Sandys, L.H.D. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909; pp. xxviii‐207. INSTITUTIONES ORATORIAE. By Sulpitius Victor, in Rhetores Latini minores, C. Halm (Leipzig: Teubner, 1863; rpt. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1964), pp. 311–352. John Monfasani, George of Trebizond. A Biography and a Study of his Rhetoric and Logic (Leiden: …
Retórica e eloguencia: The evolution of rhetorical thought in eighteenth century Spain
The Enlightenment inspired among the Spanish fundamental revisions in rhetorical theory. Restatements of classical dogma, prevalent in the early eighteenth century, gradually diminished and were replaced by a stylistic, belletristic, and ultimately modern conception of rhetoric
Books: Lost, stolen or strayed
THE RHETORIC OF ARISTOTLE. Translation by Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, O.M., Litt. D. Edited with an Introduction by John Edwin Sandys, L.H.D. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1909; pp. xxviii‐207. INSTITUTIONES ORATORIAE. By Sulpitius Victor, in Rhetores Latini minores, C. Halm (Leipzig: Teubner, 1863; rpt. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1964), pp. 311–352. John Monfasani, George of Trebizond. A Biography and a Study of his Rhetoric and Logic (Leiden: …
Retórica e eloguencia: The evolution of rhetorical thought in eighteenth century Spain
The Enlightenment inspired among the Spanish fundamental revisions in rhetorical theory. Restatements of classical dogma, prevalent in the early eighteenth century, gradually diminished and were replaced by a stylistic, belletristic, and ultimately modern conception of rhetoric
Antonio de capmany: Human nature and the nature of rhetoric
Antonio de Capmany's Filosofia de la eloquencia (1777) is the Spanish rhetorical treatise in which the epistemology of the Enlightenment is most clearly revealed. In this work Capmany posits an explicit theory of human nature which in turn dictates the nature of his theory of rhetoric. As a result of his philosophical analysis Capmany must assign to rhetoric a function which is essentially expressive
The Ancient Word: Rhetoric in Aztec Culture
ernadino de Sahagun, the foremost chronicler of sixteenth-century Mexico, observed that all nations looked to the learned and powerful to persuade, and to men eminent in moral virtues. There are examples of such men the Greeks and Romans, Spanish, French and Italians. Also among the Aztecs learned, virtuous, and enterprising were held in high esteem, and they elected high priests, lords, chiefs, and captains from among them, however low their des…
Sacred Rhetoric: The Christian Grand Style in the English Renaissance . Debora K. Shuger
A New Genus: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminization of Elocution
Mary Wollstonecraft is significant figure in the development of women's literature yet her importance in the evolution of rhetoric has yet to be fully recognized. Relatively little recognition has been accorded her work The Female Reader. Yet that text is the first elocutionary text written by a women, specifically for women, and which includes numerous selections from writing by woman authors. As such, Wollstonecraft's work initiated a place for…
Philosophy (5 works) · Rhetoric (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Enlightenment (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (2 works)