To analyse and deconstruct these false narratives, Aristotle’s principles of rhetoric, particularly the use of syllogisms and enthymemes, provide a powerful lens through which we can expose the ...
Trump’s speeches may seem rambling and incoherent, his ‘weave’ is actually part of a carefully constructed narrative.
And, as Puttenham’s Arte of English Poesie makes clear, early modern poetry was as deeply rhetorical as Aristotle’s oratory, an art that aimed to move as much by mimetic truth as well-wrought argument ...
A collection of primary sources, it combines classic statements of the theory of political rhetoric (Aristotle, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Cicero) with a rich array of political speeches, from Socrates ...
It explores central themes from Aristotle's corpus, including logic, rhetoric and poetics, physics and meteorology, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and politics, and examines how these themes are ...