Oliver robert t tarbell (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/chipping, unclipped price; ownr's note on flyleaf; 260 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. 1st edition. xii, [1], 312 p.; 23 cm. Contents: Preface -- 1 Culture and rhetoric: the cultural orientation of communication, rhetorics East and West -- 2 India, the rhetorical milieu: characteristics of Indian philosophy, ancient India's social system, the uses of speech in ancient India -- 3 Caste as rhetoric in being: the caste system in India, rhetoric and untouchability, rhetoric among the Brahmins -- 4 Hinduism and other pre-Buddhistic rhetorical theories: the Upanishads, Upanishadic rhetoric, forms of debate in ancient India, the skeptics the Ajivikas and the Jains -- 5 The rhetorical influence of Gautama Buddha: the known and the unknown, the man and his message, Gautama as preacher and teacher, Gautama as rhetorician -- 6 China, the rhetorical milieu: the social setting, traditional uses of speech, speech and society: saving face -- 7 The book of history, an anthology of speeches -- 8 Confucius, the authority of tradition: germinal influences, the man: his personality and his character, the Confucian philosophy, rhetoric -- 9 The rhetoric of behavior, ceremony etiquette and methodology: manners and ethics, the book of etiquette, the book of rites, the book of changes -- 10 Mencius, the bold prophet: the assurance of righteousness, the patterns and elements of Mencian rhetoric -- 11 Theorists of human motivation: Mo-Tze the utopian, the rationalistic rhetoricians, Hsuntze: guide to superior speech -- 12 The legalistic rhetoricians: tutors of totalitarianism, Han Fei-Tzu's theory of persuasion -- 13 Rhetorical implications of Taoism: Lao-Tzu, Chuang-Tzu -- 14 Characteristics of Asian rhetoric -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. VG orig. tan cloth in edgeworn brown dj.…