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Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western
tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of
understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical
practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays
address issues of historiography and raise questions about the
application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different
ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of
these ancient rhetorics is included.
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western
tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of
understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical
practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays
address issues of historiography and raise questions about the
application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different
ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of
these ancient rhetorics is included.
ANCIENT NON-GREEK RHETORICS contributes to the recovery and
understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and
other cultures that developed independently of classical
Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as
embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt,
Mesopotamia, the ancient Near East more generally, Israel, Japan,
India, and ancient Ireland. The ten essays examine rhetorics as
broadly construed, analyzing texts, addressing silence, as well as
considering the placement and use of texts as part of multimedia
cultural communication, involving ritual along with oral, visual,
sensual, experiential, and architectural elements and performances.
CAROL S. LIPSON is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, and immediate
past chair of the Writing Program at Syracuse University. She
received her PhD in English at the University of California-Los
Angeles, where she began the study of Egyptology. She has published
on ancient Egyptian medical rhetoric, on the multimedia nature of
ancient Egyptian public texts, and on the central Egyptian value of
Maat in relation to the culture's rhetorical principles. With
Roberta Binkley, she co-edited RHETORIC BEFORE AND BEYOND THE
GREEKS (SUNY Press, 2004). ROBERTA BINKLEY received her PhD in
rhetoric from the University of Arizona. Subsequently she has
taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and at Arizona
State University. Her research has focused on Near Eastern rhetoric
in early Mesopotamia, with particular attention to the works of the
priestess and poetess Enheduanna. With Carol S. Lipson, she
co-edited RHETORIC BEFORE AND BEYOND THE GREEKS. CONTRIBUTORS
include Roberta Binkley, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Carol S. Lipson,
Yichun Liu, Arabella Lyon, Steven B. Katz, Marie Lee Mifsud, Scott
R. Stroud, James W. Watts, Xiaoye You, and Kathy Wolfe.
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