The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy

by Yun Lee Too

Book Overview

The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521124522
• ISBN13: 9780521124522
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"