Table of Contents

PART I: RHETORIC IN SOCIETIES WITHOUT WRITING
1. Rhetoric Among Social Animals
2. Rhetorical Factors in the Early Development of Human Language
3. Rhetoric in Aboriginal Australian Culture
4. Formal Speech in Some Oral Cultures
5. North American Indian Rhetoric
PART II: RHETORIC IN ANCIENT LITERATE SOCIETIES
6. Literacy and Rhetoric in the Ancient Near East
7. Rhetoric in Ancient China
8. Rhetoric in Ancient India
9. Rhetoric in Greece and Rome

About the Author

George A. Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina for twenty-eight years and now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is the author of many books, and is the renowned translator of Aristotle's On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse (OUP, 1991).

Reviews

"Perfect for my Rhetoric Survey course. It fills a void in non-Western and pre-Greco-Roman areas. A magnificent book."--Andrew King, Louisiana State University
"Timely! A work of scholarly leadership--essential reading."--Judith Yaross Lee, Ohio University
"Fabulous! This is exactly the type of work needed to place the rhetorical tradition within cross-cultural structures."--J. Rocky Lozavito, Northwestern State University
"Very useful as a research resource in Intercultural Communication."--Diana Peck, William Patterson University