Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

by Michelle Ballif

The rhetorical tradition, Michelle Ballif asserts, is based on the systematic exclusion of sophistry. In keeping with Aristotle's prescription, rhetoric continues to be a counterpart to dialectic, a handmaiden to the pursuit of truth--even if that truth is merely probable.

According to Ballif, this search for truth manifests itself among current rhetoric and composition scholars in the form of an assumption that language is primarily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323338
• ISBN13: 9780809323333
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"