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The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education

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At its very center, The Cultivation of Character and Culture in Roman Rhetorical Education: The Available Means is a study of the subtle, organic ways that rhetoric can work to cultivate a particular character. This is an extension of the current work in composition studies, which focus on the ways that writing instruction contributes to the development of individual power and agency in students, combined with an ancient understanding of the ways that students learned to act within a particular, accepted cultural framework. It recognizes and reclaims a lost dimension of rhetoric, a dimension that is conceptually linked to the martial culture of the ancient world, to show how ancient rhetorical theory framed the discipline as an education in thinking, speaking, and acting in ways that were necessary to be both a persuasive speaker and an effective leader. Through close readings and analysis of particular rhetorical exercises, the book shows how rhetorical education shaped characters that were appropriate in the eyes of the dominant culture but were also capable of working independently to progressively alter that culture. In showing the ways that rhetorical education shaped a particular character, the book demonstrates the ways that the combination character, culture, and virtue are vital to leadership in any time.

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ISBN: 9781032316789
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Author: Anthony Edward United States Military Academy, West Point, USA Zupancic
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 158 pages
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
Genres: Historiography
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Historical and comparative linguistics