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Facing the Challenges of Reconstructing Ancient Buildings 面对古建筑改造的挑战

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2018.1419745

Peter A. O’Connell

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Situating Deliberative Rhetoric in Ancient Greece: The Bouleutêrion as a Venue for Oratorical Performance 古希腊的情景化刻意修辞：作为演讲表演场所的Bouleutêrion

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2018.1419744

C. Johnstone, Richard Graff

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Rhetorical Touch: Disability, Identification, Haptics by Shannon Walters 作者:香农·沃尔特斯

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2018-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2018.1419747

L. Mcdermott

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Editorial Board EOV 编辑委员会EOV

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1385267

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Hawhee, Debra, Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 256 pp. ISBN 9780226398174. $45 cloth. ISBN 9780226398204. $45 eBook Hawhee，Debra，《牙齿和爪子的修辞：动物，语言，感觉》。伊利诺伊州芝加哥：芝加哥大学出版社，2017年。256页，ISBN 9780226398174$45布。为9780226398204英镑$45电子书

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1385263

J. Black

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Editor’s Note Editor’s音符

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1385245

Arthur E. Walzer

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Author Response 作者回应

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1385258

Ned O’Gorman

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Aristotle’s Rhetorical Energeia: An Extended Note 亚里士多德的修辞力能:一个扩展的音符

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1384769

Monica Westin

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Making Visual Rhetoric More Difficult 使视觉修辞更加困难

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1385247

Nathan S. Atkinson

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Rhetorical Accretion and Rhetorical Criticism in William Hazlitt’s Eloquence of the British Senate 哈兹利特《英国元老院演说》中的修辞认可与修辞批评

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2017.1384767

K. Homar

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