Part I. Rhetoric in Its Place and Time -- Introduction: contingency and probability -- The politics of deliberation: oratory and democracy in Classical Athens -- Text and context in the Roman Forum: the case of Cicero's First Catilinarian -- A conversational opener: the rhetorical paradigm of John 1:1 -- Continental poetics -- "His tail at commandment": George Puttenham and the carnivalization of rhetoric -- Rhetorical selfhood in Erasmus and Milton -- Rhetoric, rights, and contract theory in the Early Modern Period -- The philosophy of rhetoric in Campbell's Philosophy of Rhetoric -- The rhetorical legacy of Kenneth Burke -- Part II. Rhetoric's Favorite Places -- Topics (and deliberation): exemplifying deliberation: Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince -- Deliberation (and topics): cultivating deliberating: mindfully resourceful innovation in and through the Federalist Papers -- Ethos: Socrates talks himself out of his body: ethical argument and personal immorality in the Phaedo -- Pathos: rhetoric and emotion -- Analogies, parables, paradoxes: get on down: Plato's rhetoric of education in the Republic -- Style: the rhetoric of the Aphorism -- Argumentation: what jokes can tell us about arguments -- Commonplaces: Sensus Communis -- Judgement: arts of persuasion and judgement: rhetoric and aesthetics -- Part III. Rhetoric and Its Critics -- Epiphany and Epideictic: the Low Modernist lyric in Robert Frost -- Lolita: solipsized or sodomized?; or, against abstraction -- in general -- Narrative as rhetoric and Edith Wharton's Roman Fever: progression, configuration, and the ethics of surprise -- "Mind the Gap": W.G. Sebald and the rhetoric of unrest -- Rhetoric in the wilderness: the deep rhetoric of the late twentieth century -- Part IV. All in Good Time -- and Timing -- Aristotle's Rhetoric and Bakhtin's Discourse Theory -- Reviving the rhetorical heritage of Protestant Theology -- Rhetoric: Time, Memory, Memoir -- Rhetoric in the Law -- Rhetorical Hermeneutics still again: or, on the track of PhronΔsis -- Rhetoric and poetics: how to use the inevitable return of the repressed -- My life with rhetoric: from neglect to obsession.;A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines. Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe. Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures. Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day. Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.