Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student¶
Corbett, E. P. J. (1965). Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press.
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- Invention (Rhetorical Canon)
- The canon's structural commitment is that persuasive material is not created from nothing but located within a known topology of available moves — the topoi (commonplaces) that serve as a catalogue of argument-types the rhetor visits in turn, asking at each whether it generates something defensible for this case: definition (how should the key terms be delimited?), division (what are the distinguishable parts or issues?), comparison (how does this case stand relative to similar cases?), cause and consequence (what produced the situation, and what follows from each possible response?), testimony (what authorities, witnesses, or precedents bear on this?)
This sourceCorbett's common topics as a fixed checklist - definition with its division, comparison, cause and effect, antecedent and consequence, circumstance, and testimony - worked through one by one for a case.
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“the topics were the general heads under which were grouped arguments for a particular subject or occasion. They were the “regions,” the “haunts,” the “places” where certain categories of arguments resided”
- The canon's structural commitment is that persuasive material is not created from nothing but located within a known topology of available moves — the topoi (commonplaces) that serve as a catalogue of argument-types the rhetor visits in turn, asking at each whether it generates something defensible for this case: definition (how should the key terms be delimited?), division (what are the distinguishable parts or issues?), comparison (how does this case stand relative to similar cases?), cause and consequence (what produced the situation, and what follows from each possible response?), testimony (what authorities, witnesses, or precedents bear on this?)
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