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Tables of Contents for Rhetoric and Kairos
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
xi
Introduction: The Ancient Concept of Kairos
1
22
A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and Sophistry
23
23
Time and Qualitative Time
46
12
Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical Theory
58
19
Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos
77
12
Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical Compositions
89
8
Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the Sciences
97
17
Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New Testament
114
14
Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege Servilia
128
10
Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance Rhetoric
138
27
Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's Hamlet
165
22
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Kairos
187
12
In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and West
199
12
Changing Times in Composition Classes: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean Connection
211
15
On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of Kairos
226
11
A Bibliography on Kairos and Related Concepts
237
10
Contributors
247
2
Index
249