Rhetoric and Kairos

Phillip Sipiora is Professor and Associate Chair of English at The University of South Florida. He is the coeditor, with Fredric G. Gale and James L. Kinneavy, of Ethical Issues in College Writing. James S. Baumlin is Professor of English at Southwest Missouri State University. He is the author of John Donne and the Rhetorics of Renaissance Discourse and coeditor, with Tita F. Baumlin, of Ethos: New Essays in Rhetorical and Critical Theory.

• Acknowledgments ForewordCarolyn R. Miller Introduction: The Ancient Concept of KairosPhillip Sipiora 1. A New Chapter in the History of Rhetoric and SophistryAugusto Rostagni translated by Phillip Sipiora 2. Time and Qualitative TimeJohn E. Smith 3. Kairos in Classical and Modern Rhetorical TheoryJames L. Kinneavy 4. Inventional Constraints on the Technographers of Ancient Athens: A Study of Kairos/ Richard Leo Enos 5. Kairos in Gorgias' Rhetorical CompositionsJohn Poulakos 6. Hippocrates, Kairos, and Writing in the SciencesCatherine R. Eskin 7. Kairos: The Rhetoric of Time and Timing in the New TestamentPhillip Sipiora 8. Kairos and Decorum: Crassus Orator's Speech de lege ServiliaJoseph J. Hughes 9. Ciceronian Decorum and the Temporalities of Renaissance RhetoricJames S. Baumlin 10. Chronos, Kairos, Aion: Failures of Decorum, Right-Timing, and Revenge in Shakespeare's HamletJames S. Baumlin and Tita French Baumlin 11. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American KairosRoger Thompson 12. In Praise of Kairos in the Arts: Critical Time, East and WestGregory Mason 13. Changing Times in Composition Classics: Kairos, Resonance, and the Pythagorean ConnectionCarolyn Eriksen Hill 14. On Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time: Toward an Ethics of KairosAmélie Frost Benedikt 15. A Bibliography on Kairos and Related ConceptsTanya Zhelezcheva and James S. Baumlin Contributors Index

"What is most commendable about this book is the broadness of its scope, embracing in some fashion or another all the disciplines of the humanities, its essays covering topics as diverse as biblical references to kairos to the place of kairos in medicine and writing in the sciences. Worthy of special note is the effort to apply the idea of kairos to the practical aspects of writing in the composition classroom." — Bernard A. Miller, Eastern Michigan University