There is little doubt that Aristotle's "Rhetoric" has made a major impact on rhetoric and composition studies. This impact has not only been chronicled throughout the history of rhetoric, but has more recently been contested as contemporary rhetoricians reexamine Aristotelian rhetoric and its potential for facilitating contemporary oral and written expression. This volume contains the full text of Father William Grimaldi's monograph studies in the philosophy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric." The eight essays presented here are divided into three rubrics: history and philosophical orientation, theoretical perspectives, and historical impact. This collection provides teachers and students with major works on Aristotelian rhetoric that are difficult to acquire and offers readers an opportunity to become active participants in today's deliberations about the merits of Aristotelian rhetoric for contemporary teaching and research.

Contents: Introduction. Part I: Orientations to Aristotle's ^BRhetoric.^RK.V. Erickson, The Lost Rhetorics of Aristotle (1976). W.M.A. Grimaldi, Studies in the Philosophy of Aristotle's Rhetoric (1972). J.L. Kinneavy, William Grimaldi--Reinterpreting Aristotle (1987). Part II: Theoretical Issues.L.F. Bitzer, Aristotle's Enthymeme Revisited (1959). R. Nadeau, Some Aristotelian and Stoic Influences on the Theory of Stases (1959). R.L. Enos, J.M. Lauer, The Meaning of Heuristic in Aristotle's Rhetoric and Its Implication for Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (1992). Part III: Historical Perspectives.F. Solmsen, The Aristotelian Tradition in Ancient Rhetoric (1941). P.D. Brandes, Printings of Aristotle's Rhetoric During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1985).