George A. Kennedy

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George A. Kennedy

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According to Wikipedia, George Alexander Kennedy was an American scholar of classical rhetoric and literature. Biography George Alexander Kennedy was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 26, 1928. He received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "Prolegomena and Commentary to Quintilian VIII ". Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-eight years. He retired as George L. Paddison professor of classics. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1959. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

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On rhetoric : a theory of civic discourse (1993) (935)
The Art of Persuasion in Greece (1963) (544)
Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times (1980) (506)
A new history of classical rhetoric (1994) (349)
New Testament Interpretation through Rhetorical Criticism (1984) (263)
Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross Cultural Introduction (1997) (199)
Progymnasmata : Greek textbooks of prose composition and rhetoric (2004) (127)
The art of rhetoric in the Roman world, 300 B.C.-A.D. 300 (1962) (122)
Greek rhetoric under Christian emperors (1983) (116)
The Earliest Rhetorical Handbooks (1959) (90)
Ancient literary criticism : the principal texts in new translations (1972) (67)
Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark (1986) (51)
The Rhetoric of Advocacy in Greece and Rome (1968) (49)
Two Greek rhetorical treatises from the Roman Empire : introduction, text, and translation of the arts of rhetoric, attributed to Anonymous Seguerianus and to Apsines of Gadara (1997) (49)
The Ancient Dispute over Rhetoric in Homer (1957) (48)
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (1990) (47)
Encolpius and Agamemnon in Petronius (1978) (46)
A Hoot in the Dark : The Evolution of General Rhetoric (2018) (45)
Aristotelis Ars Rhetorica (1960) (41)
"Longinus", on Sublimity (1966) (29)
Two Tone Patterns in Tangsic (1953) (26)
Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral (1968) (23)
Invention and Method: Two Rhetorical Treatises from the Hermogenic Corpus (2005) (20)
Focusing of Arguments in Greek Deliberative Oratory (1959) (17)
Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion (1994) (15)
Errata (2001) (15)
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: A Translation of Choricius of Gaza's Preliminary Talks and Declamations (2009) (15)
Apsines’ Art of Rhetoric (1997) (15)
An Estimate of Quintilian (1962) (13)
Isocrates' Encomium of Helen: A Panhellenic Document (1958) (12)
Cicero's Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacy (2002) (12)
The Monosyllabic Myth (1951) (12)
A Study of the Particle Yen (1940) (12)
Interpretation of the Ch'un-Ch'iu (1942) (10)
Theophrastus and Stylistic Distinctions (1957) (10)
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. 1: Classical Criticism (1992) (8)
Selected Works of George A. Kennedy (1964) (8)
The evolution of a theory of artistic prose (1990) (7)
Aristotle on the Period (1958) (7)
Some Recent Controversies in the Study of Later Greek Rhetoric (2003) (6)
Rhetorical Questions (1995) (6)
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume I: Classical Criticism (1991) (6)
Han Shih Wai Chuan (1954) (6)
The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World. 300 B. C.-300 A. D. (1974) (6)
Review Article: The Present State of the Study of Ancient Rhetoric (1975) (5)
Another Note on Yen (1953) (5)
A Minimum Vocabulary in Modern Chinese (1937) (5)
Hellenistic literary and philosophical scholarship (1990) (4)
Dai Kanwa jiten [The Great Chinese-Japanese Dictionary] . Vol. I. By Morohashi Tetsuji. Tokyo: Dai Shūkan Shoten, 1955. v, vii, x, iii, 1082. (1957) (4)
A new history of classical rhetoric : an extensive revision and abridgment of the Art of persuasion in Greece, the Art of rhetoric in the Roman world, and Greek rhetoric under Christian emperors, with additional discussion of late Latin rhetoric (1994) (4)
Introduction to spoken Chinese (1942) (4)
History of Rhetoric, Volume I: The Art of Persuasion in Greece (2015) (4)
Language and meaning in archaic and classical Greece (1990) (3)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians (Adversus Mathematicos I) (review) (2000) (3)
Language and meaning in archaic and classical Greece (1990) (3)
Metrical "Irregularity" in The Shih ching (1939) (3)
The Rhetorica of Guillaume Fichet (1987) (3)
The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow by Judah Messer Leon (1984) (2)
Gildersleeve, the Journal, and Philology in America (1980) (2)
M. F. Quintiliani Institutionis Oratoriae Liber III (1968) (2)
Shifting visions of classical paradigms: The “same” and the “other” (1994) (2)
The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens, Joseph Roisman (2008) (2)
Sophists and physicians of the Greek enlightenment (1985) (2)
Roman declamation in the generation after quintilian (2007) (2)
Classics and Canons (1990) (2)
Voiced Gutturals in Tangsic (1952) (2)
The Oratory of Andocides (1958) (2)
Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (review) (2000) (2)
Quintilian on retirement (1998) (1)
ZH Guide: An Introduction to Sinology (1953) (1)
The contributions of rhetoric to literary criticism (1997) (1)
LATIN CRITICISM OF THE EARLY EMPIRE (2008) (1)
Greek Criticism of the Empire (1990) (1)
Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III, the Mencius, Books I-III@@@Talks on Chinese History (Jūnggwo Lìshř Jyǎnghwà)@@@Ch'ing Documents. An Introductory Syllabus@@@Talks on Chinese History (Junggwo Lishr Jyanghwa) (1953) (1)
. Thessalonians, Galatians, Romans (1984) (1)
Cicero, Nine Orations and the Dream of Scipio. With an Introduction (1968) (1)
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms (1997) (1)
Chinese Reader for Beginners (1942) (1)
Dating of Chinese Dynasties and Reigns (1941) (1)
Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: Idea-Theory and Its Literary Context (review) (2000) (1)
Some reflections on neomodernism (1988) (1)
A Course of Colloquial Chinese.@@@Literary Chinese, by the Inductive Method. Volume I. The Hsiao Ching. (1938) (0)
An Introduction to the Rhetoric of the Gospels (1983) (0)
The 3000 Commonest Chinese Terms. (1949) (0)
CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: The Nature of Rhetoric (1963) (0)
. Epideictic Rhetoric: John 13–17 (1984) (0)
Declamation 6 [XXIII]: (2009) (0)
Book Review: Himerius, Man and the Word: The Orations of Himerius, Edited by Robert J. Penella, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage XLIII (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007) XIV + 312 pp. (2009) (0)
Dates in Giles' Biographical Dictionary (1950) (0)
The Speeches in Acts (1984) (0)
. Deliberative Rhetoric: The Sermon on the Mount, the Sermon on the Plain, and the Rhetoric of Jesus (1984) (0)
Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (1988) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: Declamation 10 [XXXVIII]: (2009) (0)
Declamation 1 [X]: (2009) (0)
Declamation 2 [XII]: (2009) (0)
Studies in Chinese Thought . Edited by Wright Arthur F.. Memoir No. 7 of The American Anthropological Association. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. xiv, 317. $4.00. (1955) (0)
The Rhetoric of the Early Christian Liturgy (1990) (0)
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquit (review) (2002) (0)
. Judicial Rhetoric: Second Corinthians (1984) (0)
The Art of Political Speech (1997) (0)
Biographies of Meng Hao-jan . Translated and Annotated by Hans H. Frankel. Institute of East Asiatic Studies, University of California, Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations, No. 1. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1952. 25. $.50. (1953) (0)
Minimum Vocabularies of Written Chinese (1973) (0)
CHAPTER TWELVE. Christianity and Classical Rhetoric (2009) (0)
Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture c. 1000–c. 1650 ed. by Georgia Clarke, Paul Crossley (review) (2001) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. The Attic Orators (1963) (0)
Declamation 12 [XLII]: (2009) (0)
CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Second Sophistic (2009) (0)
Christianity and Criticism (1990) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Greek Rhetorical Theory from Corax to Aristotle (2009) (0)
Declamation 9 [XXXV]: (2009) (0)
The Rhetoric of the Gospels (1984) (0)
Book reviews (1979) (0)
CHAPTER TEN. Greek Rhetoric under the Roman Empire (2009) (0)
Chapter Three. Early Rhetorical Theory, Corax to Aristotle (1963) (0)
Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and Guides. Vol. V.Edward Cranz , Paul Oskar Kristeller (1985) (0)
Index of Authors and Texts Cited in the Treatises (1997) (0)
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: Preliminary Talks (2009) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Hellenistic Rhetoric (2009) (0)
Declamation 7 [XXVI]: (2009) (0)
Chapter Two. Techniques of Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. (1963) (0)
Aelius Theon: Progymnasmata (review) (1998) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: Frontmatter (2009) (0)
Introduction to kana orthography (1943) (0)
Declamation 10 [XXXVIII]: (2009) (0)
CHAPTER EIGHT. Rhetoric in Augustan Rome (2009) (0)
The Classical Authors since 1900: Platnauer's "Fifty Years of Classical Scholarship". A Review-Article (Continued) (1956) (0)
The Classical Authors since 1900: Platnauer's "Fifty Years of Classical Scholarship". A Review-Article (Continued) (1956) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Chapter Five. Hellenistic Rhetoric to the Arrival in Rome of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1963) (0)
Northeastern Asia: A Selected Bibliography. Contributions to the Bibliography of the Relations of China, Russia, and Japan, with Special Reference to Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Eastern Siberia, in Oriental and European Languages Robert J. Kerner (1941) (0)
Equation No. 5: (Chinese Fusion-Words) (1947) (0)
Declamation 3 [XIV]: (2009) (0)
Rhetorical Exercises from Late Antiquity: Bibliography (2009) (0)
Literary Chinese by the Inductive Method, Volume III, the Mencius, Books I-IIITalks on Chinese History (Jūnggwo Lìshř Jyǎnghwà)Ch'ing Documents. An Introductory SyllabusTalks on Chinese History (1953) (0)
Didymos, On Demosthenes, Translated with Introduction, Text, and Commentary by Phillip (sic) Harding, ser. Clarendon Ancient History Series (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), X + 286 pp. (2009) (0)
Index of Other Proper Names (1997) (0)
Declamation 5 [XX]: (2009) (0)
The Shadow of Isocrates. (1972) (0)
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Survival of Classical Rhetoric from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2009) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Persuasion in Greek Literature before 400 B.C. (2009) (0)
Appendix. The Introduction to "On the ancient orators" by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1963) (0)
Declamation 8 [XXIX]: (2009) (0)
Declamation 11 [XL]: (2009) (0)
CHAPTER NINE. Latin Rhetoric in the Silver Age (2009) (0)
A beginner's English-Chinese vocabulary (1944) (0)
Magnum Lexicon Sinico-Latinum . By Ernest Böhm, S.V.D., and Theodore Mittler. Hongkong: St. Paul's Press, 1957, xxiii, 1986. Appendices. $20.00. (1958) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Early Roman Rhetoric (2009) (0)
'ELECTRIFYING' RHETORIC OF 1906 (2003) (0)

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