""There is not another work quite like this in the literature of philosophy and rhetoric. It is a learned and very thoughtful work, almost encyclopedic in character. O'Banion's exploration of the difference between ratio and narratio is highly original and suggestive for the relation of the rational and the rhetorical."" ---Donald Phillip Verene, Emory University Written in the form it discusses, Reorienting Rhetoric is both a narrative weaving out of a theme and a systematic treatment of a set of these ideas. The theme is the role of narration in the history of Western rhetoric. the ideas include the gradual tendency to privilege only systematic language, to discard all traditional modes of thinking, and to view narrative as an object but not as a means of thinking. Reorienting Rhetoric argues that narration is a mode of thinking as important as logic and that as narration goes, so goes rhetoric. O'Banion's perspective is heavily indebted to Quintilian, whose rhetorical question...

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