Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / December 2004

Canopus,
Your msg was forwarded by a printing/XMTL-CD/website service I am
talking to.
To my knowledge, there is not a "modern" interpretation of the
Rhetoric -- many translations, commentaries, oblique references to (and
misinformation about) this work.
That said, I am writing one, with particular emphasis on public
speaking but also using many contemporary examples and illustrations.
Much -- but not all -- of what A. wrote about can be extended to
writing (eg, on metaphor).
Rather than tell you "wait 6 months or so and I plan/hope to be
done", I would be happy to try to respond to particular questions or
topics that you might be especially interested in.   I have 35 years of
teaching a common sense interpretation of the Rhetoric, and hundreds of
pages of notes.
Fell free to contact me --
Hugh Munro
(Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, Kent
State U.)
           sashathor@earthlink.net