Professing Rhetoric : Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

by Antczak, Frederick J.; Coggins, Cinda; Klinger, Geoffrey D.

• ISBN13: 9781410612342
• ISBN10: 1410612341
• Copyright: 2002-02-12
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume represents current theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and is of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface

Rhetoric as a Vocation: A Weberian Mediation

The Politics of Professing Rhetoric in the History of Composition and Communication

Sleeping With the Enemy: Recoupling Rhetorical Studies and Rhetoric and Composition

Toward Finding Common Critical and Pedagogical Ground

Republican Rhetoric and Subversity: Speaking for White Women and American Indians in the 1820sD. Gussman

Rhetorical Education for Political Action: The League of Women Voters and the Subversion of Political Parties in the 1920s

Between Speech and Print

When the 'Past Is Not Even Past': The Rhetoric of a Southern Historical Marker

Kairos and the Rhetorical Place

Rhetoric and the Body: A Lesson From Ancient Elocutionists

Live From the Operating Room: A Generic Visual Rhetoric

Policing the Architectural Canon: The Gendered Discourse of Architectural Studies

Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Collective Authorship: Rethinking Ethos and the Politics of Disclosure

Mediated Ethos: Instructor Credibility in a Televised Writing Course

The Essay Matters Because the Essayist Matters: Personal Disclosures and the Enactment of Ethos in Essays by Black Feminist Writers

Apologizing for Authority: The Rhetoric of the Prefaces of Eliza Cook, Isabelle Bird, and Hannah More

Romantic Heroism and "Public Character": Ethical Criticism of Performative Traditions in Public Discourse

Paranarrative and the Performance of Creative Nonfiction

Preparing Ethical Citizens for the Twenty-First Century

Rhetoric and Ethics: Is "How Should We Proceed?" the Wrong Question?

Public Schools, Private Ethics: Rhetoric of Service in Composition

The Rhetoric of Globalization, Graduate Student Labor, and Practices of Resistance

Rereading the Literacy Crisis of American Colleges and Universities

Sophistic Masks and Rhetorical Nomads

Paideia Versus Techne: Isocrates' Performative Conception of Rhetorical Education

Thoroughly Modern Vico: The New Science and Counter-Enlightenment Politics

Rhetoric of Science as Non-Modern Practice

Ending the War Between Science and Religion: Can Rhetorology Do the Job?

The Open Question of the Conversation Between Science and Religion: A Response to Wayne Booth's Rhetorology

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