Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual

by Bizzell; Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780805853117
• ISBN10: 0805853111
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This edited collection offers a broad consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in current theory and research. The volume starts off with transcripts of the talks presented by the conference's featured speakers. The essays that follow are organized around five key topics: history, theory, pedagogy, publics, and gender. These chapters address subjects ranging from religious identity to civil rights; from weapons of mass destruction to literacy testing and electronic texts, reflecting the wide array of areas under study across the rhetoric discipline. With contributions from well-known scholars as well as newcomers, the breadth and diversity of this collection make a significant contribution to rhetorical scholarship, and will stimulate additional work. As such, the volume will be of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Contributors	xiii
I Rhetorical Agendas
Rhetorics Fast and Slow	3	(8)
Lester L. Faigley
Moral Vernaculars and Rhetorics of Conscience	11	(14)
Gerard A. Hauser
Rudolph Agricola's Contribution to Rhetorical Theory	25	(16)
Peter Mack
Responsible Citizenship: Ethos, Action and the Voices of African American Women	41	(18)
Jacqueline Jones Royster
II History
The Centrality of Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Methodist Preaching	59	(10)
Lois Agnew
Between Iconophilia and Iconophobia: Milton's Areopagitica and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture	69	(8)
Kristie S. Fleckenstein
Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae: Acumen, Memory, and the Imaginative Universals	77	(10)
Catalina Gonzalez
The Spiritual and Secular Rhetoric of Happiness in Joseph Smith and John Stuart Mill	87	(10)
David Gore
Nooses and Neck Verses: The Life and Death Consequences of Literacy Testing	97	(12)
Connie Kendall
Campbell's View of Argument as Comparison Advances His Religious Agenda	109	(8)
Beth Innocenti Manolescu
III Theory
Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, and the Transubstantiation of Place	117	(6)
Jerry Blitefield
Private Commitments and Public Rhetoric: Implications for Ethical Practice	123	(8)
Barbara Couture
Reading Talmud: Levinas and the Possibility of Rhetoric	131	(6)
Richard R. Glejzer
Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop Whately	137	(8)
G. Thomas Goodnight
David B. Hingstman
White Space as Rhetorical Space: Usability and Image in Electronic Texts	145	(6)
Joddy Murray
On a Rhetorical Techne of the Moral-Emotions	151	(6)
Ellen Quandahl
Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music	157	(8)
Thomas Rickert
The Scientific Media Hoax: A Rhetoric for Reconciling Linguistics and Literary Criticism	165	(14)
Lynda Walsh
IV Pedagogy
Serving Academic Capitalism: The Cultural Function of Community-Based Partnerships	179	(6)
Danika M. Brown
Progymnasmata, Then and Now	185	(8)
Christy Desmet
The Traditional Made New: Jasinski's Sourcebook on Rhetoric	193	(6)
David Henry
Electronic Versions of Collaborative Pedagogy: A Brief Survey	199	(6)
Mara Holt
Albert Rouzie
Reclaiming Hybridity: How One Filipino American Counterpublic Hybridizes Academic Discourse	205	(8)
Terese Guinsatao Monberg
Public Portals, Catholic Walls: Teacher Training and the Liberal Arts at Two Western Massachusetts Colleges for Women in the 1930s, the College of Our Lady of the Elms and the State Teachers College at Westfield	213	(12)
Beth Ann Rothermel
V Publics
Rhetorical Landscapes and Religious Identity	225	(8)
Gregory D. Clark
The Doxicon: Image, Strategy, and the Undoing of Consent	233	(10)
Dana L. Cloud
Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers	243	(8)
Kristen E. Hoerl
The Political Unconscious of Rhetoric: The Case of the Master-Planned Community	251	(10)
Thomas J. Kinney
Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction Here? Violence, Blowback and the Rhetorical Agenda of WMDs	261	(6)
Kevin Douglas Kuswa
Emotion and Community Rhetorics: Victim Impact Statements as Cultural Pedagogy	267	(8)
Lisa Langstraat
Rhetorically Contained: The Construction and Incorporation of Difference in Will & Grace	275	(6)
Danielle M. Mitchell
When Agonism Is Agony: Thomas Sloane, Controversia, and Political Discourse	281	(6)
Patricia Roberts-Miller
Humanism and Cold War Rhetoric: The Ambiguous Rhetorical Legacy of Niels Bohr	287	(16)
Lisa Storm Villadsen
VI Gender
The Persuasion of Esther: A Nun's Model of Silent, Seductive, Violent Rhetoric	303	(6)
Julie A. Bokser
Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century American Clubwomen: Parallels of Feminist Rhetorics, Civic Reform, and Spiritual Agendas	309	(8)
Beth Burmester
``Feeling'' Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	317	(8)
Jami Carlacio
Using the Needle as a Sword: Needlework as Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union	325	(10)
Sue Carter
Beyond Opposition: Reconceptualizing Social Movements Through the Spiritual and Imaginative Rhetorics of This Bridge Called My Back and this bridge we call home	335	(10)
Christa Jean Downer
The Perfected Mother: Listening, Ethos, and Identification in Cases of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome	345	(6)
Julie Jung
Margaret Fell and the Problem of Women's Ethos	351	(6)
Christine Mason Sutherland
Author Index	357	(8)
Subject Index	365