Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric

by Enos; Theresa Jarnagin

• ISBN13: 9780805844085
• ISBN10: 0805844082
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this collection of original essays, editors Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller join their contributors--a veritable "who's who" in composition scholarship--in seeking to illuminate and complicate many of the tensions present in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributions included here emphasize key issues in past and present work, setting the stage for future thought and study. The book also honors the late Jim Corder, a major figure in the development of the rhetoric and composition discipline. In the spirit of Corder's unfinished work, the contributors to this volume absorb, probe, stretch, redefine, and interrogate classical, modern, and postmodern rhetorics--and challenge their limitations. Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students in rhetoric and composition, English, and communication studies. Offering a provocative discussion of postprocess composition theories and pedagogies and postmodern rhetorics, as well as the first thorough consideration of Jim Corder's contributions, this work is certain to influence the course of future study and research.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Part I: Historical Context---Rhetoric and Composition Studies	1	(22)
The Spaciousness of Rhetoric	3	(20)
Janice Lauer
Part II: Theory-Building and Critiquing Corderian Rhetoric	23	(106)
Toward a Corderian Theory of Rhetoric	25	(34)
James S. Baumlin
Jim Corder's Radical, Feminist Rhetoric	59	(20)
Keith D. Miller
The Uses of Rhetoric	79	(10)
W. Ross Winterowd
Preaching What He Practices, Jim Corder's Irascible and Articulate Oeuvre	89	(14)
Wendy Bishop
A Writer's Haunting Presence	103	(14)
Pat C. Hoy II
Finding Jim's Voice: A Problem in Ethos and Personal Identity	117	(12)
George E. Yoos
Part III: Parallels, Extensions, and Applications	129	(72)
A Call for Comity	131	(28)
Theresa Enos
Toward an Adequate Pedagogy for Rhetorical Argumentation: A Case Study in Invention	159	(12)
Richard E. Young
Rhetoric and Conflict Resolution	171	(14)
Richard Lloyd-Jones
Rhetoricians at War and Peace	185	(16)
Elizabeth Ervin
Part IV: Theoretical, Pedagogical, and Institutional Issues	201	(66)
Bringing Over Yonder Over Here: A Personal Look at Expressivist Rhetoric As Ideological Action	203	(14)
Tilly Warnock
A More Spacious Model of Writing and Literacy	217	(18)
Peter Elbow
Weaving a Way Home: Composing a Personal Geography	235	(16)
John Warnock
Who Owns Creative Nonfiction?	251	(16)
Douglas Hesse
Author Index	267	(4)
Subject Index	271	(4)
Notes on Contributors	275