Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

by Enos; Theresa Jarnagin

• ISBN13: 9780805820140
• ISBN10: 0805820140
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's The Prospect of Rhetoric.In so doing, the conference gave scholars and teachers in various disciplines from all over the country the opportunity to talk about new prospects for rhetoric. The conferees were asked to present their vision of rhetoric studies or to demonstrate what rhetoric studies could be by example. Their essays, presented in this volume, illustrate a discipline at odds over the future and demonstrate the continued influence and vitality of other papers, on the same subject, published some 25 years ago.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Theresa Enos
Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric	1	(14)
Roxanne Mountford
Part I The Prospect of Rhetoric: Twenty-Five Years Later	15	(42)
Rhetoric's Prospects: Past and Future	15	(6)
Lloyd F. Bitzer
The Prospect of Rhetoric: Twenty-Five Years Later	21	(8)
Edwin Black
"We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device": Rhetoric in Speech Communication after Wingspread	29	(8)
Carole Blair
The Prospect of Rhetorical Agency	37	(6)
Patricia Bizzell
How Far We've Come; How Far We Have To Go	43	(6)
Mary Garrett
Rhetoric 2000: The New Prospects	49	(8)
Steven Mailloux
Part II Positions and Perspectives: Rhetoric, Community, and Social Action	57	(52)
Some Further Trends in Rhetorical Theory	57	(8)
Henry W. Johnstone, Jr.
The Ends of Rhetoric: Aesthetic, Political, Epistemic	65	(10)
Leah Ceccarelli
The Rhetoric of Community at Century's End	75	(8)
James F. Klumpp
Genre and Social Science: Renewing Hopes of Wingspread	83	(8)
Charles Bazerman
Is the Prospect of Rhetoric Antirhetorical? Or Rhetoric's Critical Impulse	91	(8)
David Sebberson
A Feminist Glance at Critical Rhetoric	99	(10)
Martha Cooper
Part III The Prospects of Rhetoric: New Perspectives	109	(102)
The History of Language Conventions on Mary Augusta Jordan's Rhetoric Text, Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)	109	(6)
Susan Kates
The Enthymeme Examined from the Chinese Value System	115	(8)
Hui Wu
Crying for Revision: Postmodern Indians and Rhetorics of Tradition	123	(10)
Scott Lyons
Rhetorical Study and Practice in the Zone: Chicano/as, Sky Rhetoric, and Earth Rhetoric	133	(8)
Rex Veeder
A Hermeneutic View of Scientific Metaphor: A Move Away from Assumptions of Causality in the Rhetoric of Science	141	(8)
Richard Johnson-Sheehan
The Prospect of Rhetoric in Writing across the Curriculum	149	(8)
Rolf Norgaard
Luce Irigaray and the Ethics of Sexual Difference: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Rhetoric	157	(8)
Janice Norton
Hecklers and the Communication Triangle	165	(8)
Ulrike Zinn Jaeckel
Road Guides and Travelers' Tales on the Lincoln Highway	173	(8)
Gregory Clark
Entering the Rhetorical City: The Metropolitan Prospect of Rhetoric	181	(8)
Van E. Hillard
Memory Arts, Electronic Topoi, and Dynamic Databases	189	(8)
Dianne L. Juby
An Allegory	197	(4)
Winifred Bryan Horner
The Rhetoric Blues	201	(6)
Marvin Diogenes
Epilogue: On Divisions and Diversity in Rhetoric	207	(4)
Carolyn R. Miller
Index	211