Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Selected Papers From the 1998 Thirtieth Anniversary Rhetoric Society of America Conference

by Swearingen; C. Jan

• ISBN13: 9780805832945
• ISBN10: 0805832947
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Villagerepresents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village and today's rhetorical rehearsals for a political global economy. Originating from the 1998 Rhetoric Society of America's biennial conference, and representing the 30-year anniversary of the organization, this volume offers to all readers the keynote lectures and selected papers celebrating the universality of rhetoric across cultures. As a benchmark for the scholarship and growth of the rhetoric discipline in recent history, it will be of great interest to scholars in classical and contemporary rhetoric, writing, and other fields in which rhetoric has attained critical significance and influence.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introductions	1	(2)
Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Now and Then	3	(6)
C. Jan Swearingen
Inclusive Rhetorics and Lost Voices	9	(2)
Shirley Wilson Logan
Race and Rhetoric: An Unlikely Tandem?	11	(4)
Kermit E. Campbell
Latina and Latino Rhetorical Issues	15	(4)
Jaime Armin Mejia
Redefining an 800-Pound Godzilla	19	(4)
Jacqueline Lambiase
Cybercommunities and McLuhan: A Retrospect	23	(4)
Collin Gifford Brooke
Seven Ways of Looking at Religion and Rhetoric	27	(4)
Grant Boswell
Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Practices	31	(6)
Cheryl Glenn
Keynote Address	37	(16)
Sarah's Story: Making a Place for Historical Ethnography in Rhetorical Studies	39	(14)
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Selections from the Charles Kneupper Memorial Lecture	53	(10)
Rhetoric and Culture/Rhetoric and Technology	55	(8)
George A. Kennedy
I. Classical Roots	63	(48)
Pity and the Polis	65	(10)
Shawn Smith
The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric	75	(8)
Bruce McComiskey
Orality, Literacy, and Isocrates' Political Aesthetics	83	(10)
Ekaterina Haskins
Pudentilla's Anger: The Indirect Discourse of a Roman Matron	93	(10)
Margaret Imber
Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric	103	(8)
Stephen McKenna
II Rhetorics of Culture/Recovering Rhetorical Cultures	111	(62)
Unstifling the Rhetorical Impulse: Style and Invention in Thomas De Quincey's Rhetoric	113	(8)
Lois Agnew
Performing Conversion: Washingtonian (In) Temperance Rhetorics	121	(8)
Jill Swiencicki
Brave New World: How Alexander Bain's Educational Reforms Addressed Student Needs During the Industrial Age	129	(10)
Shelley Aley
Facing the Audience: Reconsidering ``Audience'' Through the Chinese Concept of ``Face''	139	(8)
Pegeen Reichert Powell
The Incorporation of the Indian Body: Peyotism and the Pan-Indian Public, 1911-23	147	(8)
Scott Richard Lyons
Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, and the Creation of a Women's Tradition of Rhetoric	155	(8)
Jane Donawerth
Reconstructing Home in Early Feminist Rhetorics: The Religious Discourses of Protestantism and Transcendentalism as Sites of Production for Sarah Grimke and Margaret Fuller	163	(10)
Melissa J. Fiesta
III. Rhetoric Tech: Defining Rhetorics in Modern Media and Electronic Discourses	173	(46)
Are the Barbarians of Technology Knocking at the Gate? Vico and Scientism in Twentieth-Century Culture	175	(8)
Susan Giesemann North
It's a Great Place to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There: Virtual American Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century	183	(8)
S. Michael Halloran
Gregory Clark
CyberEthos: Ethos as a Cybernetic System	191	(8)
Kristie S. Fleckenstein
And Now a Word About Our Sponsors: Advertising and Ethos in the Age of the Global Village	199	(10)
Sally Gill
Dialectic of Technology: Critical Affinities between Kenneth Burke and the Frankfurt School	209	(10)
Ed Cutler
IV. Rhetorics of Ethics and Agency	219	(36)
Rhetoric, Democracy, and the Deliberative Horizon	221	(10)
Alan Bilansky
When Language is Just Another Commodity: Enlightenment Theories, Erasure of Agency, and the End of the Political	231	(8)
Doug Sweet
Nourishing Equality, Converting Difference: Matthew Arnold and the Rhetoric of Popular Education	239	(8)
David C. Plotkin
The Rhetoric of Civility and the Fate of Argument	247	(8)
Rolf Norgaard
Index	255