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

by Swearingen, C. Jan; Kaufer, David S.

• ISBN13: 9781410603296
• ISBN10: 1410603296
• Copyright: 1999-08-12
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This volume of select conference papers respresents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines including topics of race, technology, and religion. It is of interest to scholars in classical & contemporary rhetoric and related fields.<

Table of Contents

Preface

Introductions

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Now and Then

Inclusive Rhetorics and Lost Voices

Race and Rhetoric: An Unlikely Tandem?

Latina and Latino Rhetorical Issues

Redefining an 800-Pound Godzilla

Cybercommunities and McLuhan: A Retrospect

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion and Rhetoric

Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Practices Keynote Address

Sarah's Story: Making a Place for Historical Ethnography in Rhetorical Studies

Selections From the Charles Kneupper Memorial Lecture.

Rhetoric and Culture/Rhetoric and Technology

Classical Roots

Pity and the Polis

The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric

Orality, Literacy, and Isocrates' Political Aesthetics

Pudentilla's Anger: The Indirect Discourse of a Roman Matron

Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric

Rhetorics of Culture/Recovering Rhetorical Cultures

Unstifling the Rhetorical Impulse: Style and Invention in Thomas De Quincey's Rhetoric

Performing Conversion: Washingtonian (In)Temperance Rhetorics

Brave New World: How Alexander Bain's Educational Reforms Addressed Student Needs During the Industrial Age

Facing the Audience: Reconsidering "Audience" Through the Chinese Concept of "Face."

The Incorporation of the Indian Body: Peyotism and the Pan-Indian Public, 1911-1923

Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, and the Creation of a Women's Tradition of Rhetoric

Reconstructing Home in Early Feminist Rhetorics: The Religious Discourses of Protestantism and Transcendentalism as Sites of Production for Sarah Grimké and Margaret Fuller

Rhetoric Tech: Defining Rhetorics in Modern Media and Electronic Discourses

Are the Barbarians of Technology Knocking at the Gate? Vico and Scientism in Twentieth-Century Culture

It's a Great Place to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There: Virtual American Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century

CyberEthos: Ethos as a Cybernetic System

And Now a Word About Our Sponsors: Advertising and Ethos in the Age of the Global Village

Dialectic of Technology: Critical Affinities Between Kenneth Burke and the Frankfurt School

Rhetorics of Ethics and Agency

Rhetoric, Democracy, and the Deliberative Horizon

When Language Is Just Another Commodity: Enlightenment Theories, Erasure of Agency, and the End of the Political

Nourishing Equality, Converting Difference: Matthew Arnold and the Rhetoric of Popular Education

The Rhetoric of Civility and the Fate of Argument

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