Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual

by Bizzell; Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780805853100
• ISBN10: 0805853103
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-12
• 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
1 Rhetorics Fast and Slow	3	(8)
Lester L. Faigley
2 Moral Vernaculars and Rhetorics of Conscience	11	(14)
Gerard A. Hauser
3 Rudolph Agricola's Contribution to Rhetorical Theory	25	(16)
Peter Mack
4 Responsible Citizenship: Ethos, Action and the Voices of African American Women	41	(18)
Jacqueline Jones Royster
II History
5 The Centrality of Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Methodist Preaching	59	(10)
Lois Agnew
6 Between Iconophilia and Iconophobia: Milton's Areopagitica and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture	69	(8)
Kristie S. Fleckenstein
7 Vico's Institutiones Oratoriae: Acumen, Memory, and the Imaginative Universals	77	(10)
Catalina González
8 The Spiritual and Secular Rhetoric of Happiness in Joseph Smith and John Stuart Mill	87	(10)
David Gore
9 Nooses and Neck Verses: The Life and Death Consequences of Literacy Testing	97	(254)
Connie Kendall
10 Campbell's View of Argument as Comparison Advances His Religious Agenda	109	(8)
Beth Innocenti Manolescu
III Theory
11 Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, and the Transubstantiation of Place	117	(6)
Jerry Blitefield
12 Private Commitments and Public Rhetoric: Implications for Ethical Practice	123	(8)
Barbara Couture
13 Reading Talmud: Levinas and the Possibility of Rhetoric	131	(6)
Richard R. Glejzer
14 Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: A Study of Archbishop Whately	137	(8)
G. Thomas Goodnight and David B. Hingstman
15 White Space as Rhetorical Space: Usability and Image in Electronic Texts	145	(6)
Joddy Murray
16 On a Rhetorical Techne of the Moral-Emotions	151	(6)
Ellen Quandahl
17 Language's Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music	157	(8)
Thomas Rickert
18 The Scientific Media Hoax: A Rhetoric for Reconciling Linguistics and Literary Criticism	165	(14)
Lynda Walsh
IV Pedagogy
19 Serving Academic Capitalism: The Cultural Function of Community-Based Partnerships	179	(6)
Danika M. Brown
20 Progymnasmata, Then and Now	185	(8)
Christy Desmet
21 The Traditional Made New: Jasinski's Sourcebook on Rhetoric	193	(6)
David Henry
22 Electronic Versions of Collaborative Pedagogy: A Brief Survey	199	(6)
Mara Holt and Albert Rouzie
23 Reclaiming Hybridity: How One Filipino American Counterpublic Hybridizes Academic Discourse	205	(8)
Terese Guinsatao Monberg
24 Public Portals, Catholic Walls: Teacher Training and the Liberal Arts at Two Western Massachusetts Colleges for Women in the 1930's, the College of Our Lady of the Elms and the State Teachers College at Westfield	213	(12)
Beth Ann Rothermel
V Publics
25 Rhetorical Landscapes and Religious Identity	225	(8)
Gregory D. Clark
26 The Doxicon: Image, Strategy, and the Undoing of Consent	233	(10)
Dana L. Cloud
27 Representing Byron de la Beckwith in Film and Journalism: Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers	243	(8)
Kristen E. Hoerl
28 The Political Unconscious of Rhetoric: The Case of the Master-Planned Community	251	(10)
Thomas J. Kinney
29 Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction Here? Violence, Blowback and the Rhetorical Agenda of WMDs	261	(6)
Kevin Douglas Kuswa
30 Emotion and Community Rhetorics: Victim Impact Statements as Cultural Pedagogy	267	(8)
Lisa Langstraat
31 Rhetorically Contained: The Construction and Incorporation of Difference in Will & Grace	275	(6)
Danielle M. Mitchell
32 When Agonism Is Agony: Thomas Sloane, Controversia, and Political Discourse	281	(6)
Patricia Roberts-Miller
33 Humanism and Cold War Rhetoric: The Ambiguous Rhetorical Legacy of Niels Bohr	287	(16)
Lisa Storm Villadsen
VI Gender
34 The Persuasion of Esther: A Nun's Model of Silent, Seductive, Violent Rhetoric	303	(6)
Julie A. Bokser
35 Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-Century American Clubwomen: Parallels of Feminist Rhetorics, Civic Reform, and Spiritual Agendas	309	(8)
Beth Burmester
36 "Feeling" Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	317	(8)
Jami Carlacio
37 Using the Needle as a Sword: Needlework as Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union	325	(10)
Sue Carter
38 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
39 The Perfected Mother: Listening, Ethos, and Identification in Cases of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome	345	(6)
Julie Jung
40 Margaret Fell and the Problem of Women's Ethos
Christine Mason Sutherland	351	(6)
Author Index	357	(8)
Subject Index	365
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Preface	vii
About the Authors	xi
PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
1 Practical Contexts and Theoretical Frameworks for Teaching Complexity with Digital Role-Play Simulations	3	(26)
Kent Portney and Steve Cohen
2 A Model for Teaching with Digital Role-Play Simulations	29	(18)
Dean Rehberger
3 The Curricular Role for Understanding Social Decisions	47	(20)
Steve Cohen
PART II SIMULATIONS IN USE AND IN PROGRESS
4 PsychExperiments: A Web-Based Resource for Enhancing Science Training Through Simulation	67	(22)
Ken O. McGraw and John E. Williams
5 Teaching About Criminal Sentencing Decisions: The Crime and Punishment Simulations	89	(26)
Kent E. Portney, Steve Cohen, Jerry Goldman, and Sandy Simpson
6 The Poetics of Simulation: An Analysis of Programs in Ethics and Conflict Resolution	115	(22)
Robert Cavalier
7 Virtual Sex: Creating Environments for Reducing Risky Sex	137	(24)
Lynn Carol Miller and Stephen John Read
8 The ICONS Suite of Negotiation Simulations	161	(44)
Victor Asal
9 Disaster Control: A Simulation for Learning the Skills of Emergency Management	205	(24)
John O'Looney and Melissa P. Dodd
10 Immersive Virtual Environments and Education Simulations	229	(26)
James Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson
11 Current and Future Trends in Digital Role-Play Simulations	255	(18)
Carolyn Thorsen
Author Index	273	(8)
Subject Index	281