A study of memory as a rhetorical canon, as a component of writing. It is crucial for those who write & teach writing to understand how completely memory governs the processes we undertake as we compose. Chapters include: memory, our muse; memory & the history of rhetoric; memory & psychology; memory & philosophy; the role of memory in literature & theory; memory, rhetoric, & the teaching of writing; & re/membering culture(s). Extensive references.
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