Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

ISBN 10: 0805841369 / ISBN 13: 9780805841367

Published by Routledge, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805841369
• ISBN 13: 9780805841367
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

Representing current theory and research in rhetoric, this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical, critical, historical, and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work that has previously been silenced or unrecognized, including Native American, African American, Latino, and women's rhetorics. Others explore rhetoric's relationship to performance and to the body, or to revising canons, stases, topoi, and pisteis. Still others are reworking the rhetorical lexicon to comprise contemporary theory. Among these diverse interests, rhetoricians find common themes and share intellectual and pedagogical enterprises that hold them together even as their institutional situations keep them apart.

Topics discussed in this collection include:
*Rhetoric as figurality; comparative and contrastive rhetorics; rhetoric and gender; and rhetorics of science and technology;
*Rhetoric and reconceptions of the public sphere; rhetoric and public memory; and rhetorics of globalization and social change, including issues of race, ethnicity, and nationalism;
*Rhetoric's institutionalized place in the academy, in relation to other humanities and to the interpretive social sciences; and
*The place of rhetoric in the formation of departments and the development of pedagogy

With its origins in the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference, this volume represents the range and vitality of current scholarship in rhetoric. The conversations contained herein indicate that professing rhetoric is, at the turn of the millennium, an intellectual activity that engages with and helps formulate the most important public and scholarly questions of today. As such, it will be engaging reading for scholars and students, and is certain to provoke further thought, discussion, and exploration.

About the Author

Edited by Antczak, Frederick J.; Coggins, Cinda; Klinger, Geoffrey D.