Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy

Contents: J.F. Reynolds, Preface. D.J. Ochs, Keynote Address:Epideictic, Ethos, and Educators. S. Crowley, Keynote Address:Biting the Hand that Feeds Us: Nineteenth-Century Uses of a Pedagogy of Taste. E. Schiappa, Kneupper Memorial Address:Intellectuals and the Place of Cultural Critique. R.L. McDonald, C.G. Russell, Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy: An Overview of the 1994 Rhetoric Society of America Meeting. Part I:Historical Studies.C. Glenn, Rereading Aspasia: The Palimpsest of Her Thoughts. J. Kimsey, Primitives and Pretenders: Blair and Ossian. D. Broaddus, Composing the Gentleman Writer in America. Part II:Practicing Theories of Reading and Writing.W.T. Ross, Orwell, Russell, and the Language of Imperialism. M. Grabar, "Truth" as Experience and "Method" as Dialectic: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Literacy. D.W. Smit, Burke Contra Jameson on Ideological Criticism; or How to Read Patricia Hampl Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War. G. Conway, Judicial Constructions of Difference: The Supreme Court's Majority Opinions in Scott v. Sandford and Bowers v. Hardwick. Part III:Public/Private Voices. R.L. Veeder, Expressive Rhetoric, a Genealogy of Ideas, and a Case for the British Romantics. S.B. Katz, The Kabbalah as a Theory of Rhetoric: Another Suppressed Epistemology. T.R. Johnson, Expressivism, Pleasure, and the Magical Medicine of Gorgias. L. Mao, Individualism or Personhood: A Battle of Locution or Rhetoric? H. Roskelly, Private Voices and Public Acts: Reform in the Teaching of Literacy. J. Comfort, A Rhetoric of "Cultural Negotiation:" Toward an Ethos of Empowerment for African-American Women Graduate Students. Part IV:Institutional Concerns. R. Norgaard, The Rhetoric of Writing Requirements. K.L. Blair, Resisting and Revising Culture: From Modernist Theory to Postmodernist Pedagogy. J.N. Magnotto, Literacy Among Undergraduates: How We Represent Students as Writers and What It Means When We Don't. R.C. Gebhardt, Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies.