Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric

PROLOGUE: THE PROSPECT AS PROSPECTUS by Thomas O. Sloane

CHAPTER 1: KARL WALLACE: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE; A Response to Karl Wallace's "The Fundamentals of Rhetoric" by Stephen Howard Browne

CHAPTER 2: PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: EVENTAL RHETORIC; A Response to Samuel L. Becker's "Rhetorical Studies for the Contemporary World" by Barbara A. Biesecker

CHAPTER 3: REVISITING RICHARD MCKEON'S ARCHITECTONIC RHETORIC; A Response to Richard McKeon's "The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts" by David Depew

CHAPTER 4: OUR PREMATURE BURIAL; A Response to Lawrence W. Rosenfield's "An Autopsy of the Rhetorical Tradition" by Robert S. Iltis

CHAPTER 5: THE PROSPECTS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RHETORIC; A Response to Henry Johnstone's "Some Trends in Rhetorical Theory" by Steve Fuller

CHAPTER 6: A POLEMICAL EXCURSION THROUGH "THE SCOPE OF RHETORIC TODAY"; A Response to Wayne Booth's "The Scope of Rhetoric Today: A Polemical Excursion" by Paul Kameen

CHAPTER 7: CHAIM PERELMAN'S PROLEGOMENON TO A NEW RHETORIC: HOW SHOULD WE FEEL? A Response to Chaim Perelman's "The New Rhetoric" by Celeste Michelle Condit

CHAPTER 8: A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF RHETORIC: HUGH DUNCAN'S FORGOTTEN CORPUS; A Response to Hugh Dalziel Duncan's "The Need for Clarification in Social Models of Rhetoric" by Peter Simonson

CHAPTER 9: RHETORIC AND THE THIRD CULTURE: SCIENTISTS AND ARGUERS AND CRITICS; A Response to Wayne Brockriede's"Trends in the Study of Rhetoric: Towards a Blending of Criticism and Science" by John Lyne

CHAPTER 10: 'THE CULT OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY': CONTINUED QUERIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF OUR DISCOURSE(S); A Response to Barnet Baskerville's "Responses, Queries, and A Few Caveats" by Mark J. Porrovecchio

CHAPTER 11: READING THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: CHANGING DISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES IN RHETORICAL STUDIES; A Response to Edward P. J. Corbett's "Rhetoric in Search of a Past, Present, and Future" by Steven Mailloux

EPILOGUE: THE PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND THE PROSPECTS FOR RHETORIC by Herbert W. Simons