Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village

Contents: Preface. Introductions.C.J. Swearingen, Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village: Now and Then. S.W. Logan, Inclusive Rhetorics and Lost Voices. K.E. Campbell, Race and Rhetoric: An Unlikely Tandem? J.A. Mejia, Latina and Latino Rhetorical Issues. J. Lambiase, Redefining an 800-Pound Godzilla. C.G. Brooke, Cybercommunities and McLuhan: A Retrospect. G. Boswell, Seven Ways of Looking at Religion and Rhetoric. C. Glenn, Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Practices. Keynote Address.J.J. Royster, Sarah's Story: Making a Place for Historical Ethnography in Rhetorical Studies. Selections From the Charles Kneupper Memorial Lecture.G.A. Kennedy, Rhetoric and Culture/Rhetoric and Technology. Part I: Classical Roots.S. Smith, Pity and the Polis.B. McComiskey, The Global Village, Multiculturalism, and the Functions of Sophistic Rhetoric. E. Haskins, Orality, Literacy, and Isocrates' Political Aesthetics. M. Imber, Pudentilla's Anger: The Indirect Discourse of a Roman Matron. S. McKenna, Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric. Part II: Rhetorics of Culture/Recovering Rhetorical Cultures.L. Agnew, Unstifling the Rhetorical Impulse: Style and Invention in Thomas De Quincey's Rhetoric. J. Swiencicki, Performing Conversion: Washingtonian (In)Temperance Rhetorics. S. Aley, Brave New World: How Alexander Bain's Educational Reforms Addressed Student Needs During the Industrial Age. P.R. Powell, Facing the Audience: Reconsidering "Audience" Through the Chinese Concept of "Face." S.R. Lyons, The Incorporation of the Indian Body: Peyotism and the Pan-Indian Public, 1911-1923. J. Donawerth, Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, and the Creation of a Women's Tradition of Rhetoric. M.J. Fiesta, Reconstructing Home in Early Feminist Rhetorics: The Religious Discourses of Protestantism and Transcendentalism as Sites of Production for Sarah Grimke and Margaret Fuller. Part III: Rhetoric Tech: Defining Rhetorics in Modern Media and Electronic Discourses.S.G. North, Are the Barbarians of Technology Knocking at the Gate? Vico and Scientism in Twentieth-Century Culture. S.M. Halloran, G. Clark, It's a Great Place to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There: Virtual American Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. K.S. Fleckenstein, CyberEthos: Ethos as a Cybernetic System. S. Gill, And Now a Word About Our Sponsors: Advertising and Ethos in the Age of the Global Village. E. Cutler, Dialectic of Technology: Critical Affinities Between Kenneth Burke and the Frankfurt School. Part IV: Rhetorics of Ethics and Agency.A. Bilansky, Rhetoric, Democracy, and the Deliberative Horizon. D. Sweet, When Language Is Just Another Commodity: Enlightenment Theories, Erasure of Agency, and the End of the Political. D.C. Plotkin, Nourishing Equality, Converting Difference: Matthew Arnold and the Rhetoric of Popular Education. R. Norgaard, The Rhetoric of Civility and the Fate of Argument.