The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
Published on 28. January 2005
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Paperback/Softback
213 pages
978-0-7914-6286-7 (ISBN)
Description
Interrogates the story of rhetoric promoted in standard historical accounts and reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy.
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy. Continuing the line of questioning begun in the 1980s, contributors examine the duality of a rhetorical canon in determining if past practice can make us more (or less) able to address contemporary concerns. Also examined is the role of tradition as a limiting or inspiring force, rhetoric as a discipline, rhetoric's contribution to interest in civic education and citizenship, and the possibilities digital media offer to scholars of rhetoric.
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition reconsiders the relationship between rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy. Continuing the line of questioning begun in the 1980s, contributors examine the duality of a rhetorical canon in determining if past practice can make us more (or less) able to address contemporary concerns. Also examined is the role of tradition as a limiting or inspiring force, rhetoric as a discipline, rhetoric's contribution to interest in civic education and citizenship, and the possibilities digital media offer to scholars of rhetoric.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6286-7 (9780791462867)
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Richard Graff | Arthur E. Walzer | Janet M. Atwill
The Viability of the Rhetorical Tradition
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Persons
Richard Graff is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Arthur E. Walzer is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and the author of George Campbell: Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press. Janet M. Atwill is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and coeditor (with Janice M. Lauer) of Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Richard Graff
PART ONE: Definitions: Traditional and New
1. Revisionist Historiography and Rhetorical Tradition(s)
Richard Graff and Michael Leff
2. The Rhetorical Tradition
Alan G. Gross
3. The Ends of Rhetoric Revisited: Three Readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Leah Ceccarelli
4. De-Canonizing Ancient Rhetoric
Robert N. Gaines
5. Rhetoric and Civic Virtue
Janet M. Atwill
PART TWO: Possibilities: Contemporary Rhetorical Occasions and the Tradition(s)
6. A Human Measure: Ancient Rhetoric, Twenty-first-Century Loss
Susan C. Jarratt
7. Teaching "Political Wisdom": Isocrates and the Tradition of Dissoi Logoi
Arthur E. Walzer
8. On the Formation of Democratic Citizens: Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition in a Digital Age
William Hart-Davidson, James P. Zappen, and S. Michael Halloran
9. Civic Humanism, a Postmortem?
Thomas J. Kinney and Thomas P. Miller
10. Rhetoric in the Age of Cognitive Science
Jeanne Fahnestock
Afterword. Using Traditions: A Gadamerian Reflection on Canons, Contexts, and Rhetoric
Steven Mailloux
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Richard Graff
PART ONE: Definitions: Traditional and New
1. Revisionist Historiography and Rhetorical Tradition(s)
Richard Graff and Michael Leff
2. The Rhetorical Tradition
Alan G. Gross
3. The Ends of Rhetoric Revisited: Three Readings of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Leah Ceccarelli
4. De-Canonizing Ancient Rhetoric
Robert N. Gaines
5. Rhetoric and Civic Virtue
Janet M. Atwill
PART TWO: Possibilities: Contemporary Rhetorical Occasions and the Tradition(s)
6. A Human Measure: Ancient Rhetoric, Twenty-first-Century Loss
Susan C. Jarratt
7. Teaching "Political Wisdom": Isocrates and the Tradition of Dissoi Logoi
Arthur E. Walzer
8. On the Formation of Democratic Citizens: Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition in a Digital Age
William Hart-Davidson, James P. Zappen, and S. Michael Halloran
9. Civic Humanism, a Postmortem?
Thomas J. Kinney and Thomas P. Miller
10. Rhetoric in the Age of Cognitive Science
Jeanne Fahnestock
Afterword. Using Traditions: A Gadamerian Reflection on Canons, Contexts, and Rhetoric
Steven Mailloux
Contributors
Index