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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820445903321

Titolo

Reengaging The prospect(s) of rhetoric / / Mark J. Porrovecchio, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-16773-7

1-135-16774-5

1-282-57160-5

9786612571602

0-203-85845-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PorrovecchioMark J

Disciplina

808.001

Soggetti

Oral communication

Rhetoric - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Moving Things Forward; Contributors; Prologue: The Prospect as Prospectus; Chapter 1 Karl Wallace: Between Past and Future: A Response to Karl Wallace's "The Fundamentals of Rhetoric"; Chapter 2 Prospects of Rhetoric for the Twenty-First Century: Speculations on Evental Rhetoric Ending with a Note on Barack Obama and a Benediction by Jacques Lacan: A Response to Samuel L. Becker's "

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"Chapter 4 Our Premature Burial: A Response to Lawrence W. Rosenfield's "An Autopsy of the Rhetorical Tradition"; Chapter 5 The Prospects for Philosophical Rhetoric: A Response to Henry Johnstone's "Some Trends in Rhetorical Theory"; 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"

Chapter 7 Chaim Perelman's Prolegomenon to a New Rhetoric: How Should We Feel?: A Response to Chaim Perelman's "The New Rhetoric"Chapter 8 A Cultural Sociology of Rhetoric: Hugh Duncan's Forgotten



Corpus: A Response to Hugh Dalziel Duncan's "The Need for Clarifi cation in Social Models of Rhetoric"; 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"

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"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"; Epilogue: The Prospects of Rhetoric and the Prospects for Rhetoric; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume The Prospect of Rhetoric (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today. With contributions from today's leading rhetorical scholars, Reengaging tje Prospects of Rhetoric offers ""response"" essays to each chapter of the original work. Each scholar uses his/her essay as a forum in which to address three questions: As