Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy: Selected Papers from the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of AmericaThis volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative literature, and film and media studies. Exploring the historical relationships and changing relationships between rhetoric, cultural studies, and literacy in the United States, this text seeks answers to such questions as what constitutes "literacy" in a post-modern, high-tech, multi-cultural society? |
Contents
Intellectuals and the Place | 21 |
An Overview of | 29 |
Toward an Ethos | 31 |
The Palimpsest of Her Thoughts | 35 |
Blair and Ossian | 45 |
Composing the Gentleman Writer in America | 53 |
Orwell Russell and the Language of Imperialism | 63 |
Gadamers | 71 |
Expressivism Pleasure and the Magical Medicine of Gorgias | 119 |
A Battle of Locution or Rhetoric? | 127 |
Reform in the Teaching | 137 |
The Rhetoric of Writing Requirements | 153 |
From Modernist Theory | 161 |
How We Represent Students | 169 |
Scholarship Promotion and Tenure in Composition Studies | 177 |
About the Contributors | 185 |
Burke Contra Jameson on Ideological Criticism or How to Read | 79 |
The Supreme Courts | 89 |
Expressive Rhetoric a Genealogy of Ideas and a Case for | 99 |
Another Suppressed | 109 |
Author Index | 191 |
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