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Rhetorical education in America /

A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field--on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction. From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic action and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glenn, Cheryl
Otros Autores: Lyday, Margaret M. (Margaret Mary), 1946- (Editor ), Sharer, Wendy B. (Editor ), Clark, Gregory, Denman, William N., Johnson, Nan, Booth, Sherry, Miller, Thomas P., Glenn, Cheryl Jean, Frisbie, Susan, Gurak, Laura J., Halloran, S. Michael, Kates, Susan, Lane, Rich, Logan, Shirley Wilson, Swiencicki, Jill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2012, ©2004]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Rhetorical education in America (a broad stroke introduction) / Cheryl Glenn
  • Part I: The implications of rhetorical education ; Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman
  • Lest we go the way of the classics : toward a rhetorical future for English departments / Thomas P. Miller
  • "To get an education and teach my people" : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan
  • Part II: Rhetorical education in diverse classrooms ; Sew it seams : (a)mending civic rhetorics for our classrooms and for rhetorical history / Jill Swiencicki
  • Politics, identity, and the language of Appalachia : James Watt Raine on "Mountain Speech and Song" / Susan Kates
  • A "forgotten" location : a rhetorical curriculum in English education / Rich Lane
  • Part III: Rhetorical education beyond the classroom ; Parlor rhetoric and the performance of gender in postbellum America / Nan Johnson
  • Writing history on the landscape : the tour road at the Saratoga battlefield as text / S. Michael Halloran
  • Transcendence at Yellowstone : educating a public in an uninhabitable place / Gregory Clark
  • Part IV: Rhetorical education : back to the future ; (Re)turning to Aristotle : metaphor and the rhetorical education of students / Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie
  • Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak
  • Afterword / Wendy B. Sharer and Margaret M. Lyday.