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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Glenn, Cheryl
Otros Autores: Sharer, Wendy B., Lyday, Margaret M. (Margaret Mary), 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman
  • Is the history of classics a model for the future of English departments? / Thomas P. Miller
  • To get an education and teach my people : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan
  • 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
  • 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
  • (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 Sharer and Margaret Lyday.