Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges /

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Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that "no rhetoric--not Plato's or Aristotle's or Quintilian's or Perelman's--is permanent." At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berlin, James A.
Otros Autores: Stewart, Donald C. (Donald Charles), 1930-1992 (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
Education, Higher.
Academic writing > Study and teaching.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Écriture savante > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Enseignement superieur > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Anglais (Langue) > Rhetorique > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century.
Academic writing > Study and teaching > United States > History > 19th century.
English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The method and the major theories ; The three rhetorics
  • The demise of the classical tradition
  • The triumph of eighteenth-century rhetoric ; Campbell
  • Blair
  • Whately
  • Pedagogy
  • The social setting
  • American imitators
  • Emerson and Romantic rhetoric
  • Current-traditional rhetoric ; The scientistic approach ; Invention
  • Arrangement
  • Style
  • The consequences
  • An alternative voice : Fred Newton Scott
  • Postscript on the present.

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