| Description |
1 online resource (183 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Communication Series |
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Routledge communication series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Memory Issues in Composition Studies; 2 Reconfiguring Writing and Delivery in Secondary Orality; 3 Modern Rhetoric and Memory; 4 The Faculty of Memory; 5 Actio: A Rhetoric of Written Delivery; 6 The Ethics of Delivery; 7 Hypertext and theRhetorical Canons; 8 Oral Memory and the Teaching of Literacy: Some Implications from Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon; 9 Mass Memory: The Past in theAge of Television; 10 The Spoken and the Seen: Phonocentric andOcularcentric Dimensions of Rhetorical Discourse |
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11 A Special Afterword to Graduate Students in RhetoricAbout the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Why has classical rhetoric been a subject of such growing interest for the past ten years? Because the most exciting work in classical rhetoric has asked us to rethink classical concepts in modern terms. What's been missing, at least in book-length form, is a scholarly rethinking of rhetorical memory and delivery. As many scholars have been noting in their work for some time now, three of five classical issues -- invention, arrangement, and style -- have dominated rhetorical studies while the other two -- memory and delivery -- have largely been misunderstood or ignored. Re-examined in light o |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136690426 |
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1136690425 |
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