Description

Kuypers, King, and their contributors explore the conception of rhetoric of eleven key American rhetoricians through analyses of their life's work. Each chapter provides a sense of that scholar's conception of rhetoric, be it through criticism, theory, or teaching. The communication discipline often highlights the work of others outside the discipline; however, it rarely acclaims the work of its own critics, teachers, and theorists. In this collection, the essays explore the innate mode of perception that guided the rhetorical understanding of the early critics. In so doing, this work dispels the myth that the discipline of Speech Communication was spawned from a monolithic and rigid center that came to be called neo-Aristotelianism. Scholars and researchers involved with the history of rhetoric, rhetorical criticism and theory, and American public address uill find this title to be a necessary addition to their collection.

Table of Contents

Our Roots Are Strong and Deep by Andrew King and Jim A. Kuypers
Everett Lee Hunt and the Humanistic Spirit of Rhetoric by Theordore O. Windt
Henry Lee Ewbank, Sr.: Teacher of Teachers of Speech by Henry L. Ewbank, Jr.
Hoyt Hopewell Hudson's Nuclear Rhetoric by Jim A. Kuypers
Wilbur Samuel Howell's "Trilogy" of Trends in British Logic and Rhetoric by John E. Tapia
Marie Hochmuth Nichols: Voice of Rationality in the Humane Tradition of Rhetoric and Criticism by John H. Patton
Waldo Braden: The Critic as Outsider by Andrew King
Carroll C. Arnold: Rhetorical Criticism at the Intersection of Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy by Thomas W. Benson
Robert Gray Gunderson: The Historian as Civic Rhetorician by Kurt Ritter
Ernest G. Bormann: Roots, Revelations, and Results of Symbolic Convergence Theory by Moya Ann Ball
Edwin Black on the Powers of the Rhetorical Critic by Fred J. Kauffeld
Lloyd F. Bitzer: Rhetorical Situation, Public Knowledge, and Audience Dynamics by Marilyn J. Young
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Product details

Published 30 Mar 2001
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 328
ISBN 9780313002540
Imprint Praeger
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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