| Description |
xvi, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- "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, Susan Frisbie -- Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak -- Afterword / Wendy B. Sharer and Margaret M. Lyday. |
| Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States.
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English language -- United States -- Rhetoric.
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Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Lyday, Margaret, 1946-
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Sharer, Wendy B.
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| ISBN |
0817314245 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780817314248 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2116405 |
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NZ1 8350886 |
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AU@ 000025400999 |
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