Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: A Reader

Abstract

Introduction / John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit -- Toward a sophistic definition of rhetoric / John Poulakos -- Status, marginality, and rhetorical theory / Robert Hariman -- Habitation of rhetoric / Michael Leff -- Text, context, and the fragmentation of contemporary culture / Michael Calvin McGee -- Practicing the arts of rhetoric: tradition and invention / Thomas Farrell -- Taming of Polos/Polis: rhetoric as an achievement without woman / Jane Sutton -- On viewing rhetoric as epistemic / Robert Scott. Knowledge, consensus, and rhetorical theory / Thomas Farrell -- Some implications of "process" or "intersubjectivity": postmodern rhetoric / Barry Brummett -- Rhetorical perpectivism / Richard A. Cherwitz and James W. Hikins -- Rhetoric and its double: reflections of the rhetorical turn in the human sciences / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Rhetorical situation / Lloyd F. Bitzer -- Myth of the rhetorical situation / Richard E. Vatz -- Rethinking the rhetoric situation from within the thematic of Differance / Barbara Biesecker. Personal, technical, and public sphere of argumentation: a speculative inquiry in the art of public deliberation / G. Thomas Goodnight -- Narrative as human communication paradigm / Walter Fisher -- Rhetorical conversation, time, and moral action / Thomas S. Frentz -- Crafting virtue: the rhetorical construction of public morality / Celeste Michelle Condit -- Second persona / Edwin Black -- In search of "the people": a rhetorical alternative / Michael Calvin McGee / Third persona: an ideological turn in rhetorical theory / Philip Wander. Requirements, problems, and strategies: a theory of persuasion for social movements / Herbert W. Simons -- Rhetoric of women's liberation: an oxymoron / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- Functions of presidential campaigning / Bruce Gronbeck -- "Ideograph": a link between rhetoric and ideology / Michael Calvin McGee -- Critical rhetoric: theory and praxis / Raymie E. McKerrow -- Rehabilitating rhetoric: confronting blindspots in discourse and social theory / Maurice Charland -- Burke's representative anecdote as a method in media criticism / Barry Brummett. Rhetorical limits of polysemy / Celeste Michelle Condit -- Reintegrating ideology and archetype in rhetorical criticism / Janice Hocker Rushing and Thomas S. Frentz -- Cultures of discourse: marxism and rhetorical theory / James Arnt Aune -- Afrocentric theory of communication / Molefi Kete Asante -- Disciplining the feminine / Carole Blair, Julie R. Brown, and Leslie A. Baxter -- Postcolonial interventions in the rhetorical canon: an "other" view / Raka Shome.