Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy: Selected Papers from the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative literature, and film and media studies. Exploring the historical relationships and changing relationships between rhetoric, cultural studies, and literacy in the United States, this text...
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This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative literature, and film and media studies. Exploring the historical relationships and changing relationships between rhetoric, cultural studies, and literacy in the United States, this text seeks answers to such questions as what constitutes "literacy" in a post-modern, high-tech, multi-cultural society?
Preface1Keynote Address: Epideictic, Ethos, and Educators12Keynote Address: Biting the Hand That Feeds Us: Nineteenth-Century Uses of a Pedagogy of Taste113Kneupper Memorial Address: Intellectuals and the Place of Cultural Critique214Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy: An Overview of the 1994 Rhetoric Society of America Meeting295Rereading Aspasia: The Palimpsest of Her Thoughts356Primitives and Pretenders: Blair and Ossian457Composing the Gentleman Writer in America538Orwell, Russell, and the Language of Imperialism639"Truth" as Experience and "Method" as Dialectic: Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Literacy7110Burke Contra Jameson on Ideological Criticism; or How to Read Patricia Hampl Reading Whitman During the Vietnam War7911Judicial Constructions of Difference: The Supreme Court's Majority Opinions in Scott v. Sandford and Bowers v. Hardwick8912Expressive Rhetoric, a Genealogy of Ideas, and a Case for the British Romantics9913The Kabbalah as a Theory of Rhetoric: Another Suppressed Epistemology10914Expressivism, Pleasure, and the Magical Medicine of Gorgias11915Individualism or Personhood: A Battle of Locution or Rhetoric?12716Private Voices and Public Acts: Reform in the Teaching of Literacy13717A Rhetoric of "Cultural Negotiation": Toward an Ethos of Empowerment for African-American Women Graduate Students14518The Rhetoric of Writing Requirements15319Resisting and Revising Culture: From Modernist Theory to Postmodernist Pedagogy16120Literacy Among Undergraduates: How We Represent Students as Writers and What It Means When We Don't16921Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies177About the Contributors185Author Index191Subject Index197
