Professing Rhetoric : Selected Papers From the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference

Representing current theory and research in rhetoric, this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical, critical, historical, and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work that has previously been silenced or unrecognized, including Native American, African American, Latino, and women's rhetorics. Others explore rhetoric's relationship to performance and to the body, or to revising canons, stases, topoi, and pisteis. Still others are reworking the rhetorical lexicon to comprise contemporary theory. Among these diverse interests, rhetoricians find common themes and share intellectual and pedagogical enterprises that hold them together even as their institutional situations keep them apart. Topics discussed in this collection include: \*Rhetoric as figurality; comparative and contrastive rhetorics; rhetoric and gender; and rhetorics of science and technology; \*Rhetoric and reconceptions of the public sphere; rhetoric and public memory; and rhetorics of globalization and social change, including issues of race, ethnicity, and nationalism; \*Rhetoric's institutionalized place in the academy, in relation to other humanities and to the interpretive social sciences; and \*The place of rhetoric in the formation of departments and the development of pedagogy With its origins in the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference, this volume represents the range and vitality of current scholarship in rhetoric. The conversations contained herein indicate that professing rhetoric is, at the turn of the millennium, an intellectual activity that engages with and helps formulate the most important public and scholarly questions of today. As such, it will be engaging reading for scholars and students, and is certain to provoke further thought, discussion, and exploration. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 10 Rhetoric as a Vocation: A Weberian Meditation......Page 20 The Politics of Professing Rhetoric in the History of Composition and Communication......Page 32 Sleeping with the Enemy: Recoupling Rhetorical Studies and Rhetoric and Composition......Page 40 Toward Finding Common Critical and Pedagogical Ground......Page 48 Republican Rhetoric and Subversity: Speaking for White Women and American Indians in the 1820s......Page 56 Rhetorical Education for Political Action: The League of Women Voters and the Subversion of Political Parties in the 1920s......Page 64 Frederick Douglass, Between Speech and Print......Page 72 When the 'Past Is Not Even the Past': The Rhetoric of a Southern Historical Marker......Page 82 Kairos and the Rhetorical Place......Page 88 Rhetoric and the Body: A Lesson from Ancient Elocutionists......Page 96 Live from the Operating Room: A Generic Visual Rhetoric......Page 106 Policing the Architectural Canon: The Gendered Discourse of Architectural Studies......Page 116 Anonymity, Pseudonymity, and Collective Authorship: Rethinking Ethos and the Politics of Disclosure......Page 126 Mediated Ethos: Instructor Credibility in a Televised Writing Course......Page 138 The Essay Matters because the Essayist Matters: Personal Disclosures and the Enactment of Ethos in Essays by Black Feminist Writers......Page 146 Apologizing for Authority: The Rhetoric of the Prefaces of Eliza Cook, Isabelle Bird, and Hannah More......Page 154 Romantic Heroism and "Public Character": Ethical Criticism of Performative Traditions in Public Discourse......Page 162 Paranarrative and the Performance of Creative Nonfiction......Page 170 Preparing Ethical Citizens for the Twenty-First Century......Page 178 Rhetoric and Ethics: Is "How Should We Proceed?" the Wrong Question?......Page 186 Public Schools, Private Ethics: Rhetoric of Service in Composition......Page 194 The Rhetoric of Globalization, Graduate Student Labor, and Practices of Resistance......Page 202 Rereading the Literacy Crisis of American Colleges and Universities......Page 210 Sophistic Masks and Rhetorical Nomads......Page 216 Paideia versus Techne: Isocrates's Performative Conception of Rhetorical Education......Page 222 Thoroughly Modern Vico: The New Science and Counter-Enlightenment Politics......Page 230 Rhetoric of Science as Non-Modern Practice......Page 238 Ending the War between Science and Religion: Can Rhetorology Do the Job?......Page 246 The Open Question of the Conversation Between Science and Religion: A Response to Wayne Booth's Rhetorology......Page 258 B......Page 264 G......Page 265 L......Page 266 R......Page 267 W......Page 268 Z......Page 269 A......Page 270 C......Page 271 D......Page 272 F......Page 273 H......Page 274 L......Page 275 N......Page 276 P......Page 277 R......Page 278 S......Page 279 U......Page 280 Y......Page 281 This volume represents theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and should be of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines