Overview

In the past 25 years, English has come under attack from various angles: from other subjects fighting for space on the school or college timetable, from critics who see it as too literary based; from those in cultural studies who see it as based on a narrow canon of texts, and from those who see it as unnecessarily excluding media or other oral texts. Rebirth of Rhetoric brings together contributions from several fields to provide a forum in which a unifying theory for language and literature studies can be debated. Rhetoric seems well equipped with the necessary breadth, history and versatility to fulfill that role. Rhetoric is used here in its widest sense of the arts of discourse. The book does not aim to resurrect classical or Renaissance rhetoric, but to remake it within a contemporary context. The context of texts (both spoken and written) is one of the main emphases of this collection, whether it is the ideology informing the text, or the way in which a text is transformed by its audience.

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Author:   Richard Andrews
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415062619

ISBN 10:   0415062616
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   08 October 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1.Introduction Richard Andrews 2.Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric: Narrative as Rhetoric's Fourth Mode Douglas D.Hesse 3.Persuasive Forces: Language, Ideology and Education Ian Frowe 4.Rhetoric in the University Evelyne d'Auzac 5.Voice/Text/Pedagogy: Re-Reading the Writing Classroom Pam Gilbert 6.Issues of Audience: Egocentrism Revisited Deborah P.Berrill 7.On Teaching Non-Fiction Carla Asher 8.Narrative, Argument and Rhetoric Richard Andrews 9.Intertext or Inner Text: How Children Learn to Read and Talk Together James McGonigal 10.A Rhetoric of Reading James E. Seltz 11. Shakespeare's Rhetoric in Action Rex Gibson 12.Reading Across Media: the Case of Wuthering Heights Patsy Stoneman 13.Weathertexts on Spanish, French and English Language Television Jerry Booth 14.The Power of a Dress: the Rhetoric of a Moment in Fashion Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke.

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