Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual

396 Pages·2005·2.13 MB·English

by  Patricia Bizzell

Rhetorical Agendas
Political, Ethical, Spiritual
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Rhetorical Agendas
Political, Ethical, Spiritual
Edited by
Patricia Bizzell
College of the Holy Cross
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
RhetoricSocietyofAmerica.Conference(11th:2004:Austin,Tex.)
Rhetoricalagendas:political,ethical,spiritual/editedbyPatricia
Bizzell.
p. cm.
Proceedingsofthe11thbiennialConferenceoftheRhetoricSocietyof
America, held May 28-31, 2004, Austin, Texas.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-5310-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8058-5311-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Rhetoric—Congresses. I.Bizzell, Patricia. II. Title.
PN171.6.R54 2004
808—dc22 2004065023
CIP
ISBN 1-4106-1568-5 Master e-book ISBN
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Contributors xiii
I Rhetorical Agendas
1 RhetoricsFast and Slow 3
Lester L.Faigley
2 Moral Vernaculars andRhetoricsof Conscience 11
Gerard A.Hauser
3 RudolphAgricola’sContribution to Rhetorical Theory 25
Peter Mack
4 Responsible Citizenship:Ethos, Action and the Voices 41
of African American Women
Jacqueline JonesRoyster
II History
5 The Centrality of Ethos in Eighteenth-Century Methodist 59
Preaching
Lois Agnew
6 BetweenIconophiliaandIconophobia: Milton’sAreopagitica 69
and Seventeenth-Century Visual Culture
KristieS.Fleckenstein
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7 Vico’sInstitutionesOratoriae:Acumen, Memory, 77
and the Imaginative Universals
CatalinaGonzález
8 The Spiritual and Secular Rhetoric of Happiness in Joseph 87
Smith and John Stuart Mill
David Gore
9 Nooses and Neck Verses: The Life and Death Consequences 97
of Literacy Testing
Connie Kendall
10 Campbell’s View of Argument as Comparison Advances 109
His Religious Agenda
BethInnocentiManolescu
III Theory
11 Aristotle, Kenneth Burke, and the Transubstantiation of Place 117
JerryBlitefield
12 Private Commitments and Public Rhetoric: Implications 123
for Ethical Practice
Barbara Couture
13 Reading Talmud:Levinasand the Possibility of Rhetoric 131
Richard R.Glejzer
14 Rhetoric and Political Economy at the Aesthetic Nexus: 137
A Study of ArchbishopWhately
G. Thomas Goodnight and David B.Hingstman
15 White Space as Rhetorical Space: Usability and Image 145
in Electronic Texts
JoddyMurray
16 On a RhetoricalTechneof the Moral-Emotions 151
EllenQuandahl
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17 Language’s Duality and the Rhetorical Problem of Music 157
ThomasRickert
18 The Scientific Media Hoax: A Rhetoric for Reconciling 165
Linguistics and Literary Criticism
Lynda Walsh
IV Pedagogy
19 Serving Academic Capitalism: The Cultural Function 179
of Community-Based Partnerships
DanikaM. Brown
20 Progymnasmata, Then and Now 185
ChristyDesmet
21 The Traditional Made New:Jasinski’sSourcebookon Rhetoric 193
David Henry
22 Electronic Versions of Collaborative Pedagogy: A Brief Survey 199
Mara Holt and AlbertRouzie
23 ReclaimingHybridity: How One Filipino American 205
CounterpublicHybridizes Academic Discourse
TereseGuinsataoMonberg
24 Public Portals, Catholic Walls: Teacher Training 213
and the Liberal Arts at Two Western Massachusetts Colleges
for Women in the 1930s, the College of Our Lady of the Elms
and the State Teachers College at Westfield
Beth AnnRothermel
V Publics
25 Rhetorical Landscapes and Religious Identity 225
Gregory D. Clark
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26 TheDoxicon: Image, Strategy, and the Undoing of Consent 233
Dana L. Cloud
27 Representing Byron de laBeckwithin Film and Journalism: 243
Popular Memories of Mississippi and the Murder
ofMedgarEvers
KristenE.Hoerl
28 The Political Unconscious of Rhetoric: The Case 251
of the Master-Planned Community
Thomas J. Kinney
29 Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction Here? Violence, Blowback 261
and the Rhetorical Agenda ofWMDs
Kevin DouglasKuswa
30 Emotion and CommunityRhetorics: Victim Impact Statements 267
as Cultural Pedagogy
LisaLangstraat
31 Rhetorically Contained: The Construction and Incorporation 275
of Difference inWill & Grace
Danielle M. Mitchell
32 WhenAgonismIs Agony: Thomas Sloane,Controversia, 281
and Political Discourse
Patricia Roberts-Miller
33 Humanism and Cold War Rhetoric: The Ambiguous 287
Rhetorical Legacy ofNielsBohr
Lisa StormVilladsen
VI Gender
34 The Persuasion of Esther: A Nun’s Model of Silent, Seductive, 303
Violent Rhetoric
Julie A.Bokser
35 Classical Rhetoric and Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican 309
Clubwomen: Parallels of FeministRhetorics, Civic Reform,
and Spiritual Agendas
BethBurmester
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36 “Feeling” Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet 317
Jacobs’Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
JamiCarlacio
37 Using the Needle as a Sword: Needlework asEpideicticRhetoric 325
in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Sue Carter
38 Beyond Opposition:ReconceptualizingSocial Movements 335
Through the Spiritual and ImaginativeRhetoricsofThis
Bridge Called My Backandthis bridge we call home
ChristaJean Downer
39 The Perfected Mother: Listening, Ethos, and Identification 345
in Cases ofMunchausenby Proxy Syndrome
Julie Jung
40 Margaret Fell and the Problem of Women’s Ethos 351
Christine Mason Sutherland
Author Index 357
Subject Index 365