The Practice of Rhetoric: Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

329 Pages·2022·17.078 MB·English

by  Debra Hawhee (editor), Vessela Valiavitcharska (editor)

The Practice of Rhetoric
Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
Series Editor
John Louis Lucaites
Editorial Board
Jeffrey A. Bennett
Carole Blair
Joshua Gunn
Robert Hariman
Debra Hawhee
Claire Sisco King
Steven Mailloux
Raymie E. McKerrow
Toby Miller
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Austin Sarat
Janet Staiger
Barbie Zelizer
The Practice of
Rhetoric
9 Poetics, Performance, Philosophy 0
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Walker
Edited by
Debra Hawhee and Vessela Valiavitcharska
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Rhetoric’s Practices
Debra Hawhee 1
9 Part I. Poetics 0
1. The World- Building Power of Ekphrasis
Susan C. Jarratt 11
2. Prose before Prosa: A Brief Exposé
Michele Kennerly 29
3. Dear Mice:
Debra Hawhee 49
4. Exploring the Performed Argument: Teaching Poetry Rhetorically
Glen McClish 67
9 Part II. Performance 0
5. Reading Poetry, Performing Rhetoric: The Place of Poetic
Performance in Byzantine Rhetorical Education
Vessela Valiavitcharska 93
6. Performing History, or, Imitation with a Difference: Examples
from the Alexiad
Ellen Quandahl 114
7. A Small Communicability
Dale Martin Smith 129
contents
9 Part III. Philosophies of Argumentation 0
8. The Stases—Then and Now
Jeanne Fahnestock and Marie Secor 157
9. John Locke and the Paradox of Tolerant Disputation
Mark Garrett Longaker 178
10. Rational Rhetoric: Using Tibetan Debate to Teach Persuasive Writing
Cleve Wiese 201
Conclusion: Practice’s Questions
Vessela Valiavitcharska 227
Notes 231
Bibliography 277
List of Contributors 301
Index 303
vi
Figures
5.1. Venetus A, fol. 18v, Iliad 1.327–53 106
5.2. Venetus A, fol. 18v, Iliad 1.334–35, main text (detail) 107
5.3. Venetus A, fol. 18v, Iliad 1.334–35, Nicanor’s scholion (detail) 107
5.4. Venetus A, fol. 19v, Iliad 1.393, with Nicanor’s remark in the left
margin 107
5.5. Genevensis 44, p. 295, Iliad 7.171, with scholia by Theodore
Meliteniotes 108
7.1. Harmony Holiday, “Adultery” 145
7.2. Harmony Holiday, “Martin Luther King . . . at Communist Training
School” 146

Acknowledgments
Jeffrey Walker, this book’s raison d’être, directed both of our dissertations. He
mentored us both well beyond graduate school with equal attention to kind-
ness and scholarly rigor. We hope that he feels our gratitude, as well as the
friendship and enthusiasm of each contributor, with every page.
Thank you to the volume’s contributors, brilliant scholars and amaz-
ing humans, every one of them. They have been patient, kind, and cheerful
throughout the editing, revising, and publication stages.
Abigail Fourspring and Megan Covone both provided valuable assis-
tance with citations and formatting.
Thank you to Dan Waterman, editor extraordinaire, whose encourag-
ing enthusiasm and understanding of rhetoric buoyed us. The manuscript’s
anonymous readers helped strengthen each essay and the volume as a whole.
Publication of The Practice of Rhetoric is supported in part by the Mc-
Courtney Professorship in Civic Deliberation.
Debra Hawhee and Vessela Valiavitcharska