Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric: Selected Papers From the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference [Paperback]

The 1996 Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America commemorated the 25th anniversary of the publication of Lloyd Bitzer and Edwin Black's The Prospect of Rhetoric. In so doing, the conference gave scholars and teachers in various disciplines from all over the country the opportunity to talk about new prospects for rhetoric. The conferees were asked to present their vision of rhetoric studies or to demonstrate what rhetoric studies could be by example. Their essays, presented in this volume, illustrate a discipline at odds over the future and demonstrate the continued influence and vitality of other papers, on the same subject, published some 25 years ago.
Contents: T. Enos, Preface. R. Mountford, Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric. Part I:The Prospect of Rhetoric: Twenty-Five Years Later. L.F. Bitzer, Rhetoric's Prospects: Past and Future. E. Black, The Prospect of Rhetoric: Twenty-Five Years Later. C. Blair, We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device : Rhetoric in Speech Communication After Wingspread. P. Bizzell, The Prospect of Rhetorical Agency. M. Garrett, How Far We've Come; How Far We Have To Go. S. Mailloux, Rhetoric 2000: The New Prospects. Part II:Positions and Perspectives: Rhetoric, Community, and Social Action. H.W. Johnstone, Jr., Some Further Trends in Rhetorical Theory. L. Ceccarelli, The Ends of Rhetoric: Aesthetic, Political, Epistemic. J.F. Klumpp, The Rhetoric of Community at Century's End. C. Bazerman, Genre and Social Science: Renewing Hopes of Wingspread. D. Sebberson, Is the Prospect of Rhetoric Antirhetorical? Or Rhetoric's Critical Impulse. M. Cooper, A Femil£u