Rhetorical education in America /

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Author / Creator:Glenn, Cheryl.
Imprint:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
Description:xvi, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5528577
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Other authors / contributors:Lyday, Margaret, 1946-
Sharer, Wendy B.
ISBN:0817314245 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetorical Education in America (A Broad Stroke Introduction)
  • Part I. The Implications of Rhetorical Education
  • 1. Rhetoric, the "Citizen-Orator," and the Revitalization of Civic Discourse in American Life
  • 2. Lest We Go the Way of the Classics: Toward a Rhetorical Future for English Departments
  • 3. "To Get an Education and Teach My People": Rhetoric for Social Change
  • Part II. Rhetorical Education in Diverse Classrooms
  • 4. Sew It Seams: (A)mending Civic Rhetorics for Our Classrooms and for Rhetorical History
  • 5. Politics, Identity, and the Language of Appalachia: James Watt Raine on "Mountain Speech and Song"
  • 6. A "Forgotten" Location: A Rhetorical Curriculum in English Education
  • Part III. Rhetorical Education Beyond the Classroom
  • 7. Parlor Rhetoric and the Performance of Gender in Postbellum America
  • 8. Writing History on the Landscape: The Tour Road at the Saratoga Battlefield as Text
  • 9. Transcendence at Yellowstone: Educating a Public in an Uninhabitable Place
  • Part IV. Rhetorical Education: Back to the Future
  • 10. (Re)Turning to Aristotle: Metaphor and the Rhetorical Education of Students
  • 11. Cyberliteracy: Toward a New Rhetorical Consciousness
  • Afterword
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index