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  • Tony Wilmot Memorial Library

The responsibilities of rhetoric /

Smith Michelle

The responsibilities of rhetoric / Michelle Smith, Barbara Warnick. - Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2010. - ix, 371 p. : ill., maps ;

Papers presented at the 13th biennial conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), held May 23-26, 2008 in Seattle, Wash.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Plenary address : reclaiming rhetoric's responsibilities / David Zarefsky -- Rousseau, rhetoric, and the promise of contractual politics / David Tell -- Rhetoric, virtue, and the necessity of invention / William Duffy -- "Licentia" in the seventeenth-century French pulpit / Claudia Carlos -- The functions of polemical discourse in the public sphere / Ruth Amossy -- Form is a feminist issue / Eve Wiederhold -- Knifing Orlan's mask : grotesque aesthetics as visceral resistance to commodification / Jane Munksgaard -- Audre Lorde's embodied invention / Lester C. Olson -- La Frontera y El Chamizal : liminality, territoriality, and visual discourse / Brian J. McNely -- Public deliberation and the rhetorical "real" : balancing accomplishment and complication in Republican-Democratic structures / Todd Kelshaw -- Changing the public face of Christian politics : the rhetoric of Sojourners / Barbara Little Liu -- The temporality and function of "ethical shifting" in discursive interaction / Edit this page : Wikipedia and the responsibilities of digital rhetorics / Aesthetics and rhetoric in The Oprah Winfrey Show / Textual and visual building blocks : agency and social responsibility in Christine de Pizan's "The city of ladies" / The constitutive rhetoric of Common Sense / Paternalistic rhetoric and the American people / Rustic experience and the rhetorical work of national park architecture / Eugenics, Nazism, and the sinister science of the Human Betterment Foundation / Synecdoche as figure of the Holocaust / The Arabs did not "just" translate Aristotle : Al-Farabi's logico-rhetorical theory / The cynic / Loyalty oaths and the letter of the law : rhetoric, resistance, and responsibility / Scholarship of engagement : both a new name for and a challenge to the work of rhetoric / Gender equity in the Rhetoric Society of America / I told u so : classical and contemporary ethos and the stabilization of self / Coming to terms with analogy : generativity and constraint in the work of Nagaoka, Gamow, and Freud / Textual machinery : authorial agency and bot-written texts in Wikipedia / The rhetoric of the graphic novel / The Earth Liberation Front's (ELF) failed diatribe of sacramental arson / "The future is ours," or is it? : the rise and fall of totalitarian rhetoric in Poland (and elsewhere) / Stephen R. Yarbrough -- James J. Brown, Jr. -- Kathleen Dixon -- Julia M. Smith -- David C. Hoffman -- Jay P. Childers -- Gregory Clark -- Kathleen A. Swift -- Richard Glejzer & Michael Bernard-Donals -- Maha Baddar -- Charles Johnson -- M. Karen Powers -- Richard C. Gebhardt -- Cheryl Geisler -- Nathaniel A. Rivers -- Joseph Little & Lisa Jane Kabasin -- Krista Kennedy -- Kathryn E. Dobson -- Mark Meister & Curt Gilstrap -- Cezar M. Ornatowski.

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