TY - BOOK AU - Smith Michelle AU - Smith,Michelle AU - Warnick,Barbara TI - The responsibilities of rhetoric SN - 9781577666233 AV - P301 .R47 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Long Grove, Ill. PB - Waveland Press KW - Rhetoric KW - Congresses KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - lcgft N1 - 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; Stephen R. Yarbrough --; Edit this page : Wikipedia and the responsibilities of digital rhetorics; James J. Brown, Jr. --; Aesthetics and rhetoric in The Oprah Winfrey Show; Kathleen Dixon --; Textual and visual building blocks : agency and social responsibility in Christine de Pizan's "The city of ladies"; Julia M. Smith --; The constitutive rhetoric of Common Sense; David C. Hoffman --; Paternalistic rhetoric and the American people; Jay P. Childers --; Rustic experience and the rhetorical work of national park architecture; Gregory Clark --; Eugenics, Nazism, and the sinister science of the Human Betterment Foundation; Kathleen A. Swift --; Synecdoche as figure of the Holocaust; Richard Glejzer & Michael Bernard-Donals --; The Arabs did not "just" translate Aristotle : Al-Farabi's logico-rhetorical theory; Maha Baddar --; The cynic; Charles Johnson --; Loyalty oaths and the letter of the law : rhetoric, resistance, and responsibility; M. Karen Powers --; Scholarship of engagement : both a new name for and a challenge to the work of rhetoric; Richard C. Gebhardt --; Gender equity in the Rhetoric Society of America; Cheryl Geisler --; I told u so : classical and contemporary ethos and the stabilization of self; Nathaniel A. Rivers --; Coming to terms with analogy : generativity and constraint in the work of Nagaoka, Gamow, and Freud; Joseph Little & Lisa Jane Kabasin --; Textual machinery : authorial agency and bot-written texts in Wikipedia; Krista Kennedy --; The rhetoric of the graphic novel; Kathryn E. Dobson --; The Earth Liberation Front's (ELF) failed diatribe of sacramental arson; Mark Meister & Curt Gilstrap --; "The future is ours," or is it? : the rise and fall of totalitarian rhetoric in Poland (and elsewhere); Cezar M. Ornatowski ER -