Trust in texts : a different history of rhetoric / Susan Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Susan, 1942-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 203 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2008]

Summary:

Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.

Contents:

Introduction: Rhetoric, Emotion, and Places of Persuasion 1

Rhetorics, Pedagogies, and Methods 1

Topics: Simultaneous and Consecutive 9

The Trouble with Emotion, and Rhetoric 12

Emotional Educations 21

The Trouble with Rhetoric, and Emotion 27

1 Decentering Rhetoric 33

Reviewing Rhetoric 35

Everyone Knows: Antique Characters 44

Everyone Knew: Rhetoric as Its Precedents 51

Poetry 55

Drama 58

Cures 61

Sophisticated Rhetoric 63

Divine Rhetoric 66

2 Trusting Texts 73

Trusting Printing 82

Trusting Rhetoric 86

"Sincerely, and Prudently, Yours" 94

3 The Mobility of Trust 106

Literature, "Literature," and Rhetorical Truths 111

Rhetorical Rhetoric and Literary Truth 118

The Communicative Essence of Language: Pure British Tongues 127

The Turn to Words 133

The Ends of Trust 139

Conclusion: Centering Rhetoric-The Psychology of Anxious Moments and Solemn Occasions 145

The Motive to Act 148

The Motivator 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780809327881

0809327880

OCLC:

122424504

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