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Voices in the wilderness : public discourse and the paradox of Puritan rhetoric / Patricia Roberts-Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puritan movements--United States.
- Puritan movements.
- Language and culture--United States.
- Language and culture.
- English language--New England--Rhetoric.
- English language.
- Puritans--New England--Intellectual life.
- Puritans.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
- Rhetoric.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--New England--History.
- English language--New England--Discourse analysis.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
- American prose literature--Puritan authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work of composition theory, rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original perspective on the current debate over public discourse<DI
- Contents:
- Preface
- Ghost in the sphere
- The ontic logos, predestination, and aims of probability
- The place of the opposition
- Sugaring of rhetoric
- Prophets in a howling wilderness
- Arguments with voices in the wilderness
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-204) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8758-7
- 0-585-26370-1
- OCLC:
- 45728297
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