A Responsive Rhetorical Art : Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life / Elenore Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Elenore, author.

Series:

Composition, literacy, and culture.

Composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (xix, 292 pages).)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]

Summary:

A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action--the productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and deferred hope. Here, composition and literacy learning hold an important and distinctive cultural promise: the capacity to invent with other people new ways forward in light of their own interests and values and in the face of obstacles that could not have otherwise been predicted. Distributed across publicly situated strangers, including citizen-educators, this work engages a persistent challenge of early rhetorical uptake in public life: that what might become public and shared is often tacit and contested. The book's approach combines attention to local cases (with a transnational student organization, the Nipmuck Chaubunagungamaug, and the South Sudanese diaspora in Phoenix) with a revisable guide for taking up wise action and methods for uncovering elusive institutional logics.

Contents:

Introduction : enlivening early rhetorical uptake alongside others

part 1. Situating a responsive rhetorical art

Tensions and challenges inherent in the early uptake of public life

Defining a responsive rhetorical art

part 2. Actors taking up a responsive rhetorical art

A rhetorical approach to publicly responsive research methods

Community actors taking up a responsive rhetorical art

Supporting rhetoricity in the face of a stalled project

part 3. A responsive rhetorical art : why now?

Gambian American college activists conjure an alternative to aid-to-Africa discourse

Elenore Long, Nyillan Fye, and John Jarvis

Disciplinary arguments that test a responsive rhetorical art

part 4. Educators helping students and institutions support a responsive rhetorical art

Can we make inquiry professional? Responsive arts and the rhetorical education of future public workers

The Nipmuck Chaubunagungamaug people do exist : imagining the what next

an experimental alternative to evidentiary legal discourse / Elenore Long, John Jarvis, and D. Deerheart Shaughnessy

Untangling empowerment knots : tooling a responsive rhetoric / Elenore Long, Roda Nyapuot Kuek, and Jennifer Clifton

part 5. A practical guide

Enacting a responsive rhetorical art

Appendix 1. Phase 1 : Hillary's inquiry into institutional logics

Appendix 2. Sample what-if module for interns' website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822986447

0822986442

OCLC:

1057893693