Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy : The Living Art of Michael C. Leff / edited by Antonio de Velasco, John Angus Campbell and David Henry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leff, Michael C., honouree.

Henry, David R., 1947- editor.

Campbell, John Angus, editor.

Velasco, Antonio de, 1974- editor.

Series:

Rhetoric and public affairs series.

Rhetoric and public affairs series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, [Michigan] : Michigan State University Press, 2016.

Summary:

What distinguishes the study of rhetoric from other pursuits in the liberal arts? From what realms of human existence and expression, of human history, does such study draw its defining character? What, in the end, should be the purposes of rhetorical inquiry? And amid so many competing accounts of discourse, power, and judgment in the contemporary world, how might scholars achieve these purposes through the attitudes and strategies that animate their work? Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy: The Living Art of Michael C. Leff offers answers to these questions by introducing the central insights of one of the most innovative and prolific rhetoricians of the twentieth century, Michael C. Leff. This volume charts Leff 's decades-long development as a scholar, revealing both the variety of topics and the approach that marked his oeuvre, as well as his long-standing critique of the disciplinary assumptions of classical, Hellenistic, renaissance, modern, and postmodern rhetoric. Rethinking Rhetorical Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy includes a synoptic introduction to the evolution of Leff 's thought from his time as a graduate student in the late 1960s to his death in 2010, as well as specific commentary on twenty-four of his most illuminating essays and lectures.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Part 1. Greek and Latin Rhetorical Theory

Tradition and Agency in Humanistic Rhetoric

The Uses of Aristotle's Rhetoric in Contemporary American Scholarship

Genre and Paradigm in the Second Book of De Oratore

The Topics of Argumentative Invention in Latin Rhetorical Theory from Cicero to Boethius

Part 2. Contemporary Extensions of Classical Rhetorical Theory

Piety, Propriety, and Perspective: An Interpretation and Application of Key Terms in Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change (with Thomas Rosteck)

Topical Invention and Metaphoric Interaction

Up from Theory: Or I Fought the Topoi and the Topoi Won

The Habitation of Rhetoric

Decorum and Rhetorical Interpretation: The Latin Humanistic Tradition and Contemporary Critical Theory

In Search of Ariadne's Thread: A Review of the Recent Literature on Rhetorical Theory

Part 3. Theories of Criticism

Interpretation and the Art of the Rhetorical Critic

Textual Criticism: The Legacy of G. P. Mohrmann

Words Most like Things: Iconicity and the Rhetorical Text (with Andrew Sachs)

Things Made by Words: Reflections on Textual Criticism

Hermeneutical Rhetoric

Part 4. The Practice of Rhetorical Criticism

Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text (with G. P. Mohrmann)

Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rationale for Neo-Classical Criticism (with G. P. Mohrmann)

Instrumental and Constitutive Rhetoric in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Ebony A. Utley)

Lincoln among the Nineteenth-Century Orators

Part 5. Rhetorical Pedagogy

Teaching Public Speaking as Composition

Kenneth Burke in the Classroom

Theory and Practice in Undergraduate Education

Cultivating the Useless: Rhetoric and Liberal Arts Education in an Age of Consumerism

What Is Rhetoric?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-273-3

1-60917-500-X

OCLC:

953222847