The Rhetorical tradition and modern writing
By: edited by James J. Murphy.
Contributors: Murphy, James Jerome.
Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Rhetoric -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.  Rhetorical history as a guide to the salvation of American reading and writing / James J. Murphy -- Remarks on composition to the Yale English Department / E.D. Hirsch, Jr. -- Restoring the humanities / James Kinneavy -- The Phaedrus idyll as ethical play / Virginia N. Steinhoff -- Classical practice and contemporary basics / Susan Miller -- Ciceronian rhetoric and the rise of science / S. Michael Halloran and Merrill D. Whitburn -- John Locke's contributions to rhetoric / Edward P.J. Corbett -- Rhetoric in the liberal arts / Winifred Bryan Horner -- Nineteenth-century psychology and the shaping of Alexander Bain's English composition and rhetoric / Gerald P. Mulderig -- Three nineteenth-century rhetoricians / Nan Johnson -- Two model teachers and the Harvardization of English departments / Donald C. Stewart -- Concepts of art and the teaching of writing / Richard E. Young.

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