Silence and listening as rhetorical arts
By: edited by Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780809330171; 9780809386161
Subjects: Report writing; Rhetoric; Study and teaching; Listening; Study and teaching (Higher); Silence; English language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Aspasia's Purloined letters: historical absence, fictional presence, and the rhetoric of silence / Melissa Ianetta; title: Out of "wonderful silence" come "sweet words": the rhetorical authority of St. Catherine of Siena / Kristie S. Fleckenstein; title: Purposeful silence and perceptive listening: rhetorical agency for women in Christine de Pizan's The treasure of the city of Ladies / Nancy Myers; title: Trying silence: the case of Denmark Vesey and the history of African American rhetoric / Shevaun E. Watson; title: Living pictures, living memory : women's rhetorical silence with the American Delsarte moment / Lisa Suter; title: Silence : a politics / Kennan Ferguson; title: "Down a road and into an awful silence": graphic listening in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Andrea A. Lunsford and Adam Rosenblatt; title: The ideology of African philosophy: the silences and possibilities of African rhetorical knowledge / Omedi Ochieng; title: Finding democracy in our argument culture : listening to Spike Lee's Jazz funeral on the levees / Joyce Irene Middleton; title: Gesturing toward peace: on silence, the society of the spectacle, and the "women in black" antiwar protests / Ashley Elliott Pryor; title: Hearing women's silence in transitional South Africa: Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit / Katherine Mack; title: With our ears to the ground: compassionate listening in Israel/Palestine /Joy Arbor; title: Repertoire of discernments: hearing the unsaid in oral history narratives / Frank Farmer and Margaret M. Strain; title: Cultivating listening: teaching from a restored logos / Shari Stenberg; title: Making ourselves vulnerable a : feminist pedagogy of listening / Wendy Walters Hinshaw; title: Revaluing silence and listening with second-language English users / Jay Jordan; title: Student silences in the deep south: hearing unfamiliar dialects / Suellyn Duffey.