The responsibilities of rhetoric
By: Michelle Smith, Barbara Warnick
Contributors: Smith, Michelle (Michelle Christine); Warnick, Barbara, 1946-
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Long Grove, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781577666233
Subjects: Rhetoric; Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at the 13th biennial conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), held May 23-26, 2008 in Seattle, Wash.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Plenary address : reclaiming rhetoric's responsibilities / David Zarefsky; title: Rousseau, rhetoric, and the promise of contractual politics /  David Tell; title: Rhetoric, virtue, and the necessity of invention / William Duffy; title: "Licentia" in the seventeenth-century French pulpit /  Claudia Carlos; title: The functions of polemical discourse in the public sphere /  Ruth Amossy; title: Form is a feminist issue /  Eve Wiederhold; title: Knifing Orlan's mask : grotesque aesthetics as visceral resistance to commodification /  Jane Munksgaard; title: Audre Lorde's embodied invention /  Lester C. Olson; title: La Frontera y El Chamizal : liminality, territoriality, and visual discourse /  Brian J. McNely; title: Public deliberation and the rhetorical "real" : balancing accomplishment and complication in Republican-Democratic structures / Todd Kelshaw; title: Changing the public face of Christian politics : the rhetoric of Sojourners /  Barbara Little Liu; title: The temporality and function of "ethical shifting" in discursive interaction /; title: Stephen R. Yarbrough; title: Edit this page : Wikipedia and the responsibilities of digital rhetorics  -- James J. Brown, Jr.; title: Aesthetics and rhetoric in The Oprah Winfrey Show  -- Kathleen Dixon; title: Textual and visual building blocks : agency and social responsibility in Christine de Pizan's "The city of ladies"  -- Julia M. Smith; title: The constitutive rhetoric of Common Sense  -- David C. Hoffman; title: Paternalistic rhetoric and the American people  -- Jay P. Childers; title: Rustic experience and the rhetorical work of national park architecture  -- Gregory Clark; title: Eugenics, Nazism, and the sinister science of the Human Betterment Foundation  -- Kathleen A. Swift; title: Synecdoche as figure of the Holocaust  -- Richard Glejzer & Michael Bernard-Donals; title: The Arabs did not "just" translate Aristotle : Al-Farabi's logico-rhetorical theory  -- Maha Baddar; title: The cynic  -- Charles Johnson; title: Loyalty oaths and the letter of the law : rhetoric, resistance, and responsibility  -- M. Karen Powers; title: Scholarship of engagement : both a new name for and a challenge to the work of rhetoric  -- Richard C. Gebhardt; title: Gender equity in the Rhetoric Society of America  -- Cheryl Geisler; title: I told u so : classical and contemporary ethos and the stabilization of self  -- Nathaniel A. Rivers; title: Coming to terms with analogy : generativity and constraint in the work of Nagaoka, Gamow, and Freud  -- Joseph Little & Lisa Jane Kabasin; title: Textual machinery : authorial agency and bot-written texts in Wikipedia  -- Krista Kennedy; title: The rhetoric of the graphic novel  -- Kathryn E. Dobson; title: The Earth Liberation Front's (ELF) failed diatribe of sacramental arson  -- Mark Meister & Curt Gilstrap; title: "The future is ours," or is it? : the rise and fall of totalitarian rhetoric in Poland (and elsewhere) -- Cezar M. Ornatowski.