Silence and listening as rhetorical arts / edited by Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aspasia's Purloined letters: historical absence, fictional presence, and the rhetoric of silence / Melissa Ianetta -- Out of "wonderful silence" come "sweet words": the rhetorical authority of St. Catherine of Siena / Kristie S. Fleckenstein -- Purposeful silence and perceptive listening: rhetorical agency for women in Christine de Pizan's The treasure of the city of Ladies / Nancy Myers -- Trying silence: the case of Denmark Vesey and the history of African American rhetoric / Shevaun E. Watson -- Living pictures, living memory : women's rhetorical silence with the American Delsarte moment / Lisa Suter -- Silence : a politics / Kennan Ferguson -- "Down a road and into an awful silence": graphic listening in Joe Sacco's comics journalism / Andrea A. Lunsford and Adam Rosenblatt -- The ideology of African philosophy: the silences and possibilities of African rhetorical knowledge / Omedi Ochieng -- Finding democracy in our argument culture : listening to Spike Lee's Jazz funeral on the levees / Joyce Irene Middleton -- Gesturing toward peace: on silence, the society of the spectacle, and the "women in black" antiwar protests / Ashley Elliott Pryor -- Hearing women's silence in transitional South Africa: Achmat Dangor's Bitter fruit / Katherine Mack -- With our ears to the ground: compassionate listening in Israel/Palestine /Joy Arbor -- Repertoire of discernments: hearing the unsaid in oral history narratives / Frank Farmer and Margaret M. Strain -- Cultivating listening: teaching from a restored logos / Shari Stenberg -- Making ourselves vulnerable a : feminist pedagogy of listening / Wendy Walters Hinshaw -- Revaluing silence and listening with second-language English users / Jay Jordan -- Student silences in the deep south: hearing unfamiliar dialects / Suellyn Duffey.