Glenn, Cheryl.

Rhetorical education in America / Cheryl Glenn, Margaret Lyday, Wendy Sharer. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004. - xvi, 245 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-224) and index.

Rhetoric, the "citizen-orator," and the revitalization of civic discourse in American life / William N. Denman -- Is the history of classics a model for the future of English departments? / Thomas P. Miller -- To get an education and teach my people : rhetoric for social change / Shirley Wilson Logan -- Sew it seams : (a)mending civic rhetorics for our classrooms and for rhetorical history / Jill Swiencicki -- Politics, identity, and the language of appalachia : James Watt Raine on "mountain speech and song" / Susan Kates -- A "forgotten" location : a rhetorical curriculum in English education / Rich Lane -- Parlor rhetoric and the performance of gender in postbellum America / Nan Johnson -- Writing history on the landscape : the tour road at the Saratoga Battlefield as text / S. Michael Halloran -- Transcendence at Yellowstone : educating a public in an uninhabitable place / Gregory Clark -- (Re)turning to Aristotle : metaphor and the rhetorical education of students / Sherry Booth and Susan Frisbie -- Cyberliteracy : toward a new rhetorical consciousness / Laura J. Gurak -- Afterword / Wendy Sharer and Margaret Lyday.

0817314245 (cloth : alk. paper)

2004005274


English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States.
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.

PE1405.U6 / G58 2004

808/.0071/173