Rebirth of Rhetoric: Essays in Language and Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415062624 ISBN 13: 9780415062626

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

In the 25 years, "English" has come under attack from various angles: from other subjects fighting for space on the school or college timetable, from critics who see it as too "literary" based; from those in cultural studies who see it as based on a narrow canon of texts, and from those who see it as unnecessarily excluding media or other oral texts. "Rebirth of Rhetoric" brings together contributions from several fields to provide a forum in which a unifying theory for language and literature studies can be debated. Rhetoric seems well equipped with the necessary breadth, history and versatility to fulfill that role. "Rhetoric" is used here in its widest sense of the art of discourse. The book does not aim to resurrect classical or Renaissance rhetoric, but to remake it within a contemporary context. The context of texts (both spoken and written) is one of the main emphases of this collection, whether it is the ideology informing the text, or the way in which a text is transformed by its audience. This book should be of interest to English language, literature and education students and academics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415062624
• ISBN 13: 9780415062626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Andrews Richard