Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805844074 ISBN 13: 9780805844078

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

In this collection of original essays, editors Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller join their contributors--a veritable "who's who" in composition scholarship--in seeking to illuminate and complicate many of the tensions present in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributions included here emphasize key issues in past and present work, setting the stage for future thought and study. The book also honors the late Jim Corder, a major figure in the development of the rhetoric and composition discipline. In the spirit of Corder's unfinished work, the contributors to this volume absorb, probe, stretch, redefine, and interrogate classical, modern, and postmodern rhetorics--and challenge their limitations.

Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students in rhetoric and composition, English, and communication studies. Offering a provocative discussion of postprocess composition theories and pedagogies and postmodern rhetorics, as well as the first thorough consideration of Jim Corder's contributions, this work is certain to influence the course of future study and research.

About this title

Synopsis

The editors and contributors to this volume illuminate many of the tensions in the field of rhetoric and composition studies, thereby contributing to postprocess pedagogy and post-postmodernist rhetoric. They also honor the late Jim Corder, whose body of work reconciles opposites, provides a sustained search for ethos, offers a prophet's call for the commodiousness of language and voice, and attempts to answer the ubiquitous question of why people listen to some but not others. Explaining the scope and role of rhetoric in contemporary scholarship, the book is divided into four parts. Part I contextualizes and highlights the emergence of a fledgling discipline during the 1970s. Part II is an exploration of Jim Corder's work, including analyses of several of his essays and texts. Part III investigates and interrogates various trajectories, vectors, possibilities, and extensions of Corder's rhetoric. Part IV offers future direction for some current issues. This book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of rhetoric and composition in departments of English and scholars in communication studies.

About the Author

Shaun Breslin is Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. His research primarily focuses on the politics and international relations of contemporary China, and the study of comparative regionalism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0805844074
• ISBN 13: 9780805844078
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Enos Theresa Jarnagi, Miller Keith D., McCracken Jill