Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics
Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century: Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics
edited by Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford contributions by Shirely Brice Heath, Susan C. Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Shirley Wilson Logan, Alyssa O'Brien, John Ruszkiewicz, Bo Wang, Davida Charney, Suellynn Duffey, Lisa Ede, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Melissa A. Goldthwaite and Gerard Hauser afterword by Adam J. Banks
Southern Illinois University Press, 2017 Paper: 978-0-8093-3567-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-3568-8 Library of Congress Classification P301.5.S63R484 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 808
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection of essays investigates the historiography of rhetoric, global perspectives on rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhetoric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss the context and material conditions in which students compose, cover the politics of the field and the value of a rhetorical education, and reflect on contemporary trends in canon diversification. Providing both retrospective and prospective assessments, Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century offers original research by important figures in the field.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Cheryl Glenn is Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric. Her many scholarly publications include Rhetorical Education in America; Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence (SIU Press); Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts (SIU Press); and Landmark Essays in Rhetoric and Feminism.
Roxanne Mountford is Professor of English and Director of Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies and Director of the First-Year Composition Program at the University of Oklahoma, the author of The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces (SIU Press), and a coauthor of Women’s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (Routledge).
REVIEWS
"Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss the context and material conditions in which students compose, cover the politics of the field and the value of a rhetorical education, and reflect on contemporary trends in canon diversification. Providing both retrospective and prospective assessments, "Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century" is comprised of an impressively body of seminal scholarship that collectively showcases original research by important figures in the field."---Michael Dunford, Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
"Glenn (Penn State) and Mountford (Univ. of Oklahoma) begin by discussing the growth of composition and rhetoric as a field and the trajectory of composition pedagogy over the past 40 years. As part of that growth, composition theorists continue to study and establish new approaches to teaching and studying writing, and much of that is included in this volume...Each section compromises three or four essays that draw out and elaborate on the main theme."--J. Dockter, Lincoln Land Community College
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Preface
Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford
Introduction: Into the New Century
Cheryl Glenn and Roxanne Mountford
Part 1. The Nature of Authors and Authority
When Not to Write: Reflections on Words, Books, and Authors
Shirley Brice Heath
Troubling the Waters: Religious Persuasion and Social Activism
Shirley Wilson Logan
Collaboration, Authorship, and the Resistance to Change
Lisa Ede
Part 2. The Genres of Student Writing
Teaching in Place: A Crucial Connection between the English Department and Its Community
Suellynn Duffey
Visual Rhetoric, Intercultural Writers: The University’s Turn
Alyssa J. O’Brien
Pushing Generic Boundaries in Rhetoric and Composition: Three Sites, One Reader’s Response
Melissa A. Goldthwaite
Part 3. The Politics of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing in the Academy
Citizenship, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy
Gerard A. Hauser
Who, Then, Is This Rhetoric Major?
John J. Ruszkiewicz and Davida Charney
Networked Feminism: Mentoring in the New Economy
Roxanne Mountford and Cheryl Glenn
Part 4. The Impermanence of a Canon
The Empress and the Sophist: Power and Artistry in Third-Century Greek Rhetoric
Susan C. Jarratt
Rhetorical Education at Catholic Colleges for Women in Ohio: 1925–1940
Nan Johnson
Feminist Perspectives on Postcolonial Rhetorical Practices: Spivak’s Cosmopolitan Erudition and Nazer’s Surveilled Silence
Elizabeth A. Flynn
Translating Nora: Chinese Feminism and Global Rhetoric
Bo Wang
Afterword: Ain’t No Walls behind the Sky, Baby! Funk, Flight, Freedom
Adam J. Banks