Fifteen new essays on the history and theory of rhetoric, the art of composition, discourse education over history, academic writing programs, ethics and language, rhetoric and literature, the evangelical movement and American advertising, etc.. A fitting tribute to the distinguished career of James L Kinneavy, author of A Theory of Discourse and The Greek Rhetorical Origins of Christian Faith.
- Cover
- Contents
- Biographical Introduction: Vir Bonus Agendi Peritus
- Some JLK Students Speak
- Acknowledgments
- JLK: The Bibliography
- The Essays: Our Tribute to James L. Kinneavy
- Part One: CLASSICAL AND MODERN RHETORIC
- Classical Rhetoric: The Basic Issues
- A Rhetoric of Ethics and Cultural Understanding: The Quest of Isocrates
- Refiguring Rhetoric: Aristotle's Concept of Techne
- Nineteenth Century Scottish Rhetoric: The Missing Link Between Classical and Modern
- Part Two: POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES
- Two Propositions: On the Hermeneutics of Suspicion and on Writing the History of Rhetoric
- Rhetoric and Post-Deconstructionism: A Relationist Theory of Meaning
- Social Rhetoric and Political Action
- Part Three: THE TEACHING OF WRITING
- Fred Newton Scott and the Reform Movement of the 1890s
- Is There a Place for Classical Rhetoric in the Teaching of Composition Today?
- Kinneavy's Theory of Discourse and the College English Major
- "Tracing Round the Frame": Thinking About Writing in Departments of English
- Part Four: SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND ADVERTISING
- Voice in Scientific Discourse
- Ethics Across the Curriculum
- The Promised Land: The Rhetoric of Religion and the Development of American Advertising
- Epilogue: "Jim Kinneavy"
- Index
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- Tabula gratulatoria
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