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From the early 1940s through the 1960s, some of the most important articles in rhetoric and composition were written by University of Chicago faculty, and it was these articles that became the touchstones of rhetorical education in the institutional return to rhetoric in the latter half of the twentieth century. Despite the immense rhetorical output of these University of Chicago professors, there has not been, to date, a book-length treatment of why these writers focused their attention on the importance of rhetoric in the writing class. Not only that, but there has not been a revisionist account of how these articles were constructed or how the teaching of rhetoric and composition has often been misguided as a result of an uncritical acceptance of these articles in the rhetorical tradition. By organizing these articles based on their University of Chicago context, 'Rhetoric at the University of Chicago' sheds new light on the beginnings of rhetoric and composition and demonstrates the significance of historical context in avoiding the misuse of these articles as foundationalist rhetorical history.
Introduction: the windy university -- Chapter one: Richard McKeon and "rhetoric and the middle ages" -- Chapter two: Kenneth Burke and "the problem of the intrinsic" -- Chapter three: Kenneth Burke and "rhetoric old and new" -- Chapter four: Richard Weaver and "to write the truth" -- Chapter five: Manuel Bilsky, Richard Weaver, Robert Streeter, and McCrea Hazlitt and "looking for an argument" -- Chapter six: Wayne Booth and "the revival of rhetoric" -- Conclusion: "this place is mad."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Department of English Language and Literature