Lost texts in rhetoric and composition /

Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric. A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical traditio...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holdstein, Deborah H., 1952- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association of America, [2023].
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Reviving the lost text / Deborah H. Holdstein
  • The early twentieth century and before. Isaac Rabinowitz's translation and critical edition of Judah Messer Leon's The book of the honeycomb's flow / Jim Ridolfo
  • A rhetoric of pen and brush / Anne Ruggles Gere
  • Understanding 'English composition as a social problem': finding Sterling Andrus Leonard in rhetoric and composition / Morris Young
  • Rodolphe Töpffer and the histories of rhetoric / Sergio C. Figueiredo
  • Talking teachers into motion: rereading William James's Talks to teachers / Kurt Spellmeyer
  • The mid-twentieth century. A composition commons: the Stanford language arts investigation, 1937-1939 / Jessica Yood
  • Toward social transformation: renewing the Burkean theory of identification / Mary C. Carruth
  • College Composition and Communication, volume 15, 1964: afterglow, childhood, obituary? / Douglas Hesse
  • The 1970s. On recovering Adrienne Rich's "Teaching language in open admissions" / Howard Tinberg
  • "A fresh progression in thought and expression": remembering 'The plural I', by William E. Coles, Jr. / Peter Wayne Moe and David Bartholomae
  • Reappraising Course X / Rebecca Day Babcock
  • The power of mutable structures: a return to Ann E. Berthoff's Forming, thinking, writing / Paige Davis Arrington
  • Humanizing and decolonizing composition: John Mohawk's "Western peoples, natural peoples" / Rachel B. Griffis
  • On reading Roger Sale's On writing / John Schilb
  • 1980-1992. International linguistics research and the legacy of Frédéric François / Tiane K. Donahue
  • Before wireless networks: foundational works in computers and writing / Douglas Eyman
  • William J. Vande Kopple and syntactic subjects / Philip Eubanks
  • Possibilities rather than certainties: William Irmscher's "Finding a comfortable identity" / Christine Farris
  • New literacies and new coherencies: the relevance of Betty Bamberg's "What makes a text coherent?" / Larry Beason
  • Enduring value: the case for 'Beat not the poor desk' / Eric J. Sterling
  • How the twenty-first century changed Ira Shor's Critical teaching and everyday life / Michael Bernard-Donals
  • Lingering questions from Lynn Quitman Troyka's "Defining basic writing in context" / Lynn Reid
  • "Bound to sound": reaffirming Walter J. Ong / Clint Bryan
  • Geneva Smitherman's "Toward a national public policy on language" / Staci M. Perryman-Clark
  • After 1992. The importance of being readers reading in Robert P. Yagelski's Writing as a way of being / Asao B. Inoue
  • Becoming which composition? James Thomas Zebroski's "Toward a theory of theory for composition studies" / Julie Jung
  • Me, myself, and all of us: revisiting Linda Brodkey's "Writing on the bias" / Jonathan Alexander
  • Vernacular scholarship and Craig S. Womack's Red on red: Native American literary separatism / Stephen Donatelli
  • Rediscovering Deborah Cameron's Verbal hygiene / Pegeen Reichert Powell
  • The intellectual work of composition: James F. Slevin's Introducing English / Bruce Horner
  • The radicalism of Marilyn Sternglass / Joseph Harris.