{"product_id":"reengaging-the-prospects-of-rhetoric-9780415873093","title":"Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume \u003cem\u003eThe Prospect of Rhetoric\u003c\/em\u003e (1971), this volume reconceptualizes that classic work to address the challenges facing the study of rhetoric today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith contributions from today's leading rhetorical scholars, \u003cem\u003eReengaging tje Prospects of Rhetoric \u003c\/em\u003eoffers response essays to each chapter of the original work. Each scholar uses his\/her essay as a forum in which to address three questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAs a historical document, why is this essay important? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn terms of contemporary theory and\/or practice, what is the significance of the essay? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can the issues raised therein be profitably addressed in the future? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese provocative engagements suggest that, while the study of rhetoric has gained much ground in the intervening decades, there is more w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE: THE PROSPECT AS PROSPECTUS by Thomas O. Sloane\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 1: KARL WALLACE: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE; A Response to Karl Wallace’s \"The Fundamentals of Rhetoric\" by Stephen Howard Browne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 2: PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: EVENTAL RHETORIC; A Response to Samuel L. Becker’s \"Rhetorical Studies for the Contemporary World\" by Barbara A. Biesecker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 3: REVISITING RICHARD MCKEON’S ARCHITECTONIC RHETORIC; A Response to Richard McKeon’s \"The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts\" by David Depew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 4: OUR PREMATURE BURIAL; A Response to Lawrence W. Rosenfield’s \"An Autopsy of the Rhetorical Tradition\" by Robert S. Iltis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 5: THE PROSPECTS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RHETORIC; A Response to Henry Johnstone’s \"Some Trends in Rhetorical Theory\" by Steve Fuller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 6: A POLEMICAL EXCURSION THROUGH \"THE SCOPE OF RHETORIC TODAY\"; A Response to Wayne Booth’s \"The Scope of Rhetoric Today: A Polemical Excursion\" by Paul Kameen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 7: CHAIM PERELMAN’S PROLEGOMENON TO A NEW RHETORIC: HOW SHOULD WE FEEL? A Response to Chaim Perelman’s \"The New Rhetoric\" by Celeste Michelle Condit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 8: A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF RHETORIC: HUGH DUNCAN’S FORGOTTEN CORPUS; A Response to Hugh Dalziel Duncan’s \"The Need for Clarification in Social Models of Rhetoric\" by Peter Simonson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 9: RHETORIC AND THE THIRD CULTURE: SCIENTISTS AND ARGUERS AND CRITICS; A Response to Wayne Brockriede’s\"Trends in the Study of Rhetoric: Towards a Blending of Criticism and Science\" by John Lyne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 10: ‘THE CULT OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY’: CONTINUED QUERIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF OUR DISCOURSE(S); A Response to Barnet Baskerville’s \"Responses, Queries, and A Few Caveats\" by Mark J. Porrovecchio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCHAPTER 11: READING THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: CHANGING DISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES IN RHETORICAL STUDIES; A Response to Edward P. J. Corbett’s \"Rhetoric in Search of a Past, Present, and Future\" by Steven Mailloux\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEPILOGUE: THE PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND THE PROSPECTS FOR RHETORIC by Herbert W. Simons\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402154910039,"sku":"9780415873093","price":54.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reengaging-the-prospects-of-rhetoric-9780415873093","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}