Rhetoric: Concord and Controversy by Antonio de Velasco,Melody Lehn

By Antonio de Velasco,Melody Lehn

In may possibly 2010, greater than 1,000 students from around the world accrued for the Rhetoric Society of America’s fourteenth biennial convention to consider of the numerous dimensions of rhetoric, one divisive and conflictive, the opposite irenic and unifying. Cicero pointed out those divergent traits, whereas Kenneth Burke took this either/or cut up character and reworked it right into a area the place id and department are stumbled on jointly, the place sameness and variety include the paintings of rhetoric. As a fabricated from the convention, Rhetoric: harmony and Controversy deals 32 essays that think about this realm of rhetoric and divulges a panorama that's brilliant in addition to various, obvious in addition to dense. those soaking up and considerate contributions ask, between many different issues, what are the boundaries of rhetorical harmony? What position does race and gender play within the give-and-take of solidarity and distinction? Is there a doable replacement to agreeing to disagree? How can rhetorical pedagogy reply to the political controversies of today?

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