Author: Joseph Petraglia

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0791458091

Argues for a more theoretically-informed and cogent curricular space for rhetoric in the academy. In The Realms of Rhetoric, contributors from a wide range of disciplines explore the challenges and opportunities faced in building a curricular space in the academy for rhetoric. Although rhetoric education has its roots in ancient times, the modern era has seen it fragmented into composition and public speaking, obscuring concepts, theories, and skills. Petraglia and Bahri consider the prospects for rhetoric education outside of narrow disciplinary constraints and, together with leading scholars, examine opportunities that can propel and revitalize rhetoric education at the beginning of the millennium. "The teaching of rhetoric—of how to think together and talk together and read and write together—is the most important of all vocations, and this book is a step toward uniting those of us who, under whatever disciplinary label, see it that way." — from the Foreword by Wayne C. Booth "The great strength of this book is that Petraglia and Bahri were able to collect essays that all pursue a common goal—the articulation of a common, trans-disciplinary rhetoric education—without sacrificing coherence." — Bruce McComiskey, author of Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric "Unlike many books and articles that purport to address issues of the teaching of rhetoric or rhetorical skills, this collection manages to keep its focus on pedagogy and curriculum in a way that illuminates both the problems facing rhetoric education today and the prospects for revitalizing it in the near future." — Robert Yagelski, coeditor of The Relevance of English: Teaching that Matters in Students' Lives Contributors include Deepika Bahri, Anne Beaufort, David Bleich, Wayne C. Booth, M. Lane Bruner, Michael Carter, Grant C. Cos, Ellen Cushman, Thomas J. Darwin, David Fleming, William D. Fusfield, Victoria Gallagher, Hildegard Hoeller, Walter Jost, Carolyn R. Miller, Thomas P. Miller, Rolf Norgaard, Joseph Petraglia, and John T. Scenters-Zapico.