Professing Rhetoric

<p>Representing current theory and research in rhetoric this volume brings together scholarship from a variety of orientations--theoretical critical historical and pedagogical. Some contributions cover work that has previously been silenced or unrecognized including Native American African American Latino and women's rhetorics. Others explore rhetoric's relationship to performance and to the body or to revising canons stases topoi and pisteis. Still others are reworking the rhetorical lexicon to comprise contemporary theory. Among these diverse interests rhetoricians find common themes and share intellectual and pedagogical enterprises that hold them together even as their institutional situations keep them apart. <br><br> Topics discussed in this collection include: <br> *Rhetoric as figurality; comparative and contrastive rhetorics; rhetoric and gender; and rhetorics of science and technology;<br> *Rhetoric and reconceptions of the public sphere; rhetoric and public memory; and rhetorics of globalization and social change including issues of race ethnicity and nationalism;<br> *Rhetoric's institutionalized place in the academy in relation to other humanities and to the interpretive social sciences; and<br> *The place of rhetoric in the formation of departments and the development of pedagogy <br><br> With its origins in the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) conference this volume represents the range and vitality of current scholarship in rhetoric. The conversations contained herein indicate that professing rhetoric is at the turn of the millennium an intellectual activity that engages with and helps formulate the most important public and scholarly questions of today. As such it will be engaging reading for scholars and students and is certain to provoke further thought discussion and exploration.</p>