Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that -no rhetoric--not Plato's or Aris-totle's or Quintilian's or Perelman's--is permanent.- At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing vari-ous views of reality expressed through a rhetoric.
Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting elements: -re-ality, writer or speaker, audience, and language.- As emphasis shifts from one element to another, or as the interaction between elements...
Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that -no rhetoric--not Pl...
Berlin here continues his unique history of American college com-position begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1984), turning now to the twentieth century.
In discussing the variety of rhetorics that have been used in writ-ing classrooms Berlin introduces a taxonomy made up of three cate-gories: objective rhetorics, subjective rhetorics, and transactional rhetorics, which are distinguished by the epistemology on which each is based. He makes clear that these categories are not tied to a chronology but instead are to be found in the English...
Berlin here continues his unique history of American college com-position begun in his Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century Colleges (1...
"Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures" is Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric-displaced and marginalized aesthetic texts in the college English department. (Education/Teaching)
"Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures" is Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both...
