When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller s "Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer "established a landmark pedagogical approach to composition based on the importance of the writer and the act of writing in the history of rhetoric. Widely used as an introduction to rhetoric and composition theory for graduate students, the volume was the first winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award from "JAC "and is still one of the most frequently cited books in the field.This first paperback edition includes a new introductory chapter in which Miller addresses...
When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller s "Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer "established a landmark ...
"Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric" challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.This groundbreaking volume makes a case for historical rhetoric as disbursed, formal and informal lessons in persuasion that are codified as crafts that mediate between what is known and unknown in particular...
"Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric" challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian ...
