Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village and today's rhetorical rehearsals for a political global economy.
Originating from the 1998 Rhetoric Society of America's biennial...

Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village represents current thought on the role of rhetoric in various disciplines, and includes such diverse topics as race, technology, and religion, demonstrating the expanding relevance of rhetoric in today's world. The essays included in this volume address the question of the polis in ancient and modern times, gradually converging with the more recent 30-year span between the decade of the Global Village and today's rhetorical rehearsals for a political global economy.
Originating from the 1998 Rhetoric Society of America's biennial...

This volume presents a theory of writing as representational composition. It envisions texts not as words and clauses forming sentences and high-level linguistic units but as words forming imagery-rich narrative worlds and invitations for readers to interact with them.

This volume presents a theory of writing as representational composition. It envisions texts not as words and clauses forming sentences and high-level linguistic units but as words forming imagery-rich narrative worlds and invitations for readers to interact with them.