Theorizing histories of rhetoric / edited by Michelle Ballif.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Michelle Ballif; 1. Theory, Validity, and the Historiography of Classical Rhetoric: A Discussion of Archaeological Rhetoric -- Richard Leo Enos; 2. Enactment History, Jesuit Practices, and Rhetorical Hermeneutics -- Steven Mailloux; 3. Writing the Other into Histories of Rhetorics: Theorizing the Art of Recontextualization -- LuMing Mao; 4. Releasing Hold: Feminist Historiography without the Tradition -- Jessica Enoch; 5. Queer Archives/Archival Queers -- Charles E. Morris III and K.J. Rawson.

6. Pan-historiography: The Challenges of Writing History across Time and Space -- Debra Hawhee and Christa J. Olson7. Stitching Together Events: Of Joints, Folds, and Assemblages -- Byron Hawk; 8. Rhetoric's Nose: What Can Rhetorical Historiography Make of It? -- Jane S. Sutton; 9. Historiography as Hauntology: Paranormal Investigations into the History of Rhetoric -- Michelle Ballif; 10. Writing Future Rhetoric -- G.L. Ercolini and Pat J. Gehrke; 11. A Philology for a Future Anterior: An Essay-as-Seminar -- Victor J. Vitanza; Afterword: A Reminiscence -- Sharon Crowley; Works Cited; Contributors.

During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, historians of rhetoric, composition, and communication vociferously theorized historiographical motivations and methodologies for writing histories in their fields. After this fertile period of rich, contested, and impassioned theorization, scholars busily undertook the composition of numerous historical works, complicating master narratives and recovering silenced voices and rhetorical practices. Yet, though historians in these fields have gone about the business of writing histories, the discussion of theorization has been quiet. In this we.

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