Reclaiming rhetorica : women in the rhetorical tradition / Andrea A. Lunsford, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culturePublisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780822971658
- 0822971658
- 9780822938729
- 0822938723
- Rhetoric -- History
- Women authors
- Women orators
- Rhétorique -- Histoire
- Écrivaines
- Oratrices
- authors
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies
- Rhetoric
- Women authors
- Women orators
- 808/.0082 20
- P301 .R346 1995eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents -- Foreword / James J. Murphy -- Acknowledgments -- 1. On Reclaiming Rhetorica / Andrea A. Lunsford -- 2. Aspasia: Rhetoric, Gender, and Colonial Ideology / Susan Jarratt and Rory Ong -- 3. A Lover�s Discourse: Diotima, Logos, and Desire / C. Jan Swearingen -- 4. Reexamining The Book of Margery Kempe: A Rhetoric of Autobiography / Cheryl Glenn -- 5. Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies: A Medieval Rhetorician and Her Rhetoric / Jenny R. Redfern -- 6. Mary Astell: Reclaiming Rhetorica in the Seventeenth Century / Christine Mason Sutherland
7. Daring to Dialogue: Mary Wollstonecraft�s Rhetoric of Feminist Dialogics / Jamie Barlowe8. Inventing a Feminist Discourse: Rhetoric and Resistance in Margaret Fuller�s Woman in the Nineteenth Century / Annette Kolodny -- 9. To Call a Thing by Its True Name: The Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells / Jacqueline Jones Royster -- 10. “Intelligent Members or Restless Disturbers�: Women�s Rhetorical Styles, 1880�1920 / Joanne Wagner -- 11. Woman Suffrage and the History of Rhetoric at the Seven Sisters Colleges, 1865�1919 / Kathryn M. Conway
12. Sojourner Truth: A Practical Public Discourse / Drema R. Lipscomb13. The Telling: Laura (Riding) Jackson�s Project for a Whole Human Discourse / James Oldham -- 14. Susanne K. Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Rebirth of Rhetoric / Arabella Lyon -- 15. A Rhetoric for Audiences: Louise Rosenblatt on Reading and Action / Annika Hallin -- 16. Julia Kristeva: Rhetoric and the Woman as Stranger / Suzanne Clark -- Afterword -- Index -- Notes on Contributors
Women's contribution to rhetoric throughout Western history, like so many other aspects of women's experience, has yet to be fully explored. In pathbreaking discussions ranging from ancient Greece, though the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to modern times, sixteen closely coordinated essays examine how women have used language to reflect their vision of themselves and their age; how they have used traditional rhetoric and applied it to women's discourse; and how women have contributed to rhetorical theory. Language specialists, feminists, and all those interested in rhetoric, composition.
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