Toward a feminist rhetoric : the writing of Gertrude Buck / edited by JoAnn Campbell.

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. THEORY OF ORGANIC EDUCATION -- The Organic Curriculum -- The Religious Experience of a Skeptic -- II. A SOCIAL RHETORIC AND POETICS -- Genesis: Poetic Metaphor -- The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory -- What Does “Rhetoric� Mean? -- The Social Criticism of Literature -- III. COMPOSITION INSTRUCTION WITH PURPOSE -- Recent Tendencies in the Teaching of English Composition -- The Basis of Exposition -- Argumentation -- Marks in Freshman English -- IV. HOLISTIC GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION

The Sentence-DiagramThe Psychology of the Diagram -- Make-Believe Grammar -- V. POETRY, PLAYS, AND FEMINIST FICTION -- Preface to Poems and Plays -- Poems -- The Road to Nowhere -- A Maine Road -- Fishing -- Berlin -- An Epitaph -- The Return -- Mother-Love -- The Girl from the Marsh Croft -- The Funeral -- VI. WORKING DOCUMENTS -- Correspondence and Department Reports -- Works Cited

The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested in the history of composition. Her writing is less well-known, much of it now out of print. JoAnn Campbell gathers together for the first time the major work of this innovative thinker and educator, including her most important articles on rhetorical theory; The Social Criticism of Literature, a forerunner of reader-response literary theory; selections from her textbooks on argumentative and expository writing; poetry; fiction; her play Mother-Love, and u.

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