Genteel Rhetoric
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Genteel Rhetoric
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Author : Dorothy C. Broaddus
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1999
Genteel Rhetoric written by Dorothy C. Broaddus and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
They were part of a larger North American refinement movement - a movement interrupted by the Civil War. Broaddus argues that the genteel and coherent voices with which these writers discuss literature and high culture break apart when they begin to write about material issues related to slavery, abolition, and war against the background of growing dissent between North and South. Genteel Rhetoric examines the writers as they live through and write about the Civil War - Emerson and Lowell from a safe distance, Holmes searching for his wounded son in Maryland, and Higginson in the thick of action as colonel of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of former slaves in the Union army.
Genteel Citizenship
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Author : Paul Gregory Dahlgren
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Genteel Citizenship written by Paul Gregory Dahlgren and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
This dissertation argues for disentangling the history of rhetoric from its current disciplinary identities in composition, communication, and literary studies. In so doing, it revises the history of both antebellum rhetoric and early American literary history. I accomplish this task by investigating an institution that had a disproportionate influence on both these histories, Harvard University. Harvard developed one of the earliest and most influential programs in rhetoric, a program that according to one literary critic educated over one third of major male American authors before the Civil War, but whose restrictive elitism and over-emphasis on grammatical correctness have long troubled scholars. Though historians of rhetoric have, in recent years, turned to places other than Harvard, I examine Harvard's other places, those parts of the curricula and extra-curricula where rhetoric was taught but which do not resemble the current disciplinary homes for academic rhetoricians. For instance, while scholars in rhetorical studies have concentrated on the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory (one of the first positions in rhetoric in the United States), less well studied are the chairs in theology, law and what was once called "moral philosophy." Furthermore, I complement my study of Harvard's curriculum with an examination of its extra-curricula including the orations and poems read at the annual celebration of Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa Society, part of the university's yearly commencement and an annual literary event in its own right. My investigation suggests that the increased importance of the rhetorical canon of style was not a retreat from civic life, as is customarily argued, but rather the result of a merging of neo-Lockean rhetorical theory and Germanic materialism, which was designed to reinvigorate citizenship as civic republican thought was transformed by liberal political theory and market capitalism.
Rhetoric History And Women S Oratorical Education
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Author : David Gold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Rhetoric History And Women S Oratorical Education written by David Gold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.
Rhetoric And The Republic
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Author : Mark Garrett Longaker
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007
Rhetoric And The Republic written by Mark Garrett Longaker and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education. Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the various—and often conflicting—curricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues that higher education more than 200 years ago allowed actors with differing political and economic interests to wrestle over the fate of American citizenship. Then, as today, there was widespread agreement that civic training was essential in higher education, but there were also sharp differences in the various visions of what proper republic citizenship entailed and how to prepare for it. Longaker studies in detail the specific trends in rhetorical education offered at various early institutions—such as Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and William and Mary—with analyses of student lecture notes, classroom activities, disputation exercises, reading lists, lecture outlines, and literary society records. These documents reveal an extraordinary range of economic and philosophical interests and allegiances—agrarian, commercial, spiritual, communal, and belletristic—specific to each institution. The findings challenge and complicate a widely held belief that early-American civic education occurred in a halcyon era of united democratic republicanism. Recognition that there are multiple ways to practice democratic citizenship and to enact democratic discourse, historically as well as today, best serves the goal of civic education, Longaker argues. Rhetoric and the Republic illuminates an important historical moment in the history of American education and dramatically highlights rhetorical education as a key site in the construction of democracy.
The Role Of Prescriptivism In American Linguistics 1820 1970
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Author : Glendon F. Drake
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1977-01-01
The Role Of Prescriptivism In American Linguistics 1820 1970 written by Glendon F. Drake and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The phenomenon of absolutist, prescriptive correctness is persistent and pervasive in the linguistic through of educated and intelligent citizens of the United States. This volume is not only and attempt to gain some understanding of the source, nature, and operation of the prescriptive attitude, but also to examine it in the light of what Einar Haugen (1972) has called the 'ecology of language', that is, the relationship between language attitudes and other social and cultural behavior.
Conversational Rhetoric
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Author : Jane Donawerth
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2012
Conversational Rhetoric written by Jane Donawerth and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In Conversational Rhetoric, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres-humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women's preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks.
Rhetorical Style And Bourgeois Virtue
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Author : Mark Garrett Longaker
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Rhetorical Style And Bourgeois Virtue written by Mark Garrett Longaker and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of capitalism. Longaker’s study lingers on four British intellectuals from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century: philosopher John Locke, political economist Adam Smith, rhetorical theorist Hugh Blair, and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Across one hundred and fifty years, these influential men sought to mold British students into good bourgeois citizens by teaching them the discursive habits of clarity, sincerity, moderation, and economy, all with one incontrovertible truth in mind: the free market requires virtuous participants in order to thrive. Through these four case studies—written as biographically focused yet socially attentive intellectual histories—Longaker portrays the British rhetorical tradition as beholden to the dual masters of ethics and economics, and he sheds new light on the deliberate intellectual engineering implicit in Enlightenment pedagogy.
Mark Twain
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Author : James Melville Cox
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2002
Mark Twain written by James Melville Cox and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Fiction categories.
In Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, James M. Cox pursues the development of Mark Twain's humor through all the forms it took from "The Jumping Frog" to The Mysterious Stranger. Instead of seeking the seriousness behind the humor, Cox concentrates upon the humor itself as the transfiguring power that converted all the "serious" issues and emotions of Mark Twain's life and time into narratives designed to evoke helpless laughter. In those sudden moments of pleasurable helplessness, we glimpse the great heart of a writer who imagined freedom in the slave society of his youth and discovered slavery in the free country of his old age. For this edition of Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor, the author has written a new introduction showing how and why Mark Twain remains a central figure in American life; he has also appended an essay disclosing why Adventures of Huckleberry Finn will always be a hard book to take.
The Art Of Gratitude
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Author : Jeremy David Engels
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-04-25
The Art Of Gratitude written by Jeremy David Engels and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt. In The Art of Gratitude, Jeremy David Engels sketches a genealogy of gratitude from the ancient Greeks to the contemporary self-help movement. One of the most striking things about gratitude, Engels finds, is how consistently it is described using the language of indebtedness. A chief purpose of this, he contends, is to make us more comfortable living lives in debt, with the nefarious effect of pacifying the citizenry so we are less likely to speak out about social and economic injustice. To counteract this, he proposes an alternative art of gratitude-as-thanksgiving that is inspired by Indian philosophy, particularly the yoga philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutras. He argues that this art of gratitude can challenge neoliberalism by reorienting our politics away from resentment, anger, and guilt and toward a democratic ethic of thanksgiving and the common good. Jeremy David Engels is the Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University. He is the author of The Politics of Resentment: A Genealogy and Enemyship: Democracy and Counter-Revolution in the Early Republic.
Girls And Literacy In America
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Author : Jane Greer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2003-05-23
Girls And Literacy In America written by Jane Greer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An exploration of the fascinating and controversial history of girls' education in America from the colonial era to the computer age. Girls and Literacy in America offers a tour of opportunities, obstacles, and achievements in girls' education from the limited possibilities of colonial days to the wide-open potential of the Internet generation. Six essays, written by historians and focused on particular historical periods, examine the extensive range of girls' literacies in both educational and extracurricular settings. Girls from various ethnic and racial backgrounds, social classes, religions, and geographic areas of the nation are included. A host of primary documents, including such items as an 18th century hornbook to excerpts from girls' "conversations" in Internet chat rooms allow readers an opportunity to evaluate for themselves some of the materials mentioned in the volume's opening essays. And finally, an extensive bibliography will be invaluable to students expected to conduct more extensive primary research.
