Ninth Biennial Conference held in Washington, D.C.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Rhetoric as a vocation : a Weberian meditation / James Arnt Aune -- The politics of professing rhetoric in the history of composition and communication / Nancy McKoski -- Sleeping with the enemy : recoupling rhetorical studies and rhetoric and composition / Janice Norton -- Toward finding common critical and pedagogical ground / Beth S. Bennett -- Republican rhetoric and subversity : speaking for white women and American Indians in the 1820s / Deborah Gussman -- Rhetorical education for political action : the league of women voters and the subversion of political parties in the 1920s / Wendy B. Sharer -- Frederick Douglass, between speech and print / Thomas Augst -- When the 'past is not even the past' : the rhetoric of a Southern historical marker / Derryn E. Moten -- Kairos and the rhetorical place / Jerry Blitefield -- Rhetoric and the body : a lesson from ancient elocutionists / Annalisa Zanola Macola -- Live from the operating room : a generic visual rhetoric / R. Michael Jackson -- Policing the architectural canon : the gendered discourse of architectural studies / Elizabeth Birmingham -- Anonymity, pseudonymity, and collective authorship : rethinking ethos and the politics of disclosure / Kathryn T. Flannery -- Mediated ethos : instructor credibility in a televised writing course / Joyce Magnotto Neff -- The essay matters because the Essayist matters : personal disclosures and the enactment of Ethos in essays by black feminist writers / Juanita Rodgers Comfort -- Apologizing for authority : the rhetoric of the prefaces of Eliza Cook, Isabelle Bird, and Hannah More / Elizabeth Howells -- Romantic heroism and 'public character' : ethical criticism of performative traditions in public discourse / Stephen A. Klien -- Paranarrative and the performance of creative nonfiction / Lawrence K. Stanley -- Preparing ethical citizens for the twenty-first century / Jami Carlacio and Alice Gillam -- Rhetoric and ethics : is 'how should we proceed?' the wrong question? / Richard Glejzer -- Public schools, private ethics : rhetoric of service in composition / Melody Bowdon -- The rhetoric of globalization, graduate student labor, and practices of resistance / Catherine Chaput -- Rereading the literacy crisis of American colleges and universities / Christopher Schroeder -- Sophistic masks and rhetorical nomads / Bradford Vivian -- Paideia versus techne : Isocrates's performative conception of rhetorical education / Ekaterina V. Haskins -- Thoroughly modern Vico : The new science and counter-enlightenment politics / Daniel L. Emery -- Rhetoric of science as non-modern practice / Carl G. Herndl -- Ending the war between science and religion : can rhetorology do the job? / Wayne C. Booth -- The open question of the conversation between science and religion : a response to Wayne Booth's rhetorology / James L. Kastely.

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