Enos – Literacy in Athens During the Archaic Period
Enos, Richard Leo. “Literacy in Athens During the Archaic Period: A Prolegomenon to Rhetorical Invention.” Atwill, Janet, and Janice M. Lauer. Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Print. 16 Enos begins by noting that Plato didn’t necessarily believe that the writing instruction of the sophists was not an epistemological activity; rather, it was merely a skill incapable of discovering new... Read More
Johnson – Craft Knowledge: Of Disciplinarity in Writing Studies
Johnson, Robert. “Craft Knowledge: Of Disciplinarity in Writing Studies.” CCC June 2010. Abstract: This article argues that craft knowledge can provide a disciplinary rationale for writingstudies. It draws from the ancient concepts of teche, phronesis, and the four causes of making and makes the case for a definition of disciplinary knowledge fitting for writing studies. The article concludes with a conceptual framework that can serve as... Read More
Lauer – Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
Lauer, Janice. Invention in Rhetoric and Composition. West Lafayette: Parlor Press, 2004. Print. Chapter 1 – Introduction and Overview: L. notes in the introduction the focus of the book and then continues to define invention a couple of different ways: as a solution to the “problem of finding subjects to write about and of developing these subjects” as well as something that “provides guidance in how to begin writing, to explore... Read More
Agnew – “The Classical Period”
Lois Agnew – “The Classical Period” from The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric: A 21st Century Guide eds. Gaillet and Horner Agnew’s essay highlights the revisionary turn in the histories of rhetoric that have occurred since the previous edition of The Present State of Scholarship (1988) as well as the other major pieces written in the interim between the second edition and the third edition (2010). In the way of sophistic... Read More
Poulakos – Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric
Poulakos, John. “Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 16 (1983): 35-48. P. works in this article to highlight the integral role of the Sophists in the larger picture of classical Greek rhetoric. Published in an era where Plato and Aristotle were kings of classical Greek poetics and rhetoric, P.’s argument in this article provides an alternative historical trajectory for contemporary treatments of ancient... Read More
