Gage – An Adequate Epistemology for Composition: Classical and Modern Perspectives

Gage, John. “An Adequate Epistemology for Composition: Classical and Modern Perspectives.” Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse. Ed. Robert Conners, Lisa Ede, and Andrea Lunsford. Carbondale: Souther Illinois UP, 1984. 152-73. Print. (PN175 .E84 1984) Trajectory of article:  1) the implications for rhetoric of differing epistemologies; 2) demonstrate how particular epistemological assumptions undergird both classical rhetoric... Read More

Zappen – Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence

Citation: Zappen, James P. “Kenneth Burke on Dialectical-Rhetorical Transcendence.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 279-301. Print. Abstract: The article discusses the complex and elusive concept of scholar Kenneth Burke of rhetoric that intertwined and infused with dialectic. The author notes that the connection of rhetoric and dialectic of Burke is well established. He mentions that Burke’s rhetoric as identification is... Read More

Muckelbauer – The Future of Invention

Muckelbauer – The Future of Invention Chapter One – “The Problem of Change” Muckelbauer situates his book around one premise: the supposedly distinct scholarly approaches of humanism/postmodernism, foundationalism/anti-foundationalism, universalism/relativism have all hinge on a dialectical notion of change.  This means that if change is dialectical, every “new” reading academics perform is merely a negation of an existing reading. .... Read More

CCR601 – R&P 42.3

Bayer, Thora I. “Hegelian Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-19. Print Rhetoric is an antistrophe to dialectic (antistrophe is the “turning back” of the chorous on the audience in the traditional ancient Greek play). Kant considered dialectic the “logic of illusion” that occurs when reason takes its powers beyond experience to make claims concerning the nature of the soul, world, and God (203). Kant is responsible... Read More