Ettlich – Theories of Invention in Late 19th Century American Rhetoric

Ettlich, Ernest Earl.  “Theories of Invention in Late Nineteenth Century American Rhetoric.”  Western Speech Journal 30 (1966):  233-241. E. notes that the topic of rhetorical invention has long been problematic/contested.  E. observes that Ramus’ revision of the liberal arts curriculum during the 1500s was the most serious challenge to rhetorical invention (classically conceived) before the 19th century.  Ramus assumed that invention... Read More

WRT624 – Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Ch. 2

Collin Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Chapter 2: Ecology This chapter is the theoretical framing for Brooke’s book.  In this section Brooke outlines rhetoric and composition’s relationship with the five cannons of rhetoric.  He also references multiple thinkers who have taken up the rhetorical cannons in the recent past.  Finally, he reconceived of the classical triumvirate to provide a new conceptual/theoretical program based in ecologies as... Read More