A Responsive Rhetorical Art - Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life

Offers a study of rhetorical action in the public sphere. Such action is a responsive and practical art. Dr. Long pursues the claim that rhetorical education can make wise rhetorical action both teachable and open to reflection and revision.

About the author

Elenore Long is an associate professor in the Department of English at Arizona State University. Grounded in community literacy, her scholarship draws on a wide array of rhetorical methods to test the limits and potential of day-to-day democracy under contemporary conditions.

Summary

Explores the risk ridden realm of wise, if always fallible, rhetorical action.

Product details

• Authors: Elenore Long
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780822965503
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6550-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics