Readings in contemporary rhetoric. / [edited by] Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Robert Trapp. - Prospect Heights, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2002. - vii, 400 p. ; ills, biblo, ; 23 cm.

"This vol. of readings and bibliography is designed as a supplement to Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-400).

Contents: The philosophy of rhetoric: Lecture I -- The secret of "feedforward" --What basic English is -- Metaphor as an element of originary language -- Folly as a philosophical problem -- The new rhetoric: a theory of practical reasoning -- The tyranny of principles -- Theory and practice -- The phaedrus and the nature of rhetoric -- A responsible rhetoric -- Life without prejudice -- Dramatism -- Epilogue: prologue in heaven -- Flowerishes -- A philosophico-political profile -- Language -- Reflection on race and sex -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness -- Teaching resistance: the racial politics of mass media -- Neo-colonial fantasies of conquest: hoop dreams -- America -- A marginal system: collecting -- The power of reversibility that exists in the fatal: interview -- History, discourse and discontinuity -- The history of sexuality -- Bibliography

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