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Most Traditional Works Of Rhetorical History Have Excluded The Activities Of Women, But Listening To Their Voices Retrieves The Words And Writings Of Women Who Contributed To The Rhetorical Realm. Offering Fresh Interpretations Of Women's Speaking And Writing Throughout Western History, The Eighteen Essays In This Collection Extend Existing Definitions Of Rhetoric And Enrich Conventional Knowledge Of Rhetorical History. In Her Introduction Molly Meijer Wertheimer Traces The Patriarchal Nature Of Traditional Rhetorical Histories As Well As The Continuing Debate About How Best To Write Women Into Rhetoric's Historical Record. Though Composed From A Variety Of Disciplinary Perspectives, The Volume's Essays Advance Rhetorical Theory By Examining Exceptional Women Rhetoricians And Their Unusual Rhetorical Practices And Strategies. Introduction: Roses In The Snow -- Molly Meijer Wertheimer -- Part 1: Making Delicate Images -- Locating Aspasia On The Rhetorical Map / Cheryl Glenn -- On Liberty And Logic: The Collaboration Of Harriet Taylor And John Stuart Mill / Virginia Allen -- Lucie Olbrechts-tyteca's Contribution To The New Rhetoric / Barbara Warnick -- Part 2: A Sampler Of Rhetorical

Author

Molly Meijer Wertheimer, Thomas W. Benson

Publisher

Columbia: University of South Carolina Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781570031724

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Linguistics