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The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention. Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act, in which individuals interact dialectically with society and culture in distinctive ways. Even when the primary agent of invent
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- Author
- Karen Burke LeFevre; Conference on College Composition and Communication (U.S.)
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, P.O. Box 3697, Carbondale, IL 62901 ($8.50)
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809390854
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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