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Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric
Susan Miller
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Description for Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric
Paperback. Challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age onwards. Drawing not just on traditional rhetorical works, but also on texts from philosophy and literature, this book expands the body of works to be considered in the study of rhetoric. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric. This groundbreaking volume makes a case for historical rhetoric as disbursed, formal and informal lessons in persuasion that are codified as crafts that mediate between what is known and unknown in particular rhetorical situations. Traditional, unified histories of rhetoric ... Read more
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric. This groundbreaking volume makes a case for historical rhetoric as disbursed, formal and informal lessons in persuasion that are codified as crafts that mediate between what is known and unknown in particular rhetorical situations. Traditional, unified histories of rhetoric ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809327881
SKU
V9780809327881
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About Susan Miller
Susan Miller, a professor of English and a faculty member in the University Writing Program at the University of Utah, teaches the history and theory of rhetoric and composition. She is the author of Writing: Process and Product, Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer, Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition, and Assuming the Positions: Cultural ... Read more
Reviews for Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric
This book, and the research that supports it, has the potential to change the way we understand and study rhetoric. - Gregory Clark, Brigham Young University ""This is Susan Miller's magnum opus. It will greatly expand traditional notions of what it is that we look at when we say we're looking at rhetoric."" - Patricia Harkin, University of Illinois at ... Read more