Monthly Archives: September 2007

Wells, Susan. “Claiming the Archive for Rhetoric and Composition.” Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work. Ed. Gary Olson.   Keywords: Archives, social histories, revisionist history, Robert Connors, Susan Miller, Jacqueline Jones Royster, three gifts.

MacDonald, Susan Peck. Chapter Four, “Colonial New England Social History: The Problematics of Contemporary History Writing.”

Fitzgerald, Kathryn. “A Rediscovered Tradition: European Pedagogy and Composition in Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Normal Schools.” College Composition and Communications, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Dec., 2001), pp. 224-250.   Keywords: Normal schools, Wisconsin, pedagogy, European pedagogy, elitist American universities, Midwestern, 19th century … Continue reading →

“The Politics of Historiography: Octalog.” Rhetoric Review, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Autumn, 1988), pp. 5-49.    Keywords: James Berlin, Victor Vitanza, James Murphy, Robert Connors, Sharon Crowley, Richard Enos, Susan Jarret, Nan Johnson, Jan Swearingen, historiography, histories, histories of rhetoric, … Continue reading →

Hirst, Russel. “The Sermon as Public Discourse: Austin Phelps and the Conservative Homiletic Tradition in Nineteenth Century America.” Oratorical Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Transformations in the Theory and Practice of Rhetoric.  Eds. Gregory Clark and S. Michael Halloran.

White, Hayden. “Foucault Decoded: Notes From Underground.”   Keywords: Foucault, Structuralism, language, The Order of Things (Les Mots and les choses), Vico, tropes, generational aspect of language.

Stygall, Gail. “Resisting Privlege: Basic Writing and Foucault’s Author Function.”

Anderson, Amanda. Chapter Six, “Argument and Ethos.” The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory.  Keywords: Foucault, Habermas, Foucault-Habermas debate, ethos, argument, power, liberalism, democracy, procedural.

Miller, Susan. Textual Carnival: The Politics of Composition. Chapter Five, “The Institution and Composition: Bread and Circuits.” Keywords: Composition, composition director, carnival, sideshow, autonomy, reification, Kantian moral philosophy, budget, English department, monies, Goffman, framing