Dialectical Rhetoric

by Bruce McComiskey

In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom.

Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical development of linear propositions leading to necessary conclusions, a one-dimensional form that was the counterpart of rhetorics in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874219817
• ISBN13: 9780874219814
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up