Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition

by Steven Mailloux

Book Overview

What are the historical relations among academic disciplines focused on oral and written rhetoric? In Disciplinary Identities, Steven Mailloux examines the formation of English literary studies, speech communication, and composition, explaining how these fields came to be shaped and separated as they are today. In so doing, Mailloux illustrates the interpretive power of a technique he calls rhetorical hermeneutics: his critical history of disciplinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087352974X
• ISBN13: 9780873529747
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher