Invention as a Social ACT

by Karen Burke LeFevre

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809313286
• ISBN13: 9780809313280
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"