The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric

by Sharon Crowley

In this first sustained critique of current-traditional rhetorical theory, Sharon Crowley uses a postmodern, deconstructive reading to reexamine the historical development of current-traditional rhetoric. She identifies it (as well as the British new rhetoric from which it developed) as a philosophy of language use that posits universal principles of mind and discourse. Crowley argues that these philosophies are not appropriate bases for the construction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809330016
• ISBN13: 9780809330010
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"