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 examine 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, not a rhetorical theory, and she argues that its use as such has led to a misrepresentation of invention.

Crowley contends that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809316153
• ISBN13: 9780809316151
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"