Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges

by James A. Berlin and Professor James A. Berlin

Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that "no rhetoric--not Plato's or Aris­totle's or Quintilian's or Perelman's--is permanent." At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing vari­ous views of reality expressed through a rhetoric.

Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809311666
• ISBN13: 9780809311668
• Release Date: April 1984
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 2.0" x 11.3"