First comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of rhetoric across the disciplines from antiquity to the twentieth century. Offers sixty commissioned chapters by worldwide leading experts, well as coverage of more than thirty academic disciplines and cultural fields. Tho…
One of the most remarkable trends in modern scholarship in the humanities has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric. On the one hand, modern methods of textual and historical analysis-from feminism and semiotics to historicism and psych…
Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from anc…
Introduction : toward an analytic conception of metanoia -- Taking it back : the history of rhetorical metanoia in the classical tradition and beyond -- Crucifying the old man : Christian metanoic testimony and the changing of the heart -- Finding yourself : metanoia, epistrophe…
"Examines the concept of metanoia as both a rhetorical figure of speech and a critical tool for the analysis of self-reinventions of all kinds, including conversions related to race, sex, religion, and politics"--
The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people writ…
