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Understanding the Ideological Force of Graduate Application Materials: A Rhetorical Genre Study of Personal Statement Prompts Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Olalekan T. Adepoju, Joseph E. Sharp
This study draws on Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) to examine the role of personal statement prompts in promoting or hindering the effectiveness of holistic review in graduate applications. Our ana...
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A Manual Training Method as Literate Practice: Rhetorics of the Sloyd Training School for Teachers, 1904-1914 Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Laura Proszak
The Sloyd Training School, an early twentieth-century private school for teachers in Boston, attempted to legitimize the Sloyd method of handiwork. Specifically, its Alumni Association’s publicatio...
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Latin Literature and Roman Rhetoric … and Beyond: A Symbiotic Relationship Re-examined Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Richard Leo Enos
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Monster Metaphors: When Rhetoric Runs Amok Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Zilong Zhong
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Post-Rhetoric: A Rhetorical Profile of the Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Zhaozhe Wang
The generative AI chatbot, as an artificial rhetorical agent participating in the invention and circulation of public discourse, shakes the foundations of rhetorical tenets such as agency, ethos, c...
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“There is Not One Shred of Evidence That [Being Trans] is Not a Divine Gift”: Grace and Lace Letter and the Rhetorical Construction of an Evangelical Transfeminine Identity Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 N. Claire Jackson, Grace Katherine Berlew
Grace and Lace Letter was a newsletter by and for transfeminine evangelicals in the 1990s. This article explores the rhetorical approaches contributors used to bridge these seemingly contradictory ...
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Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden: Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Christian Taylor
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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2023 Theresa J. Enos 25th Anniversary Award Recipient Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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Interrupting Identity: Zionism and the Palestinian Other Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Brooke Hotez
Featuring narrative argument in Jewish dissent for Palestinians rights, this article examines identity reconstitution and the attunement to being in relationship with the foreign other. The author ...
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Maps as Rhetorical Tools of Colonial Power and Alternative Cartographies: The Americas’ Cartographic Invention Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Eda Özyeşilpınar
This essay focuses on two historical maps as rhetorical artifacts: The Piri Reis Map of 1513 produced by the Turkish admiral Piri Reis in 1513, the Reis map, and the Map of the Island of Cuba and S...
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Rhetorical Education in Complicated Times: Poly-logical Invention and Written Discourse for the 21st Century University Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Justin K. Rademaekers
Dialogism and dialectical knowledge making have long subtended theories of written discourse and therefore the design of rhetoric and writing curricula. As universities move toward interdisciplinar...
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Rhetoric Re-View: Cicero’s De Senectute, or On Old Age Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Richard Leo Enos
Rhetoric Re-View was established under the founding editorship of Theresa J. Enos and has been a feature of Rhetoric Review for over twenty-five years. The objective of Rhetoric Re-View is to offer...
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Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Helen J. Burgess
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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Conspiracy Theories, Jouissance, and the Aristotelian Enthymeme Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Andrew Ridgeway
This article examines the rhetoric of Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump through a psychoanalytic reading of the Aristotelian enthymeme to highlight how conspiracy theories are underwritten by an abse...
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The Phantom of Pure Ethos Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Nathan R. Wagner
Ethos is an inherent characteristic of persuasion in commonplace scenarios. The acceptance of everyday communicative practices compels belief and trust in language usage, often without question of ...
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The Civic Education of Ignacio Bonillas: Revising Ambient Notions of Citizenship in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Charles McMartin
This article details the experiences of Ignacio Bonillas, one of the first Mexican students to graduate from Arizona’s territorial schools and explicates how those experiences impacted his percepti...
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Paulo Freire’s Situação-limite Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Lucas Rossi Corcoran
I challenge an “English only” view of Paulo Freire in U.S. scholarship, arguing that an exclusive reading of the 1970 Myra Bergman Ramos English translation masks the dialogic and allusive dimensio...
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Activist Orientations: Wayfinding, Writing, and How Alumni Effect Change in the World Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Karen Lunsford, Carl Whithaus, Jonathan Alexander
This article examines what activism looks like in an age of “deep writing.” As alumni find their ways through multiple domains of life after graduation, what role does writing play in helping them ...
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(Re)Locating the Rhetorical Commonplaces of Failure and Risk-Taking Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Carolyn Commer, Ana Cooke, Justin Mando, Alexis Teagarden
We argue that intellectual risk-taking offers unacknowledged potential for the writing classroom. But in order to incorporate intellectual risk into the RCWS classroom, we need a theory of its role...
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Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Hua Zhu
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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The Living from the Dead: Disaffirming Biopolitics Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Brooke Covington
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Polyvalent Practices and Heteropraxis as Heuristic: A Survey of Doctoral Examination Processes in Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Ryan Michael Murphy
While scholarship in rhetoric and composition has deliberated its disciplinary identity, we do not yet have a current account of how pluralistic approaches to curriculum at the doctoral level profe...
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Public Memory, Affect, and the Battle of Culloden: The Creation of Shared Emotional Memory through Two Exhibits at the Culloden Visitor Centre Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Valerie Lynn Schrader
This essay applies Wood’s process model of emotional memory synchronization to better understand how public memory of the Battle of Culloden, an integral event in Scottish history, is created throu...
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Identifying Specific Arguments in Discussion Sections of Science Research Articles: Making the Case for New Knowledge Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Michael Carter
Discussion sections of research articles are important because they are where researchers make claims for advancing knowledge in their fields. There has been a growing interest in research articles...
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There Went the Neighborhood: Spatial Rhetoric, Spatial Occupation, Regendering and Forgetting in Mid-Century Detroit Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Liz Rohan
This essay shows the rhetorical and material process of regendering and forgetting that accompanied the downsizing and tearing down of U.S. progressive-era settlement homes founded by female matern...
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Analog to Digital and Back Again: The Rhetoric of Graffiti Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jonathan Marine
While current approaches to theorizing rhetorical circulation often designate digital rhetorics as their object of study, this designation unintentionally closes off rhetorical inquiry. Analog, mat...
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Engaging Museums: Rhetorical Education and Social Justice Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Isaac James Richards
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Visual Rhetorics of Communist Romania: Life Under the Totalitarian Gaze Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Christene d’Anca
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Proleptic Logics in Media Coverage of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Carolyn Eckert, Sara Doody, Sarah Forst, Brad Mehlenbacher
The rhetorical figure of speech called prolepsis, describing a presaging of time and events to come, commonly appears in environmental communication and importantly frames the possibilities for act...
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Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kat Williams
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Reclaiming Malintzin: Epideictic Practices of a Chicana Rhetoric Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Miriam L Fernandez
This article analyzes the epideictic practices Chicana rhetors use to reclaim the figure of Malintzin, a woman cast as a promiscuous traitor for her role in the Spanish conquest. Since the figure o...
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Imagining Protection from Domestic Gun Violence Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Craig Rood
This essay rhetorically analyzes stories about domestic gun violence from Everytown for Gun Safety’s website, “Moments That Survive.” These everyday writers challenge America’s dominant narrative o...
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The Rhetorical Influence of Contemporary Evangélicas Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Bethany Mannon
This essay uses a cultural rhetoric framework to analyze Hermanas: Deepening our Identity and Growing Our Influence (2019), a multi-authored book by evangelical Latinas in the U.S. The distinct sto...
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What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of … Well … Us? A Response to Richard Leo Enos about the Possibilities for a 21st Century Rhetorical Education Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Ryan Skinnell
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Drew Holladay
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2023)
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Wise (Teen) Anger on Twitter: Greta Thunberg Uses “Bio Warfare” to Reshape Oppressive Anger Norms Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Britt Starr
Abstract “Bio warfare” describes a digital rhetorical tactic used by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg to challenge oppressive anger norms and assert a feminist paradigm that sees sometimes-angry teen girl activists as credible, rational rhetors. On the surface, the rhetorical strategy is simple: Thunberg copy/pastes world leaders’ disparaging language into her 160-character Twitter bio. Yet, in
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“Crusaders on a Quest for Democracy”: Addie W. Hunton and Kathryn M. Johnson’s Black Civic Pedagogy Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 David Gold
Abstract This article examines Hunton and Johnson’s Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces, which recounts their WWI YMCA service in France supporting Black troops. TCW exemplifies a long tradition of Black civic pedagogy, drawing on prophetic and empirical strategies to teach audiences that Black experience and racial justice are foundational to American democracy. Deploying the
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“One Among Many”: Piety Reconstruction in 12-Step Recovery Groups Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Michelle Cowan
Abstract This article applies Kenneth Burke’s concept of piety to an evaluation of nine recovery stories from members of four different 12-step fellowships. In this theoretical context, recovery can be explained as a process of adopting and remaking pious systems. All nine recovery stories follow a similar pattern: (1) identifying difference and similarity in the community; (2) letting go of old pieties;
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Toward a Rhetorical Theory of the Face: Algorithmic Inequalities and Biometric Masks as Material Protest Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 David R. Gruber
Abstract Despite calls to give greater attention to bodies and infrastructures, and despite the development of facial recognition software and face replacement apps, not to mention medical face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic and a long history of political faces in the news, rhetoric has not directly nor adequately dealt with the face. I offer a new materialist rhetorical theory of the face, drawing
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Why Has America Produced so Few Eloquent Orators in Recent Years? The Ancient Roman Marcus Tullius Cicero Gives Us the Answer and the Remedy Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Richard Leo Enos
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Histories of Ethos: World Perspectives on Rhetoric. Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Rira Zamani
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Rhetoric Re-View: The Rhetorical Tradition and Modern Writing Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Richard Leo Enos
Abstract Rhetoric Re-View was established under the founding editorship of Theresa J. Enos and has been a feature of Rhetoric Review for over twenty-five years. The objective of Rhetoric Re-View is to offer review essays of prominent works that have made an impact on rhetoric. Reviewers evaluate the merits of established works, discussing their past and present contributions. The intent is to provide
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Gestures of Concern Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Catherine Chaput
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Rearticulating “Crisis” and the U.S.-Mexico Border Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Maclain Scott
Abstract This article examines how “crisis” declarations resonate within and reinforce a national imaginary that commonly configures the U.S.-Mexico border as under threat by migrants. Drawing on Karen Barad, the author approaches crisis declarations as phenomena produced via their entanglement with, and exclusion of, particular configurations of the border, a process that contributes to the ongoing
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Trivialization and Disembodiment of the Black Lives Matter Movement through the Hashtag #BlackLinesMatter Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Ann N. Amicucci
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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State-Run Martial Arts Institutions: The Rhetorical (Re)Inventions of Taekwondo Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Spencer Bennington
Abstract Martial arts organizations can become Foucaultian institutions that discipline and punish practitioner bodies to enact ideologies of violence. In this article, I describe how these institutions function by examining the rhetorical history of one specific martial art, Taekwondo. My analysis extends Hawhee’s examination of Ancient Greek athletics to include modern martial bodies and the associated
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Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jazzie Marie Terrell
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Michael J. Benjamin
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Masked Meanings: COVID-19 and the Subversion of Stasis Hierarchy Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Genevieve Gordon, Ben Wetherbee
Abstract Partisan rhetoric surrounding COVID-era face-masking has reshuffled traditional stasis hierarchy, allowing the middle stases of definition and quality, which emphasize epideictic motives of cultural affirmation, to supersede conjectural questions of medical efficacy. Viral images positioning masks as metonymic approximations of “authoritarianicity” and government overreach illustrate how right-wing
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Epideictic Metaphor: Uncovering Values and Celebrating Dissonance Through a Reframing of Voice Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Brigitte Mussack
Abstract This article provides a framework for analyzing metaphor as epideictic rhetoric, accounting for the persistence of key disciplinary metaphors. It examines the metaphor of voice across distinct theoretical conversations as an example of epideictic metaphor. Voice’s epideictic function allows it to reconceptualize the shared value of power as it celebrates this value by stitching and unstitching
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Students’ Social Media Disclosures: Reconsidering the Rhetorics of Whistleblowing Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Sarah Riddick
Abstract This article examines how whistleblowing evolves as a rhetorical genre alongside emergent media. By analyzing three events involving student disclosures on social media, this article argues that students’ social media communication can qualify as whistleblowing, just as whistleblowing can qualify as rhetoric. Notably, whistleblowing’s current conventions, which are heavily based in business
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Job Market Mentoring in Rhetoric and Composition and Technical Communication Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Zarah C. Moeggenberg
Abstract Based on survey responses from eighty-five scholars on the job market from 2013 and 2019, this article examines mentoring for the job market in rhetoric and composition and technical communication. Respondents indicate needs for job market mentoring; more transparency about the job market itself; and more extensive, integrated support throughout graduate programs. The article concludes with
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The Impact of the Literate Revolution on Orality in Ancient Athens: A Synthesis Essay on Rhetorical Research with Commentary Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Richard Leo Enos
Abstract The impact of written communication in ancient Athens, particularly the social consequences of literacy on an oral culture, has been a subject of keen interest among rhetoricians. This essay synthesizes current research on the impact of literacy in ancient Athens from a rhetorical vector. One of the principal observations discussed in this review of current research is that the alphabetic
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Women’s Ways of Making Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Sheri Rysdam
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J. Trump Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Eryn Johnson
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico: Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Lyndsey Lepovitz
Published in Rhetoric Review (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Turning Tricks in Athens Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 T Passwater
Abstract This paper examines Aeschines’s speech Against Timarchus to offer frameworks for rhetoric to examine the historical particularities of sex work. Drawing on feminist and queer rhetorics, this paper rereads Against Timarchus as well as scholarly receptions of the speech to discuss how Timarchus has been positioned outside definitions of rhetoric in ways that highlight the instability of definitions
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Unmaking Colonial Fictions: Cherríe Moraga’s Rhetorics of Fragmentation and Semi-ness Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Loretta Victoria Ramirez
Abstract Throughout Cherríe Moraga’s publications (1979 to present), we see her writings pivot from expressions of cohesive oneness to articulations of generative fragmentation. Moraga’s emerged attention to metaphorical woundedness participates in Chicanx rhetorics of fragmentation, which undermines colonial fictions that the self is whole and unified. Such rhetoric emphasizes potentials of semi-ness
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Ethos, Hospitality, and the Pursuit of Rhetorical Healing: How Three Decolonial Cookbooks Reconstitute Cultural Identity through Ancestral Foodways Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Brita M. Thielen
Abstract This article participates in contemporary conversations about ethos by extending conceptions of ethos as dwelling places” or ecologies” to ethos as hospitality. Such extension involves attending to how three recent decolonial cookbook authors construct stable textual identities and ethos using rhetorics of healing, constitutive rhetoric, and utopian rhetoric. The cookbooks under analysis–Afro-Vegan
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Food, Feminist Rhetorical Studies, and Conservative Women: The Case of Elizabeth David Rhetoric Review (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Richard Vytniorgu
Abstract This article argues for the importance of British food writer Elizabeth David (1913-1992) in questioning the centrality of power in feminist rhetorical studies and thereby furthering our capacity to understand the diversity of conservative women and their rhetorical projects. The article analyzes David’s pathos in her landmark volume of gastronomical essays, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine