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RCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric

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    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2020 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricRCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2020, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2020 convention in Seattle. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Noemi Marin deposited Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricRCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    The Romanian political scene at the end of 1989 calls for a critical rhetorical perspective to understand how totalitarian politics clash with revolutionary changes and how communist space, so ambitiously crafted to cover an entire country’s public sphere, influences, if at all, a free(d) discourse on national unity. Examining official discourse o…[Read more]

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    Noemi Marin created the doc Rhetorical Crossings of 1989: Communist Space, Arguments by Definition, and Discourse of National Identity Twenty-Five Years Later in the group Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricRCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

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    Danizete Martínez started the topic CFP: Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story in the discussion Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricHistory and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago

    Dear Colleagues:

    Please consider submitting a proposal.

    Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story

    The editors of this collection invite proposals for essays that address issues of justice and equity that emerge through the telling, writing, and remembering of the immigrant story in the writing classroom. In particular, we invite papers…[Read more]

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    Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricRCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago

    The historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams

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    Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Delegate Assembly Election: Call for Membership Suggestions in the discussion Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricHistory and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    Since the term of this forum’s current Delegate Assembly representative is scheduled to end in January 2018, the election of a new delegate will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will begin to consider nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive com…[Read more]

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    Alex Mueller deposited Social Networking in the Scriptorium in the group Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricRCWS History and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This course examines the literary, cultural, and material life of written correspondence from the poetic epistle to the snarky tweet. And while we will read and analyze epistolary literature (both fiction and nonfiction) such as Ovid’s Heroides, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and
    Alice Walker’s A Color Purple, we focus our efforts on “real” letters o…[Read more]

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    Henry Bowles started the topic CFP: "Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind" (ACLA 2017) in the discussion Group logo of RCWS History and Theory of RhetoricHistory and Theory of Rhetoric on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months ago

    “Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

    Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysis, and…[Read more]

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