“Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric” James Berlin
Berlin reminds us that rhetoric is a product of the social, economic, and political conditions of specific historical moments; consequently, revisionary historians such as himself, constantly work to remind us that the history of rhetoric cannot be conceived as developing through a unified, coherent, and univocal set of texts [...]
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May 23, 2007
“Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric” James Berlin
September 17, 2006
2nd Half–RHETORIC AND REALITY–Berlin
Long Summary: Might contain some plagarism (hah!)
In this section of Rhetoric and Reality in which James Berlin describes the changes in the field of Composition and Rhetoric from 1940-1974, Berlin highlights the influences the general education and general semantics movements had on the rise of communication courses, the revival and renaissance of rhetoric, and [...]
