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ERIC Number: EJ497432
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-9322
The Recovery of Rhetoric as "Methodeutic": A Renaissance of Discourse in a Postmodern Age.
Boswell, Grant
Composition Studies/Freshman English News, v22 n2 p99-109 Fall 1994
Describes the crisis of the humanities at the present time as an effect of the demise of the traditional, modern concept of the subject or self. Provides an analysis of views of the postmodern subject, as described by theorists such as Gianni Vattimo and Charles Pierce, and how these views might help redefine rhetoric in a postmodern age. (HB)
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Higher Education, Postmodernism, Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Self Concept, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Composition Theory