This essay questions the digital humanities' dependence on interpretation and critique as strategies for reading and responding to texts. Instead, the essay proposes suggestion as a digital rhetorical practice, one that does not replace hermeneutics, but instead offers alternative ways to respond to texts. The essay uses the Occupy movement as an…

In 1992, more than 20 artists showcased their work in a traveling exhibit, "Chicano Codex: Encountering Art of the Americas." Each piece creatively resembled Mesoamerican amoxtli, the pictographic "codex books" that were destroyed by European combatants as a strategy for subjugating indigenous minds. Spain's campaign of…

The collection of articles in featured in the special issue of the "College English" focus on the virtues of rhetorical analysis in understanding global concerns. In this article, the author offers her views about these articles. The author contends that neither feminism nor rhetorical analysis should be considered mere supplements in the study of…

In this essay, the author examines the digital circulations of representations of one Afghan women's rights organization--the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)--to demonstrate the importance of a global and digital field for feminist rhetorical analysis. Specifically, this analysis traces how women's self-representations are…

In this article, the author argues that Emerson repudiated the formalism of nineteenth century belletristic, mechanistic, reason-centered, American rhetoric influenced by Hugh Blair. Instead Emerson promoted a rhetoric with imagination at its center, which calls for civic duty. (Contains 33 notes.)

In this article, the author investigates the circulation and appropriation of representations of women in public policy. The author effectively mobilizes the metaphor of the network to examine the discursive intersections and transnational links between U.S. welfare programs and the World Bank gender mainstreaming policies. Her analysis reveals…

When scholars write about their research in writing programs' archives, they often face the ethical question of whether to name the administrators who were involved in documents. The author identifies and provides examples of three basic orientations to this issue, which he calls overt-historical, covert-qualitative, and hybrid-institutional.…

The author examines how chronotopes--a term M. M. Bakhtin used to describe space-time relationships in literature--also characterize rhetorical arguments. She uses a case study of a series of debates about genetically modified foods (GMFs) in Canada to illustrate how chronotopes shape arguments along ideological lines. In particular, she suggests…

Examines contemporary theories of discourse production and analysis, noting that most are based on a classical paradigm of language conventions. Argues that language refutes this type of formalization. Discusses the ramifications of this perception for the discipline of rhetoric. (MM)

Discusses the critical paradigms that have shaped thinking about lyric poetry, dominated by the prose/lyric antithesis. Argues that these antitheses, based on Aristotle's dismissal of versification as the defining feature of poetic discourse, are unnecessary, and that the argumentative, dramatic, expressive, and prosodic motives need not be…

Discusses how rhetorical schemes, such as the anaphora, retain their traditional definitions and usages, but are also structural and stylistic qualities extending beyond sentences to paragraphs, verses, acts, chapters, and lives. Discusses the terms "oratio,""anaphora," and "topoi." (EL)

Explores how Edmund Burke's discourse on the sublime helps illuminate attacks on the vulgarization of culture (as typified by Allan Bloom), both for the presumedly "vulgar" reader and for the champions of high culture. (MG)

Investigates the interrelation of the histories of rhetoric and literary studies by examining in detail the writings of Victorian sage Walter Pater. (SR)

Identifies dangers in applying metaphors from one context to another. Asserts the necessity for feminist critical theorists to examine metaphor's status in their own discourse. Proposes a "therapeutic" investigation of metaphor as part of the power structure. Suggests locating a feminist investigation of metaphors in a vigilant awareness…

Argues that Richard Whately was a significant force in shaping the model for teaching writing that has been dominant in the last 90 years. (Author/RL)