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"This volume considers authors, pedagogical or historical movements, and specific articles or books in the field of rhetoric and composition that merit attention or reconsideration. The texts chosen show how the field has developed and how neglected texts might be revalued in the light of current developments"-- Provided by publisher.

"Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric. A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical tradition itself. Authors discussed include not only twentieth-century American compositionists but also a linguist, a poet, a philosopher, a painter, a Renaissance rhetorician, and a nineteenth-century pioneer of comics; the collection also features some less studied works by authors who remain well known. These texts will give rise to new conversations about current ideas in composition and rhetoric. This volume contains discussion of the following authors and titles: Judah Messer Leon, The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow, Angel DeCora, Sterling Andrus Leonard, English Composition as a Social Problem, Rodolphe Topffer, William James, Kenneth Burke, Adrienne Rich, Ann E. Berthoff, John Mohawk, "Western Peoples, Natural Peoples," William Vande Kopple, William Irmscher, Beat Not the Poor Desk, Walter J. Ong, Geneva Smitherman, Thomas Zebroski, Linda Brodkey, Craig S. Womack, Deborah Cameron, James Slevin, Marilyn Sternglass, and William E. Coles, Jr"-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Reviving the lost text / Deborah H. Holdstein

The early twentieth century and before. Isaac Rabinowitz's translation and critical edition of Judah Messer Leon's The book of the honeycomb's flow / Jim Ridolfo

A rhetoric of pen and brush / Anne Ruggles Gere

Understanding 'English composition as a social problem': finding Sterling Andrus Leonard in rhetoric and composition / Morris Young

Rodolphe Topffer and the histories of rhetoric / Sergio C. Figueiredo

Talking teachers into motion: rereading William James's Talks to teachers / Kurt Spellmeyer

The mid-twentieth century. A composition commons: the Stanford language arts investigation, 1937-1939 / Jessica Yood

Toward social transformation: renewing the Burkean theory of identification / Mary C. Carruth

College Composition and Communication, volume 15, 1964: afterglow, childhood, obituary? / Douglas Hesse

The 1970s. On recovering Adrienne Rich's "Teaching language in open admissions" / Howard Tinberg

"A fresh progression in thought and expression": remembering 'The plural I', by William E. Coles, Jr. / Peter Wayne Moe and David Bartholomae

Reappraising Course X / Rebecca Day Babcock

The power of mutable structures: a return to Ann E. Berthoff's Forming, thinking, writing / Paige Davis Arrington

Humanizing and decolonizing composition: John Mohawk's "Western peoples, natural peoples" / Rachel B. Griffis

On reading Roger Sale's On writing / John Schilb

1980-1992. International linguistics research and the legacy of Frederic Francois / Tiane K. Donahue

Before wireless networks: foundational works in computers and writing / Douglas Eyman

William J. Vande Kopple and syntactic subjects / Philip Eubanks

Possibilities rather than certainties: William Irmscher's "Finding a comfortable identity" / Christine Farris

New literacies and new coherencies: the relevance of Betty Bamberg's "What makes a text coherent?" / Larry Beason

Enduring value: the case for 'Beat not the poor desk' / Eric J. Sterling

How the twenty-first century changed Ira Shor's Critical teaching and everyday life / Michael Bernard-Donals

Lingering questions from Lynn Quitman Troyka's "Defining basic writing in context" / Lynn Reid

"Bound to sound": reaffirming Walter J. Ong / Clint Bryan

Geneva Smitherman's "Toward a national public policy on language" / Staci M. Perryman-Clark

After 1992. The importance of being readers reading in Robert P. Yagelski's Writing as a way of being / Asao B. Inoue

Becoming which composition? James Thomas Zebroski's "Toward a theory of theory for composition studies" / Julie Jung

Me, myself, and all of us: revisiting Linda Brodkey's "Writing on the bias" / Jonathan Alexander

Vernacular scholarship and Craig S. Womack's Red on red: Native American literary separatism / Stephen Donatelli

Rediscovering Deborah Cameron's Verbal hygiene / Pegeen Reichert Powell

The intellectual work of composition: James F. Slevin's Introducing English / Bruce Horner

The radicalism of Marilyn Sternglass / Joseph Harris.

English language > Rhetoric.

English language > Rhetoric.