Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric
Jill McCracken
Language: English
Pages: 285
ISBN: B001QA4TBY
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In this collection of original essays, editors Theresa Enos and Keith D. Miller join their contributors--a veritable "who's who" in composition scholarship--in seeking to illuminate and complicate many of the tensions present in the field of rhetoric and composition. The contributions included here emphasize key issues in past and present work, setting the stage for future thought and study. The book also honors the late Jim Corder, a major figure in the development of the rhetoric and composition discipline. In the spirit of Corder's unfinished work, the contributors to this volume absorb, probe, stretch, redefine, and interrogate classical, modern, and postmodern rhetorics--and challenge their limitations.
Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric will be of interest to scholars, teachers, and students in rhetoric and composition, English, and communication studies. Offering a provocative discussion of postprocess composition theories and pedagogies and postmodern rhetorics, as well as the first thorough consideration of Jim Corder's contributions, this work is certain to influence the course of future study and research.
Following the German theologian Paul Tillich, Noddings treats the “anxiety of guilt” as ontological and, thus, as an ineluctable fact of human existence: Excepting perhaps saints and martyrs, we must each at times bear the anxious, burdensome guilt of uncaring. And not only is the risk of guilt “present in all caring…its likelihood is greater in caring that is sustained over time” (39). Given the resolute openness of his earlier, heroic theory, it is not surprising that Corder’s later writing
of presenting scholarly argument as an overwhelming, watertight display of knowledge, Corder argues indirectly through the following strategies: Circling Although Corder never mentions modern Spanish philosophy, Jose Ortega y Gasset’s statement of philosophical strategy also articulates one of Corder’s rhetorical tactics: [W]e will move steadily ahead toward a goal which I will not now spell out because it would not yet be understood. We will go moving toward it in concentric circles…. The great
audience that needed basic education, but advancing an argument foreign to that audience’s values and beyond what a reader with only the basics could follow. Not, of course, that Uses is arcane or unduly complex; it is a graceful and generous book, but, like all other worthwhile books, one must have some preparation and background to understand it. Corder argues that “in the culture-view the necessity of invention has been dismissed in favor of spontaneity and simultaneity, expectations out of
returns to Oklahoma for a PhD in restoration and eighteenth-century English literature. He traveled on, in 1958, to Texas Christian University (TCU) where he spent his academic life. Teaching, writing, administering; teaching, writing, engaging in the study of rhetoric. And, in fact, all his scholarly essays invite us to join him in this, his late-adopted but clearly beloved course of study. THE CORDERIAN APPEAL I never met Jim Corder, but I feel a strong affinity for his work on several levels.1
situation permitted it, or demanded it. With the subsequent rising of the American middle class, however, the practice of civility was not as closely identified with morality as it had been but was becoming separated from ethics, “taking on its modern meaning of a generalized pattern of behavior designed to lubricate social discourse” (Schlesinger 65). To some people fixed social rules have appeared a system of hypocrisy; to some, heartless formality; to others, an invidious expression of class