ABSTRACT

Fifty Years of Rhetoric Society Quarterly: Selected Readings, 1968-2018 celebrates the semicentennial of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, bringing together the most influential essays included in the journal over the past fifty years. Assessed by members of the Rhetoric Society of America, this collection provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with a balanced perspective on rhetorical theory and practice from scholars in both communication studies and rhetoric and writing studies. The volume covers a range of themes, from the history of rhetorical studies, writing and speaking pedagogy, and feminism, to the work of Kenneth Burke, the rhetoric of science, and rhetorical agency.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

RSQ’s Greatest Hits!

part I|29 pages

The Early Years (1968–1989)

chapter 3|8 pages

Composition Then and Now*

chapter 4|8 pages

General Specialists

Fifty Years Later

part II|72 pages

The Nineties (1990–1999)

chapter 6|28 pages

Kenneth Burke Among the Moderns

Counter-Statement as Counter Statement 1

chapter 7|12 pages

Rhetorical Criticism of Public Discourse on the Internet

Theoretical Implications

chapter 8|19 pages

Aristotle on Epideictic

The Formation of Public Morality

part III|130 pages

The Naughts (2000–2009)

chapter 9|12 pages

Feminist Methods of Research in the History of Rhetoric

What Difference Do They Make?

chapter 11|18 pages

Unframing Models of Public Distribution 1

From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies

chapter 13|20 pages

Between Archive and Participation

Public Memory in a Digital Age

chapter 14|22 pages

Identification

Burke and Freud on Who You Are

part IV|114 pages

RSQ Lately (2010–Present)

chapter 15|29 pages

“This Is Your Brain on Rhetoric”

Research Directions for Neurorhetorics

chapter 16|25 pages

The Mock Rock Topos

chapter 18|21 pages

Deep Ambivalence and Wild Objects

Toward a Strange Environmental Rhetoric

chapter 19|14 pages

Exigencies for RSQ

An Afterword