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Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges
Southern Illinois University Press, 1984 eISBN: 978-0-8093-8652-9 | Paper: 978-0-8093-1166-8 Library of Congress Classification PE1405.U6B47 1984 Dewey Decimal Classification 808.042071173
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that “no rhetoric—not Plato’s or Aristotle’s or Quintilian’s or Perelman’s—is permanent.” At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing various views of reality expressed through a rhetoric. Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting elements: “reality, writer or speaker, audience, and language.” As emphasis shifts from one element to another, or as the interaction between elements changes, or as the definitions of the elements change, rhetoric changes. This alters prevailing views on such important questions as what is appearance, what is reality. In this interpretive study Berlin classifies the three 19th-century rhetorics as classical, psychological-epistemological, and romantic, a uniquely American development growing out of the transcendental movement. In each case studying the rhetoric provides insight into society and the beliefs of the people. See other books on: Academic writing | Berlin, James A. | Education, Higher | English language | Writing Instruction See other titles from Southern Illinois University Press |
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Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8652-9
Paper: 978-0-8093-1166-8
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8652-9
Paper: 978-0-8093-1166-8
Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that “no rhetoric—not Plato’s or Aristotle’s or Quintilian’s or Perelman’s—is permanent.” At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing various views of reality expressed through a rhetoric.
Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting elements: “reality, writer or speaker, audience, and language.” As emphasis shifts from one element to another, or as the interaction between elements changes, or as the definitions of the elements change, rhetoric changes. This alters prevailing views on such important questions as what is appearance, what is reality.
In this interpretive study Berlin classifies the three 19th-century rhetorics as classical, psychological-epistemological, and romantic, a uniquely American development growing out of the transcendental movement. In each case studying the rhetoric provides insight into society and the beliefs of the people.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
