Invention in Rhetoric and Composition

Janice M. Lauer

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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of positions on these issues in both primary rhetorical texts and secondary interpretations. It presents theoretical disagreements over the nature, purpose, and epistemology of invention and pedagogical debates over such issues as the relative importance of art, talent, imitation, and practice in teaching discourse.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 24 décembre 2003
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602358195
• Langue: English

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Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
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Invention in Rhetoric and Composition
Janice M. Lauer
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In memory of my husband,
David Hutton (1928-1999)


Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction and Overview
Issues in Rhetorical Invention
Differences over the Nature, Purpose, and Epistemology of Rhetorical Invention
Arguments over Inventional Pedagogy
Organization and Scope of the Text
2 Definitions
Classical Terms
Modern Terms
Terms from Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, and Cultural Studies
3 Historical Review: Issues in Rhetorical Invention
Part 1: Theoretical Issues
Greek Views
Interpretations of Sophistic Invention
Interpretations of Plato’s Views of Invention
Inventional Issues in Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Subject Positions
Review: Greek Rhetorical Invention
Roman Views
Invention in Rhetorica ad Herennium
Cicero’s Conceptions of Invention
Inventional Issues in Quintilian’s Rhetoric
Subject Positions
Review: Roman Rhetorical Invention
Inventional Issues in Second Sophistic, Medieval, and Renaissance Rhetorics
Second Sophistic Issues
Inventional Issues in Medieval Rhetoric
Renaissance Conceptions of Invention
Subject Positions
Review: Invention in Second Sophistic, Medieval, and Renaissance Rhetorics
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Discussions of Invention
Eighteenth-Century Invention
Nineteenth-Century Invention
Subject Positions
Review: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Invention
Part II: Pedagogical Issues
Greek Discussions of Inventional Pedagogy
Art (techne)
Sophists
Plato
Aristotle
Roman Discussions of Inventional Pedagogy
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Cicero
Quintilian
Review: Roman Inventional Pedagogy
Inventional Pedagogy in the Second Sophistic and Medieval Periods
Second Sophistic Period
Medieval Period
Inventional Pedagogy from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
Renaissance
Eighteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century Britain
Nineteenth-Century United States
Women’s Rhetorical Education
Current-Traditional Pedagogy
Review: Pedagogy from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century
4 Issues over the Nature, Purpose, and Epistemology of Rhetorical Invention in the Twentieth Century
Interdisciplinary Contexts for the Revival of Invention
Philosophical Studies
Semiotics and Tagmemic Linguistics
Psychological Studies
Literacy Studies
The State of Invention at Mid-Twentieth Century
Awakening Interest in Invention
Early Studies of Invention: Mid-1960s to Mid-1970s
Rhetoric as Epistemic
New Invention Theories in Rhetoric and Composition
Research on Invention
Review: Early Studies of Invention
New and Elaborated Theories of Invention: Mid-1970s to Mid-1980s
Cognitive Invention
Non-Rational Invention, Shaping, Imagining, and Forming
Burkean Invention
More on Classical Invention and Tagmemic Invention
Further Discussions on Rhetoric as Epistemic
Rhetorical Invention as Hermeneutics
Critiques, Cautions, and Rejoinders
Overviews of Inventional Theories
Review: Elaborated Theories of Invention
Diversified Invention: Mid-1980s to the New Millennium
Invention in the Disciplines
Social Construction and Invention
Counterstatements and Socio-Cognitive Invention
Further Cognitive and Creativity Studies
Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, and Invention
Critical Rhetoric
Epistemic Rhetoric, the Third Discussion
Cultural Critique
Invention and Civic Discourse
Feminist Invention
Inventional Diversity
More on Hermeneutics
Review: Diversified Invention
Invention in the New Millennium
Chapter Synopsis
5 Issues over Invention Pedagogies
Issues
The Relative Importance of Four Formative Factors
The Merits of Different Inventional Strategies
The Social Nature of Invention
Invention as Interpretive or Productive
Rhetoric as Constructing or Conveying Knowledge
Issues over Inventional Pedagogies
Prewriting Pedagogy
Pedagogy for Classical Invention
Tagmemic Inventional Instruction
Freewriting
Burkean Invention
Larson’s Heuristics
The Double-Entry Notebook, The Uses of Chaos, and Shaping
Journals
Inquiry Strategies
Problem-Solving Strategies
Invention in Writing Across the Curriculum
Online Inventional Practices
Visual Rhetoric and Invention
Feminist Inventional Practices
Pedagogies of Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, and Postmodernism
Evaluations of Inventional Pedagogies
Chapter Synopsis
6 Glossary
7 Annotated Bibliography
Bibliography and Works Cited
Index to the Print Edition


Foreword
This volume, Invention in Rhetoric and Composition by Janice M. Lauer, launches the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition series. Invention is a fitting topic for the initial volume in this undertaking, for it addresses some of the most basic questions a writer asks: what should I write about? To whom? And why? What materials can I use? Where can I find them? What will move and persuade my readers? How can I even begin to think about what I might write?
These writers’ questions rest on even more fundamental philosophic questions about the nature of writing: What can we as individuals and communities know and claim? How do we know things and how might we share that knowledge with others? How can we represent what we know and believe and how does representation realize or transform our beliefs and knowledge?
Invention also raises the most practical classroom questions: How can we help our students find subjects they want to write about, topics on which they will have much to say, and that will lead others in the classroom to think more deeply? How can we help our students locate the fundamental impulses to communicate important messages to others through writing?
Because invention raises such fundamental problems of theory and practice,