Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reviving the Lost Text, by Deborah H. Holdstein

Part One: 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, by Jim Ridolfo
A Rhetoric of Pen and Brush, by Anne Ruggles Gere
Understanding English Composition as a Social Problem: Finding Sterling Andrus Leonard in Rhetoric and Composition, by Morris Young
Rodolphe Töpffer and the Histories of Rhetoric, by Sergio C. Figueiredo
Talking Teachers into Motion: Rereading William James's Talks to Teachers, by Kurt Spellmeyer

Part Two: The Mid?Twentieth Century
A Composition Commons: The Stanford Language Arts Investigation, 1937?1939, by Jessica Yood
Toward Social Transformation: Renewing the Burkean Theory of Identification, by Mary C. Carruth
College Composition and Communication, Volume 15, 1964: Afterglow, Childhood, Obituary?, by Douglas Hesse

Part Three: The 1970s
On Recovering Adrienne Rich's "Teaching Language in Open Admissions," by Howard Tinberg
"A Fresh Progression in Thought and Expression": Remembering The Plural I, by William E. Coles, Jr., by Peter Wayne Moe and David Bartholomae
Reappraising Course X, by Rebecca Day Babcock
The Power of Mutable Structures: A Return to Ann E. Berthoff's Forming/Thinking/Writing, by Paige Davis Arrington
Humanizing and Decolonizing Composition: John Mohawk's "Western Peoples, Natural Peoples," by Rachel B. Griffis
On Reading Roger Sale's On Writing, by John Schilb

Part Four: 1980?1992
International Linguistics Research and the Legacy of Frédéric François, by Tiane K. Donahue
Before Wireless Networks: Foundational Works in Computers and Writing, by Douglas Eyman
William J. Vande Kopple and Syntactic Subjects, by Philip Eubanks
Possibilities Rather Than Certainties: William Irmscher's "Finding a Comfortable Identity," by Christine Farris
New Literacies and New Coherencies: The Relevance of Betty Bamberg's "What Makes a Text Coherent?," by Larry Beason
Enduring Value: The Case for Beat Not the Poor Desk, by Eric J. Sterling
How the Twenty-First Century Changed Ira Shor's Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, by Michael Bernard-Donals
Lingering Questions from Lynn Quitman Troyka's "Defining Basic Writing in Context," by Lynn Reid
"Bound to Sound": Reaffirming Walter J. Ong, by Clint Bryan
Geneva Smitherman's "Toward a National Public Policy on Language," by Staci M. Perryman-Clark

Part Five: After 1992
The Importance of Being Readers Reading in Robert P. Yagelski's Writing as a Way of Being, by Asao B. Inoue
Becoming Which Composition? James Thomas Zebroski's "Toward a Theory of Theory for Composition Studies," by Julie Jung
Me, Myself, and All of Us: Revisiting Linda Brodkey's "Writing on the Bias," by Jonathan Alexander
Vernacular Scholarship and Craig S. Womack's Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism, by Stephen Donatelli
Rediscovering Deborah Cameron's Verbal Hygiene, by Pegeen Reichert Powell
The Intellectual Work of Composition: James F. Slevin's Introducing English, by Bruce Horner
The Radicalism of Marilyn Sternglass, by Joseph Harris

Notes on Contributors