Rediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric.
A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical tradition itself. Authors discussed include not only twentieth-century American compositionists but also a linguist, a poet, a philosopher, a painter, a Renaissance rhetorician, and a nineteenth-century pioneer of comics; the collection also features some less-studied works by authors who remain well known. These texts will give rise to new conversations about current ideas in rhetoric and composition.
This volume contains discussion of the following authors and titles: Judah Messer Leon, The Book of the Honeycomb's Flow, Angel DeCora, Sterling Andrus Leonard, English Composition as a Social Problem, Rodolphe Töpffer, William James, Kenneth Burke, Adrienne Rich, Ann E. Berthoff, John Mohawk, "Western Peoples, Natural Peoples," William Vande Kopple, William Irmscher, Beat Not the Poor Desk, Walter J. Ong, Geneva Smitherman, Thomas Zebroski, Linda Brodkey, Craig S. Womack, Deborah Cameron, James Slevin, Marilyn Sternglass, and William E. Coles, Jr.
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