Overview

This book examines the concept of rhetorical invention from an affirmative, nondialectical perspective.

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Author:   John Muckelbauer
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780791474204

ISBN 10:   0791474208
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   08 January 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Orientations 1. The Problem of Change 2. Why Rhetoric? Which Rhetoric? The Scope of Rhetoric Humanism, Postmodernism, Performative Ethics Singular Rhythms 3. How to Extract Singular Rhythms: Affirmative Reading and Writing Styles of Engagement Arguments Affirmative Strategies Part II: Intensities 4. Imitation and Invention Reproduction: Repetition of the Same Variation: Repetition of Difference Inspiration: Difference and Repetition Refrain 5. Itineration: What Is a Sophist? Sophistic Targets, Sophistic Topography Resembling Thought Seeing and Time Returns 6. Situatedness and Singularity Audience Situations and Synthesis Kairos Situatedness as Singularity 7. Topoi: Replacing Aristotle Aristotle's Place Rhetoric's Place Scholarly Style 8. The Future of Invention: Doxa and ""the Common"" The Time of Invention Doxa and the Common The Time of Invention (echoes) Notes Works Cited Index"

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Muckelbauer is lucid and compelling both as he reflects on the reasons that dialectal change and oppositional postmodernism can feel a lot like stagnation and spinning wheels, and as he identifies the questions that must be addressed in order to move toward a more real and realistic model of change. - JAC This is perhaps the most interesting and innovative (inventive) book on rhetorical invention I've encountered since Deleuze's What Is Philosophy? Muckelbauer not only contributes to but also fundamentally alters the conversation on this topic. He manages something that is almost nonexistent in the field-to read (to follow textual traces, openings, potentialities) rather than simply to interpret. Most studies in rhetorical invention, until now, have been mired in a host of humanist presumptions about the thinking/inventing subject-this work offers a serious challenge to that approach, not by arguing with it but by performing something very different. - Diane Davis, author of Breaking up [at] Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter This book contains a wealth of inventive approaches to important issues in both postmodern theory and the field of rhetorical studies. Muckelbauer argues for and offers an original style of engagement with these issues that transforms scholarly discourse on invention. - Bradford Vivian, author of Being Made Strange: Rhetoric beyond Representation

Author Information

John Muckelbauer is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

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