Deep Rhetoric is addressed to philosophy and rhetoric. And, like the journal, its questions emerge from the problem of a long-standing and uncomfortable conjunction, the “and” that divides and joins in one stroke. Over the course of eight chapters or a “series of closely related essays” (8), Crosswhite argues for a redefinition of rhetoric's place within our society's ethical imagination (giving it new “rights” to reason, justice, and wisdom, rights usually given to philosophy) and thereby returns rhetoric firmly to its original arena, the human condition. Such a recovery of rhetoric, if not its empowerment, grounds Crosswhite's concern for questions that philosophy shares with rhetoric only in a kind of grudging détente. It also says a great deal about his claim that rhetoric may be (or perhaps was all along) philosophy's best critic, offering us other ways way of loving wisdom, seeking justice, and contending with violence.A note on “deep:” Crosswhite's “deep” is both a move against philosophy and a gesture toward going “beyond” rhetoric as an academic discipline. Rhetoric began—like philosophy—amid the conditions of humanity: our questions of virtue, community, and communication of both. Rhetoric's migration into a university setting says less about its essences (one being its connection to teaching) and more about how education has shifted away from a concern with those conditions (3). Moreover, as Crosswhite notes, rhetoric has not been treated well in American higher education; it has been especially damaged by “destructive elitist” attitudes that simplify the complex “communication capabilities” needed for social life (3). Yet if rhetoric can go or become “deep” enough, Crosswhite argues, if it can do what it has always done all those times institutions have tried to kill it off—respond to controversies “for a specific time and in a specific place,” ‘hosting’ them as honest and useful (6)—then it will thrive. In the end, Crosswhite is after this fully “critical, creative, and truthful” rhetoric (177).Crosswhite solidifies rhetoric's “rapprochement” with philosophy (177) in chapters 5 and 6, an extensive and productive reading of Heidegger. The work of that German philosopher/rhetorician is one of many shared substances between the two schools of thought that Crosswhite gives attention to throughout the book. A typical review would summarize those substances and their attendant chapters, moving toward an analytical climax. Yet a fair reviewer knows such a limited space cannot do justice to Crosswhite's dense arguments, especially about Heidegger. And also Crosswhite covers some old ground. I will not rehearse his expansion on Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's 1969 work (chapter 7). Readers of this journal know that Crosswhite organized and oversaw a special issue in 2010 about the legacy of The New Rhetoric.Crosswhite's individual chapters are not as important as his work on concepts that bring rhetoric into its “deeper” self. Crosswhite argues for a retrieval of four concepts “from millennia of philosophical and theological reifications” (79).1 It is these concepts—transcendence, psychagōgia, logos, and humanism—that deserve a reviewer's (and reader's) attention. Their development throughout the essays shows in a more direct way how this book situates itself within rhetorical theory and the history of rhetoric and in relation to the progress that has been made in both of those arenas in the second half of the twentieth century. These concepts are not new to philosophy or rhetoric, but taken as a whole they define the “deepest” rhetoric.Crosswhite's rhetorical attention to these concepts highlights a significant difference between philosophy and rhetoric: he insists that rhetoric resist the urge for an epistemological telos, prominent in philosophy. Thus a “deep” rhetoric pursues a direction but acknowledges that such a pursuit consistently destabilizes any actual arriving. In that frame, Crosswhite expends the first one hundred pages or so (chapters 1 and 2) trying to name but not terminally define “deep rhetoric” through these concepts; the rescued concepts become mines in which Crosswhite repeatedly enters, not because he is looking for “gold” but because he wants to describe rhetoric as the work of mining. And so he claims rhetoric as a “way of being.” This claim is not new to rhetorical theory, but what makes Crosswhite's attempt so persuasive is the ambitiousness of the book as evidenced in the depth of the mining, which extends past the first two chapters, the concepts aiding his analysis of justice, violence, and wisdom. Along with this depth, the book's breadth also argues forcefully that one does not “study” rhetoric so much as live it, because its influence is felt across the human condition. That is what makes rhetoric philosophical or, better, what makes philosophy rhetorical. And the living is an entangled, material existence. Mixing humor and serious scholarship, for example, Crosswhite couples his close reading of Heidegger with an explanation of how silence and logos inhabit the manner in which he and his wife share a bed.Living amid others requires the practice of transcendence, the first of the key concepts. Crosswhite writes that rhetoric as transcendence is “a way we open ourselves to the influence of what is beyond ourselves and become receptive, a way we participate in a larger world and become open to the lives of others, a way we learn and change” (17). This participation is a meeting with each other “in language of some kind” (61), equal to “our being-in-logos” (56). In the eternal battle between rhetoric and philosophy, rhetoric's practice in the mundane (as opposed to philosophy's attachment to the ideal seen in Plato's heavenly visions) has been seen as a weakness. In Crosswhite's estimation this lack of heavenly transcendence is not a negative when seen through a different frame. Crosswhite argues that rhetoric is “something we are, not something we have” (61). This implies a different relationship to philosophy, one hidden by “knowledge” as a having. In addition, rhetorical transcendence has an “ethical force” because ethics is “constitutive of rhetoric” (107). That force certainly has something to do with “the good,” but it does not entail imposing that “good” on others through violence, physical or rhetorical. For Crosswhite the difference between an ethical transcendence and what he calls a “warrior theory of transcendence” is the latter's lack of restraint (117). This lack is best seen in Plato's description of Gorgias: he is a man who seeks “conquest and domination” along with wealth for himself (117), but ironically his rhetoric is not rhetorical enough. “Socrates' real charge against Gorgias's rhetoric is that it does not go deep enough” (124, emphasis his). In other words, rhetoric may have been a skill or “discipline” for the Sophist but not a manner of life and so less than ethical. That ethical manner of life is a constant communicative examination, a questioning of what we claim to know and put “under” our power. This opens us to something or someone else.This communicative examination is part of the second concept, psychagōgia. Translated as “leading the soul,” this Platonic notion is a “special power” of logos (different than its usual association with sophistic magic or spellbinding) that Crosswhite draws out from the gospel of John, known for its description of Logos as the Word of God. “Pros ton theon” (“toward the god”) becomes the lack of “possession or knowledge of an ultimate being” or “definite, certain, foreseeable, outcomes” (31) or a “not-having, a way of comporting oneself toward but not a way of actually knowing or grasping or achieving the goal” (30). This restraint is what makes this concept a rhetorical one rather than a philosophical one. Psychagōgia as a practice of “deep rhetoric” is “a life of pursuing and loving that stretches out toward wisdom but never arrives at it” (253). This “limited” power is a power “to which one must yield and not simply a power that one attempts to master and use for oneself” (133). Such a limitation makes rhetoric more ethical than its more end-orientated sister, philosophy. And a “deep rhetoric” internalizes this limitation on a primal level. One might suggest that what keeps philosophy grounded—that is, what prevents its heavenly transcendence—is its rhetorical “leading.”Psychagōgia is something “which we can never completely objectify” (131). This is because of its relation to logos, the third concept. Logos “moves in and against the semiotic languages of human beings; it makes them possible, but it works strongly against their certainties and ideologies” (79). Yet this “it” is not “a thing but a direction” (79). In terms of the gospel of John it is “the dynamic movement toward and into G-d,” and it must continue moving toward that which “will always exceed the forms of comprehension that lead toward it” (34). In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, rhetoric's “essence [as logos] is its onwardness” (79) or its experiencing of psychagōgia. This particular formation has implications for rhetoric as it continues its ethical turn. Rhetorical scholars have struggled indirectly with the content of rhetoric and so also with the content of its ethic. But if it is toward a good, if it is a leading toward, then rhetoric is not suspicious but in line with the w/Word as a calling toward. Such a leading toward enhances the power of language, a win for rhetoric.Or in Heidegger's thinking, rhetoric “is an awareness of” a logos, an awareness “deeper” that extends beyond the discipline, a “more original” logos of “communication, controversy, deliberation, and being-with-one-another—the essential sociality of Dasein” (195). This “ungrounded” logos (197) appears as Crosswhite pushes past what he sees as Heidegger's self-centered “authenticity” toward “a richer conception of logos and a more complex vision of sociality” (198). Conceptualizing “sociality” as that which is human, Crosswhite argues that human “beings” are not “simple entities, enclosed in themselves, but are movements toward and away from each other,” the world, themselves, and “whatever else their transcendence reveals” (174). These movements are both inherently rhetorical and ethical, movements toward a good.It is the movement of logos—the quintessence of rhetoric in a way—that violence puts to an end. And yet, in Crosswhite's opinion, rhetorical violence is often the response to physical violence. Here he contends with Walter Benjamin's “Critique of Violence,” suggesting that as much as it offers productive paths, it also is “intellectually traumatized” by the wars of the twentieth century and so is “an extreme example” of this tendency toward violence in response to violence (Benjamin argues for a divine violence that would overwhelm a mythic violence) (168–69). Crosswhite refuses any solution to violence (ontotheological or otherwise) and argues for a “suffering” rhetoric, one that experiences and endures violence (166). The best response to violence is a “deep rhetoric” that both prevents “overarching” theories and that is “carefully attuned” to a form of the human as sociality amid transcendence. Yet Crosswhite stumbles a bit here. At times his own analysis is as abstract as Benjamin's. More profoundly, although Crosswhite suggests that Benjamin needs a type of violence, many readers of Benjamin might disagree. Even if one accepts that Benjamin does indeed have such a need, the argument between the two is a larger one concerning rhetoric and religion. One cannot easily dismiss Benjamin's theological adherence to some form of messianic glory, Jewish or otherwise, merely because of the effects of war. And perhaps our lack of intellectual traumatization due to the wars of the twenty-first century says more than we let on. In the end, many religions answer violence with a “suffering” savior. Ironically, Crosswhite describes his response to violence as a more human, “less ultimate” work of justice and peace, a kenosis ironically not unlike that of the primary character in the gospel of John.On the other hand, Crosswhite's argument against violence certainly has value and legitimacy, and it grounds his central claim on a related subject: humans need to do more work (rhetorical and otherwise) to effect justice. However, when Crosswhite dabbles in religious rhetoric (along with the gospel on John, he draws on Augustine, Buddhist meditation, and the Hebraic tradition to develop his idea of rhetorical wisdom in the last chapter), he does not go deep enough. He draws from these rhetorical depths, but he seems to stop at moments when they could offer more. Ironically, as Crosswhite shows in his interaction with wisdom in the last chapter, it is religion in part that makes possible his most substantial critique of Heidegger, namely, that Heidegger does not go deep enough into human sociality. In fairness Crosswhite notes that he has worked to show the “formal similarities” of explicit religious rhetoric to his own “deep rhetoric” (366) but also admits he could only give a “preliminary account” of this relationship (367). In a less than generous reading, the whole book itself is only a “preliminary account” of a deep rhetoric, leaving readers wanting more. In a generous reading, this is exactly what a philosophical rhetoric is supposed to do: keep the conversation moving. In other words, as with most of our best scholarship, its strength is also its weakness.The last of Crosswhite's four concepts—humanism—certainly poses the questions that religion does but does not define the human exclusively in religious terms. Like a rhetorical justice, the “human” and its attendant wisdom is “for a time” (54). For Crosswhite, humanism is not about “realizing a specifically human essence,” such as rationality, but about “struggling for human dignity,” dignity here being understood as a freedom to develop (46). Deep rhetoric thus must “prevent its own humanism from congealing into something reified and dogmatic” (56). Humanism is not just dynamic but also ethical, limiting itself, and thereby making itself accountable to others. This is the human condition to which a deep rhetoric “aspires” (222), a condition achievable, yet always achieved kairotically, within time, space, and logos. Many rhetorical scholars could enthusiastically embrace this definition, mainly because it emphasizes both a looking back and a future orientation.In the end Deep Rhetoric is certainly a virtuous keystone (perhaps not yet a capstone) to the long process of “mining” within Crosswhite's thinking that began with his own dissertation on Heidegger nearly thirty years ago. It is also a broad survey of the ways in which rhetoric can and should become a different kind of philosophy, its own kind. The book is both deep and wide, and its movement steers us toward something that can be called good. If indeed this is a sustained direction for rhetorical theory in the future (and I hope it is), Crosswhite's book will be read for a long time.

Book Review| May 01 2016 Review: Orfeo in Ovidio. La creazione di un nuovo epos, by Alessandra Romeo Alessandra Romeo, Orfeo in Ovidio. La creazione di un nuovo epos, Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2012, 198 pp. ISBN 9788849834260 Donatella Puliga Donatella Puliga Donatella Puliga Centro di Antropologia e Mondo Antico Università di Siena Via Roma 47 53100 SIENA donatella.puliga@unisi.it Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (2): 219–220. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.219 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Donatella Puliga; Review: Orfeo in Ovidio. La creazione di un nuovo epos, by Alessandra Romeo. Rhetorica 1 May 2016; 34 (2): 219–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.219 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2016 Review: Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400–1500, by Matthew Kempshall, and Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, by Peter Van Nuffelen Matthew Kempshall, Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400–1500, Manchester University Press, 2012, x + 627 pp. ISBN 9780719070310Peter Van Nuffelen, Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, Oxford University Press, 2012, viii + 252 pp. ISBN 9780199655274 Cam Grey Cam Grey Cam Grey Department of Classical Studies University of Pennsylvania 201 Claudia Cohen Hall 249 S 36th St Philadelphia, PA 19104 cgrey@sas.upenn.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (2): 216–218. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.216 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Cam Grey; Review: Rhetoric and the Writing of History, 400–1500, by Matthew Kempshall, and Orosius and the Rhetoric of History, by Peter Van Nuffelen. Rhetorica 1 May 2016; 34 (2): 216–218. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.216 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2016 Review: Recollecte super Poetria magistri Gualfredi, by Guizzardo da Bologna Guizzardo da Bologna, Recollecte super Poetria magistri Gualfredi, a cura di D. Losappio, Gli Umanisti, 3), Verona: Fiorini, 2013, IX + 290 pp. ISBN 9788896419588 Costantino Marmo Costantino Marmo Costantino Marmo Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione Università di Bologna via Azzo Gardino 23 40122 Bologna - Italia costantino.marmo@unibo.it Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (2): 212–216. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.212 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Costantino Marmo; Review: Recollecte super Poetria magistri Gualfredi, by Guizzardo da Bologna. Rhetorica 1 May 2016; 34 (2): 212–216. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.212 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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Reviewed are: Redesigning Composition for Multilingual Realities, by Jay Jordan, Reviewed by Jessie Casteel, Ben Good, Katherine Highfill, Elizabeth Keating, Rose Pentecost,Nidhi Rajkumar, Rachael Sears, Georgeann Ward, and Maurice WilsonSecuring a Place for Reading in Composition, by Ellen C. Carillo, Reviewed by Ronna Levy

This column reviews four books that illustrate the idea that our locations shape our meaning-making processes. She notes how each author frames the social justice issue at the heart of her or his analysis, paying close attention to how visible the Indigenous presence is as well as the settler colonialism involved in each. The resulting readings are not so much as critique of these studies, but rather show how explicit attention to the settler colonial situation might inform understandings of the relationships between rhetoric, writing, and structures of oppression in the United States, whether or not one’s work focuses primarily on Native American issues.

The purpose of this study is to construct and validate a scale of electronic health (e-health) communication competence. Based on a comprehensive review of e-health literature, this scale was constructed using two studies to gather data and validate the scale; four dimensions emerged in the final measurement: e-health self-efficacy, knowledge, usage, and motivation. Results suggest the e-health competence scale is useful for researchers to develop online health interventions and other domains of computer-mediated communication.

Review of composing(media) = composing(embodiment): bodies, technologies, writing, the teaching of writing by editors Arola, K. l., & Wysocki, A. F.

Review of After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics and the Citizen Bricoleur by Frank Farmer.

Review of Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance by editors Vershawn Ashanti and Aja Martinez.

Research problem: This study investigates the phenomenon of user-generated content strategy in an open-source, wiki-based content-management system (CMS) for the repair of technological devices (http://ifixit.com). By “user-generated content strategy,” we mean processes for developing systems for producing, moderating, and encouraging user-generated content. Research questions: (1) What strategies, or holistic means of organizing content, are used to manage repair manual content via an open-source, wiki-based content-management system that relies on content generated by a wide variety of users? (2) What content rules, or logical premises for how and where content is developed, emerge from a qualitative case study of such a CMS? Literature review: Though a wealth of empirical research has been conducted into user-generated content, few studies have focused on the explicit strategies employed by organizations to develop and encourage such content. At the same time, several recent calls by researchers in both academia and industry have indicated a need for such content models. Some of the challenges these thinkers have noted with creating user-generated content strategies include the difficulty of maintaining a consistent strategy across content generated by users who don't necessarily understand what strategies are in place, as well as maintaining a modicum of quality assurance without squelching user participation. Methodology: We conducted a content audit of iFixit's main educational initiative, the Technical Writing Project (http://edu.ifixit.com) to identify strategies iFixit uses to organize content in this initiative. iFixit is an open-source wiki to help users repair their own devices. We supplemented the audit with interviews with student participants in the project and iFixit technical writing staff to find out what technologies and other affordances affected users of the iFixit Technical Writing Project. Results and conclusions: The main user-generated content strategies used by iFixit include allowing users a wide range of means to participate (such as posting comments or developing their own repair guides), using a content moderation queue (or simple interface for seeing all updates to the wiki), ensuring quality assurance of all repair guide content through redundancy (such as making sure experienced users vetted every published guide), and staging (or arranging information in a linear sequence) information in a multimodal fashion (using multiple modes of communication to reinforce the same information). Such strategies represent a commitment by iFixit to opening up practices that are central to creating content, such as repair documentation, to any interested internet user. Lessons for organizations who wish to encourage user-generated content include developing strategies that protect users from the worst consequences of their actions, that encourage participation, and that allow for experienced users to vet new content.

Research problem: Content strategy, whether narrowly focused on the production of web-based materials for customers or managing the data, information, and documentation of an entire enterprise, has become the latest in a series of movements and methods that have sought to improve the integration of professional and technical communication with the marketing, training, and business processes of organizations. Research questions: How is content strategy defined and described in professional and scholarly literature? What do these definitions and descriptions suggest about the direction of the field of professional and technical communication? Literature review: The theoretical foundation of this study is Classical Rhetorical theory which, for thousands of years, has provided critical methods and vocabularies for the analysis of discourse; my purpose in using it here is to rely on a consistent lens that has served professional and technical communicators well. Classical rhetorical principles can give us useful insight into content strategy, the latest in a series of movements that have captured the attention of professional and technical communicators because they have promised to expand the scope of the work and move the work from the fringes of organizational activity to the center. Previous movements include knowledge management, single sourcing, and content management. Methodology: Because content strategy is an emerging area, I conducted an integrative literature review to characterize this emerging field. This involved a systematic search of peer-reviewed and professional literature on content strategy that met specific qualifications, reading and collecting information from each source about its answers to the research question and its authorship, and analyzing those data to find patterns in them. Results and conclusions: Because only two peer-reviewed sources existed on content strategy, the majority of the literature reviewed emerged from the trade press. I survey the definitions of content and content strategy provided by this literature, and found that almost every definition uses content as part of the definition, leading to some lack of clarity in all of those definitions. But three areas of consensus exist among the definitions: that content strategy is: (a) more inclusive of the lifecycle of content (addressing the processes of creating, revising, approving, publishing, and revising material), (b) integrated with technical and business requirements, and (c) largely focused on material used by customers and, therefore, focused on marketing and support documents. It primarily focuses on traditional genres of content and overlooks emerging genres. The literature suggests that content strategy provides a pathway to make the work of technical communicators more central to organizations. But the literature offers only broad advice for doing so, with few examples (other than some specific templates, which primarily benefit those who already have experience with content strategy). The advice primarily comes from authors working in consulting firms and, as a result, might not reflect the challenges that professional and technical communicators who work internally experience.

Reviews Guizzardo da Bologna, Recollecte super Poetria magistri Gualfredi, a cura di D. Losappio, Gli Umanisti, 3), Verona: Fiorini, 2013, IX + 290 pp. ISBN 9788896419588 Il commento di Guizzardo da Bologna alla Poetria nova di Goffredo de Vino Salvo (Vinsauf) costituisce un documento molto intéressante che arricchisce l'immagine del panorama culturale delle université italiane degli inizi del Trecento. L'editore del testo, Domenico Losappio, ricostruisce con grande rigore, nella sua introduzione, le vicende biografiche e accademiche di Guizzardo, avanzando alcune ipotesi sulTorigine del suo commento. Di nascita bolognese, Guizzardo potrebbe aver insegnato grammatica e retorica nello Studio bolognese tra la fine del XIII secolo e l'inizio del XIV (ma non si hanno che deboli indizi in questo senso); lo troviamo, invece, con certezza all'Università di Siena dal 1306 come docente di grammatica, a seguito della soppressione dello Studio bolognese da parte del legato papale, cardi­ nale Napoleone Orsini, e della conseguente emigrazione di docenti, tra i quali anche Dino Del Garbo, dallo Studio stesso; nel 1321 gli viene conferito un incarico presso il nascente Studio florentino, dove insegna grammatica, lógica e filosofia. Tra l'incarico a Siena e quello a Firenze, cioè tra il 1315 e il 1320 (o, meno probabilmente, in periodo precedente al periodo senese) potrebbero collocarsi sia un suo magistero a Padova, sia la composizione del commento alia Poetria nova. L'editore, dopo aver illustrato le modalité con cui la retorica veniva insegnata tra fine XIII e inizio XIV secolo a Bologna, dove si passa dalTesclusivo insegnamento delTars dictaminis alla lettura della Rhetorica ad Herennium (in particolare), ipotizza che a Padova nello stesso periodo si cominciasse invece a leggere la Poetria nova al posto delTÁd Herennium (p. 57). In questo senso indirizzano alcuni elementi, attentamente discussi e valutati dall 'editore. In primo luogo, Latfinità testuale e culturale con un altro commento italiano alla Poetria nova (dei quattro conservad), quello di Pace da Ferrara, che probabilmente insegnô all'Università di Padova, secondo lo studio che Marjorie C. Woods ha dedicato ai commenti alia Poetria nova. In secondo luogo, la testimonianza di un altro maestro di ars dictaminis, Bichilino da Spello, e il quadro interpretativo che della Poetria nova egli fomisce nel proemio al suo Pomérium rethorice, composto a Padova nel 1304: per questo maestro sia il Candelabrum di Bene da Firenze, sia la Poetria nova costituiscono le fonti prin­ cipal! da cui ricavare la teoria del dictamen e afferma di averti usati entrambi Rhetorica, Vol. XXXIV, Issue 2, pp. 212-220. ISSN: 0734-8584, electronic ISSN: 1533-8541. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/joumals.php?p=reprints. DOI: 10.1525/rh.2016.34.2.212. Reviews 213 nel proprio insegnamentó presso lo Studio patavino. Il commento di Guizzardo si inseiirebbe quindi in un contesto culturale, quello padovano, giá pronto a recepire la novità dell'insegnamento della Poetria nova come trattato di ars dictaniinis. L editore presta un attenzione particolare, nell'introduzione come nelle note che accompagnano l'edizione, alie fonti del commento. Le principali, soprattutto per la parte dedicata ai colores rhetorici, sono senz'altro la Rhetorica ad Herenmum, utilizzata sovente, e giustamente, come chiave di lettura della Poetria, il Candelabrum di Bene da Firenze e, probabilmente, il Cedrits Libani di Bono da Lucca (che sarebbe di poco anteriore al commento stesso): è spesso da un libero utilizzo di queste tre fonti che emerge il testo di Guizzardo, che a volte trae da un testo la definizione e da un altro gli esempi o altri dettagli esplicativi. Un elenco delle altre fonti utilizzate ci fornisce un'idea della formazione di Guizzardo, molto ampia sul versante letterario (andando dalla Consolatio plnlosopluae ai Disticha Catonis, da Giovenale a Ovidio, da Stazio a Terenzio), molto piu ristretta e convenzionale quella relativa a discipline affini, come la grammatica o la lógica (su cui torneremo). II commento si presenta come una expositio letterale del testo di Goffredo, preceduta da un breve proemio in cui Guizzardo colloca la disciplina poética...

Reviewed are: Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and the Sites of Writing, by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak, Reviewed by Polina Chemishanova Understanding Language Use in the Classroom: A Linguistic Guide for College Educators, by Susan J. Behrens, Reviewed by Patty Wilde Creative Writing and Education, edited by Graeme Harper, Reviewed by Mitch James

Book Review| March 01 2016 A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement. By Maegan Parker Brooks. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014; pp. 314. $60.00 cloth. Aric Putnam Aric Putnam St. John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 144–147. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0144 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Aric Putnam; A Voice that Could Stir an Army: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 144–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0144 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II. By James J. Kimble. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014; pp. xv + 217. $19.95 paper. Denise M. Bostdorff Denise M. Bostdorff College of Wooster Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 138–141. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0138 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Denise M. Bostdorff; Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 138–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0138 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why. By Roderick P. Hart, Jay P. Childers, and Colene J. Lind. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013; pp. 304. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Michael J. Bergmaier Michael J. Bergmaier Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 128–131. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0128 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Michael J. Bergmaier; Political Tone: How Leaders Talk and Why. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 128–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0128 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism. Edited by Jim A. Kuypers. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014; pp. vii + 222. $85.00 cloth; $84.99 e-book. Antonio de Velasco Antonio de Velasco University of Memphis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 169–173. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0169 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Antonio de Velasco; Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 169–173. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0169 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion. By Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014; pp. ix + 195. $33.00 cloth. Jeffrey A. Kurr Jeffrey A. Kurr Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 135–138. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0135 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey A. Kurr; Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 135–138. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0135 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics. By Shawn J. Parry-Giles. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014; pp. ix + 258. $90.00 cloth; $27.00 paper. Karrin Vasby Anderson Karrin Vasby Anderson Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 122–125. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karrin Vasby Anderson; Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 122–125. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0122 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies. By Leslie J. Harris. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014; pp. 224. $49.95 hardcover. Eric C. Miller Eric C. Miller Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 112–115. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Eric C. Miller; State of the Marital Union: Rhetoric, Identity, and Nineteenth-Century Marriage Controversies. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 112–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0112 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism. Edited by Stephen J. Hartnett, Eleanor Novek, and Jennifer K. Wood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013; pp. xi + 266. $95.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. L. N. Badger L. N. Badger Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 153–156. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0153 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation L. N. Badger; Working for Justice: A Handbook of Prison Education and Activism. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 153–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0153 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 The Rhetoric of Pregnancy. By Marika Seigel. Foreword by Jane Pincus The Rhetoric of Pregnancy. By Marika Seigel. Foreword by Jane Pincus. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2014; pp. xiv + 183. $35.00 cloth. Judy Z. Segal Judy Z. Segal University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 115–118. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Judy Z. Segal; The Rhetoric of Pregnancy. By Marika Seigel. Foreword by Jane Pincus. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 115–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0115 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era. By Saladin Ambar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014; pp. vii + 224. $26.42 cloth. Lisa Corrigan Lisa Corrigan University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 147–150. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa Corrigan; Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 147–150. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0147 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome. By Kathleen S. Lamp. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2013; pp. xvi + 195. $49.95 cloth. Jeffrey Walker Jeffrey Walker University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 166–169. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0166 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jeffrey Walker; A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 166–169. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0166 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life. By David D. Cooper. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014; pp. xxii + 182. $24.95 paper. William Keith William Keith University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 156–160. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0156 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William Keith; Learning in the Plural: Essays on the Humanities and Public Life. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 156–160. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0156 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2014; pp. 144. $35.00 cloth; $19.95 paper. Mary E. Stuckey Mary E. Stuckey Georgia State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 125–128. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0125 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary E. Stuckey; The Great Silent Majority: Nixon's 1969 Speech on Vietnamization. By Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 125–128. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0125 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916 Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916. By Matthew May. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2013; pp. xiii + 176. $39.95 cloth. Mary Anne Trasciatti Mary Anne Trasciatti Hofstra University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 141–144. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0141 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Mary Anne Trasciatti; Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 141–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0141 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| March 01 2016 Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. By Christa J. Olson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014; pp. xi + 201. $64.95 cloth. Abigail Selzer King Abigail Selzer King Texas Tech University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2016) 19 (1): 163–165. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0163 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Abigail Selzer King; Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2016; 19 (1): 163–165. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.19.1.0163 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2016 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

What does a twenty-first-century writing pedagogy look like? What principles should undergird contemporary writing pedagogy and practice? How should writing teachers today design writing courses, motivate student engagement, and promote literacy practices? Each of the five books reviewed here takes up these questions in calling for sensitivity and care in understanding students and the many ways that they are positioned in the world, for more attention to reading pedagogy in conjunction with writing, and for the continued study of transfer.

“Our ordinary, habitual ways of comprehending the seemingly simple, straightforward acts that comprise dialogue are not only inadequate but fundamentally incorrect.”

“Readers will come away from the book with a better understanding of how the production of good citizens came to be such a common educational objective as well as how citizenship and literacy came to be so tightly bound in a variety of educational spaces.”

Book Review| February 01 2016 Review: The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages, by Mary Carruthers Mary Carruthers, The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages(Oxford-Warburg Studies), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 233 pp. ISBN 9780199590322 Juanita Feros Ruys Juanita Feros Ruys Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (1): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Juanita Feros Ruys; Review: The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages, by Mary Carruthers. Rhetorica 1 February 2016; 34 (1): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2016 Review: Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric, by Michelle Baliff Michelle Baliff, ed., Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2013. 238 pp. ISBN 9780809332106 Arthur Walzer Arthur Walzer University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (1): 115–118. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Arthur Walzer; Review: Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric, by Michelle Baliff. Rhetorica 1 February 2016; 34 (1): 115–118. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.115 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2016 Review: Retórica e Eloquência em Portugal na época do Renascimento, by B. Fernandes Pereira B. Fernandes Pereira, Retórica e Eloquência em Portugal na época do Renascimento, Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 2012; 988 pp. ISBN 9789722719711 Kees Meerhoff Kees Meerhoff Amsterdam Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (1): 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.110 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kees Meerhoff; Review: Retórica e Eloquência em Portugal na época do Renascimento, by B. Fernandes Pereira. Rhetorica 1 February 2016; 34 (1): 110–113. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.110 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| February 01 2016 Review: At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi, by Janet Downie Janet Downie, At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi LogoiNew York: Oxford University Press, 2013. pp. 1–223. ISBN 9780199924875 Raffaella Cribiore Raffaella Cribiore New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (2016) 34 (1): 106–108. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.106 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Raffaella Cribiore; Review: At the Limits of Art: A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi Logoi, by Janet Downie. Rhetorica 1 February 2016; 34 (1): 106–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.1.106 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRhetorica Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2016 by The International Society for the History of Rhetoric. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints.2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

In this special section on Current and Emerging Methods in the Rhetorical Analysis of Texts, we have reported on the results of a project we undertook in order to better understand the costs and benefits of adopting particular approaches to the rhetorical analysis of texts. In the synthesis that follows, we begin with a brief review of the results of our researchers’ analyses, then turn to examine their commonalities and variations. Finally, we conclude with the considerations that should be taken into account in choosing a method, as well as a discussion of the potential for integration. Overall, this synthesis will suggest that there is much to be gained by employing multiple methods for the rhetorical analysis of texts and outlines some of the design standards that can be used to support its development.

The rise of digital humanities has led many writing researchers to consider using digital tools to analyze rhetorical patterns in text. Yet taking a digital approach to the analysis of texts is a complex task. We are faced with a variety of techniques and tools, all of which require significant investment to learn and use. How can we best understand the costs and benefits of adopting a particular approach? Are they simply alternatives or can they be integrated? The three sets of authors in this special section attempt to address these questions by using alternative methodologies to analyze a common set of documents. The following opening piece serves as an introduction to the project. In it, we place their research in the context of taxonomy of approaches to text analysis, and review prior attempts at integration. Following the articles, a closing piece examines the prospects for integration. In it, we provide a brief review of the results of the analyses followed by an examination of their commonalities and variations. Finally, we conclude with the considerations that should be taken into account in choosing a method for textual analysis, as well as a discussion of the potential for an integration of methods.