Abstract This essay explores rhetoric tropologically through various strophes: antistrophe, catastrophe, and apostrophe. Our purpose is to delineate problems and possibilities that these tropes pose for rhetoric in an effort to create new rhetorics. We seek to display the antistrophic and catastrophic figurations of rhetoric and then use visual lenses of photography and cinema to disrupt the figurations. Following the disruption, we seek to heighten sensibilities to other figurations, in particular an apostrophic figuration. We cast apostrophe as a figure for change because it marks a deeply felt turn toward difference and otherness. Turned as such, rhetoric becomes erotic.

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Research Article| August 01 1986 The Death of Rhetoric and its Rebirth in Philosophy Jane Sutton Jane Sutton Dept. of Speech Communication, Pennsylvania State University, York, PA 17403 USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Rhetorica (1986) 4 (3): 203–226. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1986.4.3.203 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jane Sutton; The Death of Rhetoric and its Rebirth in Philosophy. Rhetorica 1 August 1986; 4 (3): 203–226. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.1986.4.3.203 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. Copyright 1986, The International Society for The History of Rhetoric1986 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.