The revival of classical rhetoric for modern composition studies: A survey

Nelms, Gerald; Goggin, Maureen Daly

doi:10.1080/02773949409390994

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“…Some composition scholars credit the revival of classical rhetoric in the 1950s and 1960s to be a main step towards the crystallization of Composition Studies as a separate discipline in the English Department. Gerald Nelms and Maureen Daly Goggin (1994) [57] assert that this revival has been the most significant and lasting theoretical system offered for application in the teaching of writing. They observe that classical structure of invention, arrangement and style in addition to the rhetorical norms (of purpose, audience, subject matter), the classical system of persuasive appeals (ethical/ethos, emotional/pathos, logical/logos), and the various strategies of carrying out these appeals still inform much of what we know and accept about written discourse and the teaching of composition.…”

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confidence: 99%

Composition Studies and Literary Criticism: A Hermeneutic Transaction

Omari¹

2017

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This paper presents a hermeneutic reading (from a Gadamerian perspective) of the complex relationships that tied the two fields of Composition Studies and Literary Criticism within the English department and across the academia. These two academic disciplines have remained in a dynamic, interactive, reciprocal relation throughout the decades. The paper surveys the published scholarship in the field of Composition Studies and presents a reading of the different themes, philosophies, and approaches that have kept the two fields in an interactive, dialogic process of formation. Terms and concepts from philosophical hermeneutics are introduced and employed to explain this relation.

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Section: Third Pattern Of Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%