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- English, Plato, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Plato and Platonism, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Rhetoric and religion, and 22 moreRhetoric, Classical rhetoric, Richard Whately, The Classical Tradition, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglican Church History, Cultural theory, Rhetoric, Nineteenth Century English literature, Ancient Philosophy, Aristotle, Classical Reception Studies, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Pre-Socratic (Pre-Platonic) Philosophy, History Of Platonic Tradition, Classical Greek Philosophy, Classical reception, Greek Rhetoric, Ancient Roman Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Classics, History of Philosophy, Ancient Grammar, and History of Rhetoricedit
- After 20 years of university teaching, Carol Poster has returned to freelance nonfiction and poetry writing while con... moreAfter 20 years of university teaching, Carol Poster has returned to freelance nonfiction and poetry writing while continuing to do scholarship in history of rhetoric, rhetoric of religion, orality/literacy, and game studies.edit
Uses Richard Whately's work on "party-feeling" to analyze the 2016 US Election. Richard Whately was an nineteenth-century Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and rhetorical theorist.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Rhetorical Criticism, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, and 11 morePolitical Rhetoric, Church History, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Noetics, Anglican Theology, Nineteenth Century British Literature, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, The History of Rhetoric, Richard Whately, and US Presidential Elections
... elements of the sensation novel from the physically foreign locales of the gothic novel and ... Sometimes a paroxysm seizes them, and in an evil hour they betray themselves. ... like Corelli's, illustrates the failure of... more
... elements of the sensation novel from the physically foreign locales of the gothic novel and ... Sometimes a paroxysm seizes them, and in an evil hour they betray themselves. ... like Corelli's, illustrates the failure of theoretically driven fem-inisms to recover Victorian women's novels. ...
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... In the case of gradatio (Greek: climax), for example, grammarians such as Demetrius (On Style 279) and Longinus (On the Sublime 23) treat it syntactically, as a figure of speech. ... An extensive historical survey can be found in... more
... In the case of gradatio (Greek: climax), for example, grammarians such as Demetrius (On Style 279) and Longinus (On the Sublime 23) treat it syntactically, as a figure of speech. ... An extensive historical survey can be found in McCall (1969). ...
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... ant vert de Jean Lemaire de Beiges Romuald I. Lakowski 161 Sir Thomas More's Correspondence: A Survey and Bibliography Bernadette A. Masters ... and "why the epistle was invented." Their remarks are always... more
... ant vert de Jean Lemaire de Beiges Romuald I. Lakowski 161 Sir Thomas More's Correspondence: A Survey and Bibliography Bernadette A. Masters ... and "why the epistle was invented." Their remarks are always brief and usually appear at or near the beginning of the trea-tise. ...
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Research Interests: Rhetoric, Medieval Studies, English language, Medieval Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, and 10 moreMiddle Ages, Medieval Debates, Late-Medieval Disputation, Medieval Debate Poetry, Disputation, English Language, Medieval Debate Culture, Religious Disputations, History of Disputation, and Debate Literature
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... out issues of dating and authorship, have made many obscure texts widely accessible in increasingly usable form (eg, recent translations of the Hermogenic corpus as similar works into English by Mervin Dilts, George Kennedy, Malcolm... more
... out issues of dating and authorship, have made many obscure texts widely accessible in increasingly usable form (eg, recent translations of the Hermogenic corpus as similar works into English by Mervin Dilts, George Kennedy, Malcolm Heath, and Cecil Wooten, and into ...
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... Editors: Carol Poster, Montana State University, USA Richard Utz, Universitat Tubingen / University of Northern Iowa Associate Editors: R. James Goldstein, Auburn University, USA Susanne Hafner, Universitat Hamburg, German)' Hugo... more
... Editors: Carol Poster, Montana State University, USA Richard Utz, Universitat Tubingen / University of Northern Iowa Associate Editors: R. James Goldstein, Auburn University, USA Susanne Hafner, Universitat Hamburg, German)' Hugo Keiper, Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz ...
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... Historiographic Problems Like Miller and Bee, though with a considerably greater degree of rigor, Conley (1984) grounds his discussion of the enthymeme in the history of its use. In "The Greekless Reader and Aristotle's... more
... Historiographic Problems Like Miller and Bee, though with a considerably greater degree of rigor, Conley (1984) grounds his discussion of the enthymeme in the history of its use. In "The Greekless Reader and Aristotle's Rhetoric ...
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Research Interests: Philosophy, Ontology, Rhetoric, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Language, and 4 moreBecoming, Protagoras, Logos, and Phenomena
This is a draft of published paper on how the sophists in Philostratus' Vitae Sophistarum actually earned their livings. It appeared in a festschrift for Martin Camargo that may be ordered from Brepols:... more
This is a draft of published paper on how the sophists in Philostratus' Vitae Sophistarum actually earned their livings. It appeared in a festschrift for Martin Camargo that may be ordered from Brepols: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503547770-1
Research Interests: Classical rhetoric, Late Antiquity, Philostratus, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, and 15 moreAncient Education, Education in antiquity, Greek epistolography, Ancient Rhetoric, Education in Late antiquity and Early Middle Age, Hellenistic Greek Rhetoric, Flavius Philostratus, Ancient Greek education, Greek rhetoric and oratory, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Ancient Greek Rhetoric and Poetics, Classical Rhetorical Theory, and Philostratus the Elder
... elements of the sensation novel from the physically foreign locales of the gothic novel and ... Sometimes a paroxysm seizes them, and in an evil hour they betray themselves. ... like Corelli's, illustrates the failure of... more
... elements of the sensation novel from the physically foreign locales of the gothic novel and ... Sometimes a paroxysm seizes them, and in an evil hour they betray themselves. ... like Corelli's, illustrates the failure of theoretically driven fem-inisms to recover Victorian women's novels. ...
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Eighteenth-century British dissenting minister and rector of Warrington Academy William Enfield, author of the enormously successful elocutionary manual, The Speaker, although often ignored entirely or dismissed as trite and uninteresting... more
Eighteenth-century British dissenting minister and rector of Warrington Academy William Enfield, author of the enormously successful elocutionary manual, The Speaker, although often ignored entirely or dismissed as trite and uninteresting in many histories of rhetoric, in fact wrote his elocutionary manual as part of a comprehensive educational system grounded in moral theology and faculty psychology. This article places Enfield’s elocutionary work within religious and pedagogical context through analysis of his writings on religion and education and his pamphlets debating Joseph Priestley over the nature of dissent.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Rhetorical Criticism, Public Speaking, History of Rhetoric, and 15 moreLiterary studies, Dissenting culture and education, History of Nonconformism, J B Priestley, History of Listening and rhetoric, Religious Dissent, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Elocution, Disciplinary History of Rhetoric and Composition, Enfield, Elocutionism, British Dissenters, English Dissenters, Elocutionist, and Elocutionary Movement
"Richard Whately and the Didactic Sermon.” The History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison. Leiden: Brill, 2010: 59-113. This essay discusses how Whately's theological and rhetorical theories lead to... more
"Richard Whately and the Didactic Sermon.” The History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison. Leiden: Brill, 2010: 59-113. This essay discusses how Whately's theological and rhetorical theories lead to his practice and advocacy of the didactic sermon.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), and 14 moreVictorian cultural studies, Church History, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Noetics, Sermon Studies, Anglican Studies, Homiletics and Communication, Homiletics and Theology, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, The Nineteenth Century, Richard Whately, Church of Ireland, and Victorian Religion
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This essay argues that Whateley's rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately's works on reasoning in light of... more
This essay argues that Whateley's rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately's works on reasoning in light of his pertinent religious notions, namely, a distinction between true and nominal Christianity; rejection of idolatry; abrogation of Mosaic Law; the relationship of the empirical facts of God's Creation and Revelation to human speculations; the priesthood of all believers; and the concomitant necessity of private judgment.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), and 13 moreRhetorica, Victorian cultural studies, Church History, Rhetorical History, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Homiletics, Anglican Theology, Sermon Studies, Anglican Studies, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, The History of Rhetoric, and Richard Whately
... The first anonymous edition of the translation edited by Buckley ap-peared in 1823 from Talboys (Oxford). ... Of course, since it is possible that Talboys commissioned a second author to write the questions, we cannot be certain of... more
... The first anonymous edition of the translation edited by Buckley ap-peared in 1823 from Talboys (Oxford). ... Of course, since it is possible that Talboys commissioned a second author to write the questions, we cannot be certain of the identity of the two anonymous authors. ...
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Aristotle, History of Education, Classical rhetoric, and 10 moreThe Classical Tradition, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Aristotelianism, Classical Reception Studies, Classical Traditions, History of Rhetoric, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Literary studies, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, and Nineteenth Century Rhetoric
... Historiographic Problems Like Miller and Bee, though with a considerably greater degree of rigor, Conley (1984) grounds his discussion of the enthymeme in the history of its use. In "The Greekless Reader and Aristotle's... more
... Historiographic Problems Like Miller and Bee, though with a considerably greater degree of rigor, Conley (1984) grounds his discussion of the enthymeme in the history of its use. In "The Greekless Reader and Aristotle's Rhetoric ...
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... out issues of dating and authorship, have made many obscure texts widely accessible in increasingly usable form (eg, recent translations of the Hermogenic corpus as similar works into English by Mervin Dilts, George Kennedy, Malcolm... more
... out issues of dating and authorship, have made many obscure texts widely accessible in increasingly usable form (eg, recent translations of the Hermogenic corpus as similar works into English by Mervin Dilts, George Kennedy, Malcolm Heath, and Cecil Wooten, and into ...
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... In the case of gradatio (Greek: climax), for example, grammarians such as Demetrius (On Style 279) and Longinus (On the Sublime 23) treat it syntactically, as a figure of speech. ... An extensive historical survey can be found in... more
... In the case of gradatio (Greek: climax), for example, grammarians such as Demetrius (On Style 279) and Longinus (On the Sublime 23) treat it syntactically, as a figure of speech. ... An extensive historical survey can be found in McCall (1969). ...
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This is a humorous article about how to calculate the probable size of an audience at a conference presentation.
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton was nominated as the first female presidential candidate of a major party in a United States election and Sylvanas Windrunner was appointed as the first female Warchief of the Horde in the fictional land of... more
In 2016, Hillary Clinton was nominated as the first female presidential candidate of a major party in a United States election and Sylvanas Windrunner was appointed as the first female Warchief of the Horde in the fictional land of Azeroth in which the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft is set. This article is a rhetorical analysis of how authority and ethos were constructed by, respectively, Lady Sylvanas and Garrosh Hellscream in the World of Warcraft and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the 2016 United States election. As well as investigating issues of race and gender, it explores how these four figures deploy what Richard Weaver has termed "charismatic" and "ultimate" terms to establish the legitimacy of their actions and positions. This paper was published in Popular Culture Review 29.1 (Spring 2018): 31-50. It is an open access journal; the link is posted below.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Digital rhetoric, Digital Rhetorics, Video Games, Video Game Theory, and 12 moreVideogames, Videogames and Classics, MMORPG, Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG), Hillary Clinton, Feminist Rhetorics, Richard Weaver, World of Warcraft, MMORPGs, Psychology of Video Games, Gender and Videogames, and Donald Trump
This shows how Richard Whately's responses to Irish poverty were grounded in his beliefs about theology, education, and economics. "Rhetoric, Education, and Economics as Practical Theology: Archbishop Richard Whately’s Irish Policies".... more
This shows how Richard Whately's responses to Irish poverty were grounded in his beliefs about theology, education, and economics.
"Rhetoric, Education, and Economics as Practical Theology: Archbishop Richard Whately’s Irish Policies". Victorians and the Case for Charity: Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati. Ed. Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press., 2014: 77-93.
"Rhetoric, Education, and Economics as Practical Theology: Archbishop Richard Whately’s Irish Policies". Victorians and the Case for Charity: Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati. Ed. Marilyn D. Button and Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press., 2014: 77-93.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, History of Economic Thought, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, and 15 moreAnglicanism (Anglicanism), Victorian cultural studies, Church History, Rhetorical History, Rhetorical Theory, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Great Irish Famine, Anglican Theology, Anglicanism, Political Economy and History, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, History of the Church of England, Richard Whately, and Church of Ireland
Abstract. This essay argues that Whately’s rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately’s works on reasoning in light of... more
Abstract. This essay argues that Whately’s rhetorical and logical theories are systematically related to his religious thought and the religious controversies in which he was involved. It analyzes Whately’s works on reasoning in light of his pertinent religious notions, namely, a distinction between true and nominal Christianity; rejection of idolatry; abrogation of Mosaic Law; the relationship of the empirical facts of God’s Creation and Revelation to human speculations; the priesthood of all believers; and the concomitant necessity of private judgment.
“An Organon for Theology: Whately’s Rhetoric and Logic in Religious Context”. Rhetorica 24:1 (2006): 37-77.
“An Organon for Theology: Whately’s Rhetoric and Logic in Religious Context”. Rhetorica 24:1 (2006): 37-77.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), and 13 moreVictorian cultural studies, Church History, Rhetorical History, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Homiletics, Anglican Theology, Sermon Studies, 19th Century Sermon Culture, Anglican Studies, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, The History of Rhetoric, and Richard Whately
"Richard Whately and the Didactic Sermon.” The History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison. Leiden: Brill, 2010: 59-113. This essay discusses how Whately's theological and rhetorical theories lead to his practice... more
"Richard Whately and the Didactic Sermon.” The History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century. Ed. Robert Ellison. Leiden: Brill, 2010: 59-113.
This essay discusses how Whately's theological and rhetorical theories lead to his practice and advocacy of the didactic sermon.
This essay discusses how Whately's theological and rhetorical theories lead to his practice and advocacy of the didactic sermon.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Nineteenth Century Studies, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), and 14 moreVictorian cultural studies, Church History, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Noetics, Sermon Studies, 19th Century Sermon Culture, Anglican Studies, Homiletics and Communication, Homiletics and Theology, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Richard Whately, Church of Ireland, and Victorian Religion
Uses Richard Whately's work on "party-feeling" to analyze the 2016 US Election. Richard Whately was an nineteenth-century Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and rhetorical theorist.
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Victorian Studies, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Rhetorical Criticism, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, and 12 morePolitical Rhetoric, Church History, Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History of Rhetoric, Anglican Church History, Noetics, Anglican Theology, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, The History of Rhetoric, Richard Whately, 2016 US Presidential Elections, and 2016 US Election
This paper argues that orality-literacy theory can be used to analyze how players experience lore (the mythology of a game world) in a way similar to how audiences in an oral culture learned their own cultural traditions. It draws... more
This paper argues that orality-literacy theory can be used to analyze how players experience lore (the mythology of a game world) in a way similar to how audiences in an oral culture learned their own cultural traditions. It draws comparisons between the player experience of World of Warcraft and how ancient audiences experienced Homeric epics.
Research Interests: Game Theory, Mythology, Homer, Game studies, Rhetoric, and 23 moreOrality-Literacy Studies, Orality-Literacy-Electracy Studies, Video Games, The Classical Tradition, Digital Games, Serious Gaming, Classical Traditions, Walter Ong, Greco-Roman Mythology, Comparative mythology, Classical Tradition in Art and Literature, Online Gaming, Games, Gaming, Classical Tradition in Modern Culture, Classical Tradition, Orality and Literacy, World of Warcraft, Gamers, Classical Tradition and Reception, Homeric Reception, Homeric epic, and Walter J. Ong
This article discusses the economic reasons for the student cheating industry, looking at the opportunity costs of writing papers on the part of students and the actual payments made to freelancers working for academic cheat sites.
Research Interests: Cheating and Plagiarism, Contract Cheating, Plagiarism Detection, Learning and Teaching, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, and 11 moreStudent Motivation, Plagiarism studies, Academic Dishonesty, Psychology of cheating, Cheating, The Research Proposal Cheating on Exams, Digital plagiarism & Academic dishonesty, Plagiarism among University Students: Intentional or Accidental, Plagiarism in Higher Education, Plagiarism Management In Universities, and Pedadogy
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, Literary studies, Greek epistolography, letter-writing, ancient diplomacy, and 4 moreGreek and Latin school texts and teaching procedures, with special emphasis on ancient rhetoric and declamation, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Letters, Ancient, and Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
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This is a draft of published paper on how the sophists in Philostratus' Vitae Sophistarum actually earned their livings. It appeared in a festschrift for Martin Camargo that may be ordered from Brepols:... more
This is a draft of published paper on how the sophists in Philostratus' Vitae Sophistarum actually earned their livings. It appeared in a festschrift for Martin Camargo that may be ordered from Brepols: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503547770-1
Research Interests: Second Sophistic, Rhetoric, Classical rhetoric, Late Antiquity, Philostratus, and 23 moreAncient greek Rhetoric (Social Sciences), Ancient Greek Rhetoric, History of Rhetoric, Sophists, Ancient Education, Education in antiquity, Greek epistolography, Ancient Rhetoric, Education in Late antiquity and Early Middle Age, Greek epistolography, letter-writing, ancient diplomacy, Greek and Latin school texts and teaching procedures, with special emphasis on ancient rhetoric and declamation, Hellenistic Greek Rhetoric, Flavius Philostratus, Ancient Greek education, Greek rhetoric and oratory, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, Sophistique, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Classical Rhetoric and Oratory, Ancient Greek Rhetoric and Poetics, Classical Rhetorical Theory, Philostratus the Elder, and Rezeption Philostrats des Älteren
Eighteenth-century British dissenting minister and rector of Warrington Academy William Enfield, author of the enormously successful elocutionary manual, The Speaker, although often ignored entirely or dismissed as trite and uninteresting... more
Eighteenth-century British dissenting minister and rector of Warrington Academy William Enfield, author of the enormously successful elocutionary manual, The Speaker, although often ignored entirely or dismissed as trite and uninteresting in many histories of rhetoric, in fact wrote his elocutionary manual as part of a comprehensive educational system grounded in moral theology and faculty psychology. This article places Enfield’s elocutionary work within religious and pedagogical context through analysis of his writings on religion and education and his pamphlets debating Joseph Priestley over the nature of dissent.
Research Interests: Rhetoric (Languages and Linguistics), Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Public Culture, Rhetorical Criticism, and 20 morePublic Speaking, History of Rhetoric, Rhetorical Elocution, Dissenting culture and education, History of Nonconformism, History of Listening and rhetoric, Religious Dissent, History of Argumentation and Rhetoric, J.B. Priestley, The History of Rhetoric, Elocution, Disciplinary History of Rhetoric and Composition, The Disciplinary History of Rhetoric and Composition, Enfield, Elocutionism, British Dissenters, English Dissenters, Elocutionist, William Enfield, and Elocutionary Movement
This lead article in the journal First Year Honors Composition discusses the differences between Canadian and United States models of "honours" programs, using as an example my own experience as an American who taught for ten years in... more
This lead article in the journal First Year Honors Composition discusses the differences between Canadian and United States models of "honours" programs, using as an example my own experience as an American who taught for ten years in the York University Professional Writing Program. As well as putting this in the historical context of Canada evolving from English and the United States from Scottish models of post-secondary education, I also address balancing vocational and liberal education in writing curriculum design.
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Research Interests: Rhetoric, New Testament, Classical rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, and 9 moreEpistolography, Ancient economy, Business Letter Writing, Latin epistolography, Ancient Roman economy, trade and commerce, Greek epistolography, letter-writing, ancient diplomacy, Byzantine epistolography, Hellenistic Greek Rhetoric, and Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Research Interests: Atheism, Nineteenth Century Studies, Victorian Literature, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, Anglicanism (Anglicanism), and 10 moreQueer Theory (Literature), History of Atheism, Victorian poetry, Victorian religious literature, Religion and Literature, Literature and Religion, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Anglican Church History, A. C. Swinburne, and Marquis De Sade
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Composition and Rhetoric, Aristotle, History of Education, Classical rhetoric, and 10 moreThe Classical Tradition, Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Aristotelianism, Classical Reception Studies, Classical Traditions, History of Rhetoric, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, and Nineteenth Century Rhetoric
Research Interests: Literary Canon, Victorian Literature, Popular Fiction, Victorian Women Writers, British Women Writers, and 9 moreVictorian novel, Feminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Victorian fiction, Victorian sensation fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Literary Canon Formation, Victorian popular fiction, Sensation Novels, and Ouida
Research Interests: Rhetoric, Neoplatonism and late antique philosophy, History Of Platonic Tradition, Classical rhetoric, Silence, and 9 moreLate Antiquity, Rhetoric of religion, Ancient Philosophy, Plato and Platonism, Neoplatonism, History of Rhetoric, Classical Greek Philosophy, Rhetoric and religion, and Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Research Interests: Nineteenth Century Studies, Classical rhetoric, Victorian Literature, Nineteenth Century British History and Culture, The Classical Tradition, and 7 moreClassical Traditions, History of Rhetoric, Reception of Antiquity, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Richard Jebb, and Victorian Rhetoric
My most recent book of poetry, Returning to Dust, is available for pre-order at Finishing Line Press. People have said of it: Here is a poetry that is elegant and formal in its deft and compelling use of language, in its musicality,... more
My most recent book of poetry, Returning to Dust, is available for pre-order at Finishing Line Press. People have said of it:
Here is a poetry that is elegant and formal in its deft and compelling use of language, in its musicality, economy, and rhythmic virtuosity; a poetry that is welcoming and wise. It is a poetry of wonder and praise that sings to what is dear and perishable: life and the nourishing environment that sustains and inspires it. It is also a devotional poetry, if by devotional, we mean a poetry devoted to observing life as clearly and attentively as possible as an act of responsibility, respect and love: “Soft purple and green clay like a faint bruise.” Poster’s poetry proclaims with reverence, and with a good deal of humor throughout, its intricately woven and moving song, “I love best what my love cannot make stay.”
- Gregory Dunne, author of Home Test, Fistful of Lotus, and Quiet Accomplishment, Remembering Cid Corman.
Carol Poster makes a very welcome return to poetry with this fine collection of poems that mix sharp observation with subtle expressions of emotion. Poster displays a sharp eye for nature, often most tellingly when found in an urban setting, portraying: “a vast emptiness/at the heart of the intersection,/except for a few left-turning SUVs,/and the butterfly….” (“Complicity”) She is able to render the voice of an ex-miner unsentimentally and un-patronizingly when she hears his story: “Kids moved to Salt Lake a few years ago./Guess there wasn't much for them to stay for --/even with the electric." (“Electric Lake”) And the stunning title poem presents a meditation on mortality (remembering Genesis 3:19) that is both bracing and beautiful: “Now the vultures circle in late afternoon thermals,/As if the crumpled houses and rusted mining gear/Were the carcass of some great creature/Laid out for their feasting.” A rich and rewarding addition to our store of poetry.
- Gregory Luce, author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, and Memory and Desire
Here is a poetry that is elegant and formal in its deft and compelling use of language, in its musicality, economy, and rhythmic virtuosity; a poetry that is welcoming and wise. It is a poetry of wonder and praise that sings to what is dear and perishable: life and the nourishing environment that sustains and inspires it. It is also a devotional poetry, if by devotional, we mean a poetry devoted to observing life as clearly and attentively as possible as an act of responsibility, respect and love: “Soft purple and green clay like a faint bruise.” Poster’s poetry proclaims with reverence, and with a good deal of humor throughout, its intricately woven and moving song, “I love best what my love cannot make stay.”
- Gregory Dunne, author of Home Test, Fistful of Lotus, and Quiet Accomplishment, Remembering Cid Corman.
Carol Poster makes a very welcome return to poetry with this fine collection of poems that mix sharp observation with subtle expressions of emotion. Poster displays a sharp eye for nature, often most tellingly when found in an urban setting, portraying: “a vast emptiness/at the heart of the intersection,/except for a few left-turning SUVs,/and the butterfly….” (“Complicity”) She is able to render the voice of an ex-miner unsentimentally and un-patronizingly when she hears his story: “Kids moved to Salt Lake a few years ago./Guess there wasn't much for them to stay for --/even with the electric." (“Electric Lake”) And the stunning title poem presents a meditation on mortality (remembering Genesis 3:19) that is both bracing and beautiful: “Now the vultures circle in late afternoon thermals,/As if the crumpled houses and rusted mining gear/Were the carcass of some great creature/Laid out for their feasting.” A rich and rewarding addition to our store of poetry.
- Gregory Luce, author of Signs of Small Grace, Drinking Weather, and Memory and Desire