This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth c... more This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century by situating and analyzing allusions made by Jose Enrique Rodo (1872-1917) and Ruben Dario (1867-1916) to one of the most widely-circulated Spanish-language rhetorical handbooks in Latin America, Spaniard Jose Gomez Hermosilla’s Arte de hablar en prosa y verso (1826). Rodo and Dario were both associated with literary modernismo, a movement coming from Latin America, that sought to revive Spanish language literature. On the one hand, the anti-rhetorical arguments of these two writers contributed to the narrative of a decline in the rhetorical tradition through belletristic rhetoric, a narrative that still persists in some scholarship. On the other hand, modernists like Rodo engaged in a process of synthesis which concerned itself with pedagogy, selectively borrowing from the classical tradition and aiming to inculcate aesthetic sensibility and good taste in the rising generation. I...
The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (... more The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) can be useful for communication centers and for the support of multimodal assignments because they can promote greater attention to sound. The turn to the DAW is situated in a tradition of embracing sonic technologies for pedagogical purposes through analysis of the history of discussions of microphonic and recording technology in the Quarterly Journal of Speech . The author surveys available DAW software and cites experience using it at one center.
College Composition and Communication, Sep 1, 2011
This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a readi... more This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a reading of Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle and Good Government. I read this writer’s argument for indigenous ability and reshaping of space through picture, map, and text as a multimodal effort that invites attention to classroom rhetorical power dynamics and standards.
The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (... more The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) can be useful for communication centers and for the support of multimodal assignments because they can promote greater attention to sound. The turn to the DAW is situated in a tradition of embracing sonic technologies for pedagogical purposes through analysis of the history of discussions of microphonic and recording technology in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The author surveys available DAW software and cites experience using it at one center.
This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth c... more This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century by situating and analyzing allusions made by José Enrique Rodó (1872-1917) and Rubén Darío (1867-1916) to one of the most widely-circulated Spanish-language rhetorical handbooks in Latin America, Spaniard José Gómez Hermosilla’s Arte de hablar en prosa y verso (1826). Rodó and Darío were both associated with literary modernismo, a movement coming from Latin America, that sought to revive Spanish language literature. On the one hand, the anti-rhetorical arguments of these two writers contributed to the narrative of a decline in the rhetorical tradition through belletristic rhetoric, a narrative that still persists in some scholarship. On the other hand, modernists like Rodó engaged in a process of synthesis which concerned itself with pedagogy, selectively borrowing from the classical tradition and aiming to inculcate aesthetic sensibility and good taste in the rising generation. I examine references to rhetoric and to Hermosilla in Darío’s short story “El Rey Burgués” and in Rodó’s essays, including Ariel and “La despedida de Gorgias” in order to suggest that this synthesis was both oppositional and revisionary. Particularly, in Rodó’s essays, the figure or persona of the rhetorician functions as a protagonist whose philosophical anti-foundationalism can be read as a revision of the classical tradition that promises to renew its relevance rather than declare its end.
This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a readi... more This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a reading of Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle and Good Government. I read this writer’s argument for indigenous ability and reshaping of space through picture, map, and text as a multimodal effort that invites attention to classroom rhetorical power dynamics and standards.
The essays of this symposium draw on the concept of rhetorical witnessing to examine sites of his... more The essays of this symposium draw on the concept of rhetorical witnessing to examine sites of historical trauma from a range of angles.
This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth c... more This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century by situating and analyzing allusions made by Jose Enrique Rodo (1872-1917) and Ruben Dario (1867-1916) to one of the most widely-circulated Spanish-language rhetorical handbooks in Latin America, Spaniard Jose Gomez Hermosilla’s Arte de hablar en prosa y verso (1826). Rodo and Dario were both associated with literary modernismo, a movement coming from Latin America, that sought to revive Spanish language literature. On the one hand, the anti-rhetorical arguments of these two writers contributed to the narrative of a decline in the rhetorical tradition through belletristic rhetoric, a narrative that still persists in some scholarship. On the other hand, modernists like Rodo engaged in a process of synthesis which concerned itself with pedagogy, selectively borrowing from the classical tradition and aiming to inculcate aesthetic sensibility and good taste in the rising generation. I...
The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (... more The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) can be useful for communication centers and for the support of multimodal assignments because they can promote greater attention to sound. The turn to the DAW is situated in a tradition of embracing sonic technologies for pedagogical purposes through analysis of the history of discussions of microphonic and recording technology in the Quarterly Journal of Speech . The author surveys available DAW software and cites experience using it at one center.
College Composition and Communication, Sep 1, 2011
This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a readi... more This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a reading of Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle and Good Government. I read this writer’s argument for indigenous ability and reshaping of space through picture, map, and text as a multimodal effort that invites attention to classroom rhetorical power dynamics and standards.
The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (... more The article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) can be useful for communication centers and for the support of multimodal assignments because they can promote greater attention to sound. The turn to the DAW is situated in a tradition of embracing sonic technologies for pedagogical purposes through analysis of the history of discussions of microphonic and recording technology in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The author surveys available DAW software and cites experience using it at one center.
This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth c... more This article investigates the history of rhetoric in Latin America at the end of the nineteenth century by situating and analyzing allusions made by José Enrique Rodó (1872-1917) and Rubén Darío (1867-1916) to one of the most widely-circulated Spanish-language rhetorical handbooks in Latin America, Spaniard José Gómez Hermosilla’s Arte de hablar en prosa y verso (1826). Rodó and Darío were both associated with literary modernismo, a movement coming from Latin America, that sought to revive Spanish language literature. On the one hand, the anti-rhetorical arguments of these two writers contributed to the narrative of a decline in the rhetorical tradition through belletristic rhetoric, a narrative that still persists in some scholarship. On the other hand, modernists like Rodó engaged in a process of synthesis which concerned itself with pedagogy, selectively borrowing from the classical tradition and aiming to inculcate aesthetic sensibility and good taste in the rising generation. I examine references to rhetoric and to Hermosilla in Darío’s short story “El Rey Burgués” and in Rodó’s essays, including Ariel and “La despedida de Gorgias” in order to suggest that this synthesis was both oppositional and revisionary. Particularly, in Rodó’s essays, the figure or persona of the rhetorician functions as a protagonist whose philosophical anti-foundationalism can be read as a revision of the classical tradition that promises to renew its relevance rather than declare its end.
This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a readi... more This essay invites a critique of contact zone theory and rhetoric’s origin story based on a reading of Guaman Poma’s First New Chronicle and Good Government. I read this writer’s argument for indigenous ability and reshaping of space through picture, map, and text as a multimodal effort that invites attention to classroom rhetorical power dynamics and standards.
The essays of this symposium draw on the concept of rhetorical witnessing to examine sites of his... more The essays of this symposium draw on the concept of rhetorical witnessing to examine sites of historical trauma from a range of angles.
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