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Examines relationship between the rhetorical theory and cultural views of a leading rhetorician of the 1950s.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Cultural Theory, Part I Cultural Theory, Part II Literary Theory Rhetorical and Composition Theory Science, Metaphysics, and Sectional Culture The Rhetoric of Social Science: Brute Facts and Created Realities General Semantics and Spacious Rhetoric Rhetorical Genres Conclusion Works Cited Index

About the Author

BERNARD K. DUFFY is Professor of Speech Communication at California Polytechnic State University. He is coeditor, with Halford Ross Ryan, of American Orators of the Twentieth Century: Critical Studies and Sources and American Orators before 1900: Critical Studies and Sources (both Greenwood Press, 1987) and, with Ryan serves as adviser for Greenwood's Great American Orators series. His articles have appeared in various journals relating to rhetoric, philosophy, and history.

MARTIN JACOBI is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. He is coeditor with Michael G. Moran, of Research in Basic Writing: A Bibliographic Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1990) and has published numerous articles on composition and writing as well as literary criticism.