About the Author

Cheryl Glenn is a liberal arts research professor of English and women's studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her many publications include Rhetoric Retold: Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity through the Renaissance and Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence.

Krista Ratcliffe is a professor and chair of the English department at Marquette University. Her research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and feminist theory, and her publications include the award-winning Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness.

Reviews

"This well-edited and thematically coherent collection offers in-depth studies from a variety of topics and methods that reveal the complexity of these two critical (but often unattended) concepts: silence and listening. Those interested in orality and literacy will find a new, dynamic vector for study."--Richard Leo Enos, Holder of the Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition, Texas Christian University "With this collection we see unmistakably that indeed a tide of interest is rising and that it promises to yield groundbreaking changes across the spectrum of rhetorical history, theory, criticism, and pedagogy. After reading this collection, one must surely ask, "Why in the world did we take so very long to pay attention?" Our thanks must go to Krista Ratcliffe and Cheryl Glenn for casting such a much needed light in this direction."--Jacqueline Jones Royster, author of Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women

With this edited volume, Glenn (Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Ratcliffe (Marquette Univ.) advance their previous work, which includes Glenn's Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence (CH, Apr'05, 42-3875) and Ratcliffe's Rhetorical Listening (2005). Both well-established and emerging scholars are represented. The first section, "History," traces Western culture's disparagement of silence and listening. Here Shevaun Watson's essay, "Trying Silence: The Case of Denmark Vesey and the History of African American Rhetoric," argues that though Vesey's accusers remark on Vesey's soaring rhetoric, they never quote him. The only "word" attributed to Vesey is silence. In response, the book's second section, "Theory and Criticism," complicates the political meanings of silence and listening. Thus Kennan Ferguson's essay "Silence: A Politics" argues that silence may also constitute spiritual restoration, political resistance, or community building. The final section, "Praxes," suggests methods of practicing silence and listening. For example, Sheri Stenberg teaches students to consciously listen to angry text and their own angry responses in her essay "Cultivating Listening: Teaching from a Restored Logos." This superb, thought-provoking collection includes essays that treat history, literature, rhetoric, and pedagogy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above. -- B. A. McGowan, Northern Illinois University--B.A. McGowan "CHOICE" (8/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

120Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEWith this edited volume, Glenn (Pennsylvania State Univ.) and Ratcliffe (Marquette Univ.) advance their previous work, which includes Glenn's Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence (CH, Apr'05, 42-3875) and Ratcliffe's Rhetorical Listening (2005). Both well-established and emerging scholars are represented. The first section, "History," traces Western culture's disparagement of silence and listening. Here Shevaun Watson's essay, "Trying Silence: The Case of Denmark Vesey and the History of African American Rhetoric," argues that though Vesey's accusers remark on Vesey's soaring rhetoric, they never quote him. The only "word" attributed to Vesey is silence. In response, the book's second section, "Theory and Criticism," complicates the political meanings of silence and listening. Thus Kennan Ferguson's essay "Silence: A Politics" argues that silence may also constitute spiritual restoration, political resistance, or community building. The final section, "Praxes," suggests methods of practicing silence and listening. For example, Sheri Stenberg teaches students to consciously listen to angry text and their own angry responses in her essay "Cultivating Listening: Teaching from a Restored Logos." This superb, thought-provoking collection includes essays that treat history, literature, rhetoric, and pedagogy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above. -- B. A. McGowan, Northern Illinois University--B.A. McGowan "CHOICE" (8/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)