Trust in texts : a different history of rhetoric /
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : rhetoric, emotion, and places of persuasion. Rhetorics, pedagogies, and methods. Topics : simultaneous and consecutive. The trouble with emotion, and rhetoric. Emotional educations. The trouble with rhetoric, and emotion
- Decentering rhetoric. Reviewing rhetoric. Everyone knows : antique characters. Everyone knew : rhetoric as its precedents
- Trusting texts. Trusting printing. Trusting rhetoric. "Sincerely, and prudently, yours"
- The mobility of trust. Literature, "literature," and rhetorical truths. Rhetorical rhetoric and literary truth. The communicative essence of language : pure British tongues. The turn to words. The ends of trust
- Conclusion : centering rhetoric--the psychology of anxious moments and solemn occasions.