Research Catalog

Title

Electric rhetoric : classical rhetoric, oralism, and a new literacy / Kathleen E. Welch.

Author

Welch, Kathleen E.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

xvii, 255 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• "In Electric Rhetoric Kathleen E. Welch explores the profound changes in writing and discourse brought about by electronic forms of communication. To this end she integrates three related strands: the redeployment of classical Sophistic rhetoric; current literacy theories within rhetoric and compositions studies, including gender and race issues; and the inherently rhetorical nature of "screens" in relationship to writing and other communication technologies.
• Throughout the book Welch deals extensively with women's issues, which have played a particularly important role in the history of oralism."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Digital communication

Uniform Title

Digital communication.

Subjects

• Rhetoric > Data processing
• Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Audio-visual aids
• Computers and literacy
• Literacy > Study and teaching > Audio-visual aids

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-245) and index.

Contents

I. Classical Greek Literacy and tbe Spoken Word. 1. Introduction: Screen Literacy in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. 2. An Isocratic Literacy Theory: An Alternative Rhetoric of Oral/Aural Articulation. 3. Disciplining Isocrates -- II. Logos Performers, Screen Sophism, and the Rhetorical Turn. 4. Next Rhetoric. 5. Technologies of Electric Rhetoric. 6. Screen Rhetoric: Sophistic Logos Performers and Electric Rhetoric. Appendix: Excerpt from the Origin Myth of Acoma and Other Records, recorded by Matthew W. Stirling.

ISBN

0262232022 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

98043752

OCLC

• 40425923
• ocm40425923

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries