Alternative Rhetorics: Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition

by Laura Gray-Rosendale (Editor), Catherine F. Smith, Phyllis Mentzell Rydell

Alternative Rhetorics questions traditional canons of rhetorical thought, and offers new perspectives on rhetorics historically overlooked within Western culture. Along with establishing new methodologies for investigating the history of rhetorics, the book also explores rhetoric's changing relationship with technology. By challenging the reader's understanding of rhetoric and the rhetorical tradition, Alternative Rhetorics provides insights that will allow researchers, educators, and students to rethink their own position in a rhetorical world.

Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale is a President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow and a Professor of English at Northern Arizona University where she also directs a Writing Program for "at risk" freshmen college students. Laura's areas of interest include creative nonfiction, popular culture, rhetorical history, philosophy theory, and gender studies. She is an avid animal lover, trail runner (and a sometimes mountain biker.)