Rhetoric Retold Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance

Name: Rhetoric Retold Regendering the Tradition from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
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ISBN: 9780809321377

ISBN-10: 0809321378

ISBN-13: 9780809321377

Edition: 1997

Authors: Cheryl Glenn

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After explaining how and why women have been excluded from the rhetorical tradition from antiquity through the Renaissance, Cheryl Glenn provides the opportunity for Sappho, Aspasia, Diotima, Hortensia, Fulvia, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Margaret More Roper, Anne Askew, and Elizabeth I to speak with equal authority and as eloquently as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine. Her aim is nothing less than regendering and changing forever the history of rhetoric. To that end, Glenn locates women’s contributions to and participation in the rhetorical tradition and writes them into an expanded, inclusive tradition. She regenders the tradition by designating those terms of identity…

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 12/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Mapping the Silences, or Remapping Rhetorical Territory



Classical Rhetoric Conceptualized, or Vocal Men and Muted Women



Medieval Rhetoric: Pagan Roots, Christian Flowering, or Veiled Voices in the Medieval Rhetorical Tradition



Inscribed in the Margins: Renaissance Women and Rhetorical Culture



The Implications of a Regendered, Retold Rhetoric, or Against Conclusions


Notes


Works Cited


Index