By Jim A. Kuypers
Kuypers, King, and their members discover the notion of rhetoric of 11 key American rhetoricians via analyses in their life's paintings. each one bankruptcy presents a feeling of that scholar's belief of rhetoric, be it via feedback, conception, or educating. The verbal exchange self-discipline usually highlights the paintings of others outdoors the self-discipline; notwithstanding, it hardly acclaims the paintings of its personal critics, lecturers, and theorists. during this assortment, the essays discover the innate mode of conception that guided the rhetorical figuring out of the early critics. In so doing, this paintings dispels the parable that the self-discipline of Speech conversation used to be spawned from a monolithic and inflexible middle that got here to be referred to as neo-Aristotelianism. students and researchers concerned with the historical past of rhetoric, rhetorical feedback and idea, and American public tackle uill locate this identify to be an important addition to their assortment.
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50 16 Twentieth-Century Roots of Rhetorical Studies But more was at stake than the range of teachers’ responsibilities. Hunt contended that the examination of public issues and the persuasive arguments used to justify them formed the essence of a liberal education and that teaching only skills diverted teachers from their primary responsibility: the education of the liberal person. The controversy no longer involved the academic topic of specialization but now overflowed to the aims of a liberal education.
221–232. 35. For a description of Hunt’s revolt against Winans, see Windt, Rhetoric as a Human Adventure, pp. 49–58. 36. Hoyt H. Hudson, “Alexander M. Drummond,” Studies in Speech and Drama in Honor of Alexander M. Drummond (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press), p. 4. 37. , p. 3. 38. Donald C. Bryant, “The Founders of the Cornell Tradition of Rhetorical Study,” a paper presented at the Speech Association of America convention, 1957, p. 5. 39. Hudson, “Alexander M. Drummond,” p. 4. 40. Hunt, “Plato and Aristotle on Rhetoric and Rhetoricians,” Studies in Rhetoric and Public Speaking in Honor of James Albert Winans (New York: Century, 1925), p.
53. , review of Persistent Questions in Public Discussion in QJS 9 (November 1924), p. 396. 54. “Preface,” Persistent Questions in Public Discussion, edited by Alexander M. Drummond and Everett Lee Hunt (Century, 1924), p. v. 55. , p. 486. 56. Edward P. J. Corbett, “The Cornell School of Rhetoric,” in Essays on the Rhetoric of the Western World, edited by Edward P. J. Corbett, James J. Golden, and Goodwin F. Berquist (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1990), p. 295. 57. Letter from Hunt to Windt, April 5, 1968.