Reengaging the prospects of rhetoric : current conversations and contemporary challenges / Mark J. Porrovecchio, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: The prospect as prospectus / by Thomas O. Sloane -- KARL WALLACE: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: A Response to Karl Wallace's'The Fundamentals of Rhetoric' / by Stephen Howard Browne -- PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: EVENTAL RHETORIC: A Response to Samuel L. Becker's'Rhetorical Studies for the Contemporary World' / by Barbara A. Biesecker -- REVISITING RICHARD MCKEON'S ARCHITECTONIC RHETORIC: A Response to Richard McKeon's'The Uses of Rhetoric in a Technological Age: Architectonic Productive Arts' / by David Depew -- OUR PREMATURE BURIAL: A Response to Lawrence W. Rosenfield's'An Autopsy of the Rhetorical Tradition' / by Robert S. Iltis -- THE PROSPECTS FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RHETORIC: A Response to Henry Johnstone's'Some Trends in Rhetorical Theory' / by Steve Fuller -- A POLEMICAL EXCURSION THROUGH'THE SCOPE OF RHETORIC TODAY': A Response to Wayne Booth's'The Scope of Rhetoric Today: A Polemical Excursion' / by Paul Kameen -- CHAIM PERELMAN'S PROLEGOMENON TO A NEW RHETORIC: HOW SHOULD WE FEEL? A Response to Chaim Perelman's'The New Rhetoric' / by Celeste Michelle Condit -- A CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY OF RHETORIC: HUGH DUNCAN'S FORGOTTEN CORPUS: A Response to Hugh Dalziel Duncan's'The Need for Clarification in Social Models of Rhetoric' / by Peter Simonson -- RHETORIC AND THE THIRD CULTURE: SCIENTISTS AND ARGUERS AND CRITICS: A Response to Wayne Brockriede's'Trends in the Study of Rhetoric: Towards a Blending of Criticism and Science' / by John Lyne --'THE CULT OF UNINTELLIGIBILITY': CONTINUED QUERIES ABOUT THE NATURE OF OUR DISCOURSE(S): A Response to Barnet Baskerville's'Responses, Queries, and A Few Caveats' / by Mark J. Porrovecchio -- READING THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: CHANGING DISCIPLINARY IDENTITIES IN RHETORICAL STUDIES: A Response to Edward P. J. Corbett's'Rhetoric in Search of a Past, Present, and Future' / by Steven Mailloux -- EPILOGUE: THE PROSPECTS OF RHETORIC AND THE PROSPECTS FOR RHETORIC / by Herbert W. Simons.