Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology : Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (363 pages)
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Rhetoric and the Origins of Consciousness -- 2. Oral Residue in Tudor Prose Style -- 3. Tudor Writings on Rhetoric, Poetic, and Literary Theory -- 4. Memory as Art -- 5. Latin Language Study as a Renaissance Puberty Rite -- 6. Ramist Classroom Procedure and the Nature of Reality -- 7. Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind -- 8. Swift on the Mind: Satire in a Closed Field -- 9. Psyche and the Geometers: Associationist Critical Theory -- 10. J. S. Mill's Pariah Poet -- 11. Romantic Difference and the Poetics of Technology -- 12. The Literate Orality of Popular Culture Today -- 13. Crisis and Understanding in the Humanities -- Index.
This is not a book on rhetoric in any narrow sense, but rather concerns its general ambiance and also some of its quite specific manifestations. The thirteen chapters that comprise the book move chronologically from the Renaissance up to the present time.