Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition Jonathan Scheff Archaeologists decoding ancient messages

Archaeologists decoding ancient messages

It offers a view from the inside

revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people

Angela Leighton imagines a poem 'surprised in the act of finding itself'

Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition Jonathan Scheff Archaeologists decoding ancient messagesRediscovered texts for teaching composition and rhetoric. A project of recovery and reanimation, Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition foregrounds a broad range of publications that deserve renewed attention. Contributors to this volume reclaim these lost texts to reenvision the rhetorical tradition itself. Authors discussed include not only twentieth century American compositionists but also a linguist, a poet, a philosopher, a painter, a