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A revolution in tropes
This book seeks to bring the problem of difference into the ongoing discussions vis-a-vis democratic deliberations about advancing rhetorical theory through the trope of the other, alloiosis, defined as the figure of difference, exception, and radical otherness.
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The House of My Sojourn
Employing the trope of architecture, Jane Sutton envisions
the relationship between women and rhetoric as a house: a
structure erected in ancient Greece by men that, historically,
has made room for women but has also denied them the authority
and agency to speak from within. Sutton’s central
argument is that all attempts to include women in rhetoric
exclude them from meaningful authority in due course, and this
exclusion has been built into the foundations of rhetoric.
Drawing on personal experience, the spatial tropes of
ancient Greek architecture, and the study of women who attained
significant places in the house of rhetoric, Sutton highlights
a number of decisive turns where women were able to increase
their rhetorical access but were not able to achieve full
authority, among them the work of Frances Wright, Lucy Stone,
and suffragists Mott, Anthony, and Stanton; a visit to the 1893
World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where the busts
that became the Portrait Monument were displayed in the
Woman’s Building (a sideshow, in essence); and a study of
working-class women employed as telephone operators in New York
in 1919.
With all the undeniable successes—socially,
politically, and financially— of modern women, it appears
that women are now populating the house of rhetoric as never
before. But getting in the house and having public authority
once inside are not the same thing. Sutton argues that women
“can only act as far as the house permits.” Sojourn
calls for a fundamental change in the very foundations of
rhetoric.
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Haunted by a Peacock: Discovering, Testing, and Generating Rhetoric in Untimely Ways
In this essay, a peacock represents an \"untimely\" agent of transformation in an Aristotelian-based rhetoric. The peacock refers to a fragment attributed to Antiphon. This essay identifies and develops two untimely historiographical ways for pursuing an answer to the question, how can sophistical fragments in general and Antiphon's fragment in particular be employed to generate attractive spaces for the future of rhetoric as an art of civic discourse? The essay is divided into four parts. It begins with a methodological introduction to untimely ways of doing historiography followed by a discussion of the fragment about the peacocks. The third part situates the fragment in a \"laboratory\" where \"equipment\" is set up to explore the fragment with untimely ways. The last part of the essay describes how if the peacock's wing were left alone, rhetoric would be better prepared to look outside of itself into new forms for new functions.
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Figuring Forth the Gift of Janice Hocker Rushing
Sutton recalls the memories she had on Janice Hocker Rushing, professor of communication at the University of Arkansas who died on Feb 19, 2004 at the age of 55. She also highlights Rushing's renowned piece entitled The Deer Hunter: Rhetoric of the Warrior.
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In the Palindrome of the
The story around the Portrait Monument—its celebration in the Rotunda and its authorization in the basement—alerted me to the existence of another movement, one of women going down at the same time as they are recognized and ostensibly included within the house. My personal experience of seeing the statue in the basement led me to think about the house I am in: it is rhetoric. Yet the Capitol remains part of the complex that offers a vision of rhetoric as a small house where people assemble and use its process for making decisions.
During my first visit as
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What Time o’ Night It Is
By the time I reach the top of the stairs, the atmosphere becomes palpable. I enter into the house of rhetoric above ground—that world where rhetoric envelops the contemporary sociopolitical atmosphere, like a frame of a house.¹ As it becomes more and more tangible, the atmosphere actually gathers a material weight as it shifts from a figural dimension to a concrete one. So as I reach the top of the stairs, I exit the deepest ancient region of the house and enter another building, the U.S. Capitol. Analogically speaking, the Capitol stands in concretely for the house of rhetoric
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The Building—of the Future
In the last chapter I discovered Frances Wright in the house of rhetoric. I began moving down the halls and eventually came to Lucy Stone. Meeting up with Lucy Stone meant another trip to Washington, D.C. At the Library of Congress, I read some of the speeches and private letters she had written and that were written to her. Using Lucy Stone as a placeholder of women’s rise in the house of rhetoric, I left the library around noon for a walk. As luck would have it, the Capitol is close by just as it starts to rain. As I
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Walking the Milky Way
The top picture on p. 124 (figure 6.1) is the Portrait Monument as it stands in the Capitol Rotunda. The picture below it (figure 6.2) shows the back of the monument, its rough stone. What the pictures do not show is a group of high school students. They are standing in the front of the monument but their backs are to it because their attention is focused on the teacher standing in front of them. Instinctively, I decide to join the high school students. Along the wall behind them is a bench. I sit down and listen. As the teacher
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Speakers As We Might Be—Now
From the World’s Columbian Exposition, I venture down the hall of the house. My research quest takes me from the Woman’s Dormitory to New York where many of the working-class women, for whom the dormitory had been built, had originated from. As I go, I see ahead a colossal mural hanging on the wall.
A hugely popular photograph of a mural—something akin to a sound bite—is Edmunds E. Bond’s “Weavers of Speech,” c. 1915 (figure 5.1).
The black-and-white photograph was popularized in An Ideal Occupation for Women, a pamphlet that the New York telephone company circulated in the
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