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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2401333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2401333 N2 - <div><div>Defining a rhetoric as a social invention arising out of a particular time, place, and set of circumstances, Berlin notes that “no rhetoric—not Plato’s or Aris­totle’s or Quintilian’s or Perelman’s—is permanent.” At any given time several rhetorics vie for supremacy, with each attracting adherents representing vari­ous views of reality expressed through a rhetoric.<br> <br>Traditionally rhetoric has been seen as based on four interacting elements: “re­ality, writer or speaker, audience, and language.” As emphasis shifts from one element to another, or as the interaction between elements changes, or as the def­initions of the elements change, rhetoric changes. This alters prevailing views on such important questions as what is ap­pearance, what is reality.<br> <br>In this interpretive study Berlin classi­fies the three 19th-century rhetorics as classical, psychological-epistemological, and romantic, a uniquely American development growing out of the transcen­dental movement. In each case studying the rhetoric provides insight into society and the beliefs of the people.<br></div></div> SN - 0809311666 TI - Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - composition KW - disciplinarity KW - grammar KW - pedagogy KW - rhetoric AU - Berlin, James PY - 1984/04/30/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0809311666 ER -