This rejoinder is based on comments appearing in Spring 1971 issue of Educational Theory which in turn commented on author's article in the Summer 1969 issue. (MB)

A detailed analysis of the prose style used by John Ruskin in The Stones of Venice. (SP)

Studies the formular style of word-end positions in Homer's two epics. Considers various viewpoints in light of Milman Parry's theory of oral verse composition. (DS)

Discusses a critical approach for dealing with passages of superior literary merit in otherwise mediocre works and with shifts in the nature of languages" employed within a given work. (RD)

This iconographic study of Resnais' classic film reconstructs the narrative structure of the film; identifies the various icons, images, sounds, and acts that constitute "marks" in time; and examines these marks to show how they function rhetorically to help interpret the central message or intrinsic meaning of the film. (PD)

Examines how, in the film "Lady of the Lake," an experiment with the conflation of the look of the camera with that of the protagonist through extended first-person camera techniques dismantles conventional voyeuristic visual pleasure, affects the representation/fetishization of women in the film, and figures into the debate on the…

Argues that many rhetorical studies dealing with feminist argumentation have been limited because of tendencies to reify gender stereotypes. Reconceptualizes feminist argumentation not as an explication of "patriarchal" and "feminist" argument styles but as an endless critique of the ways in which gender stereotypes are…

Argues against Thomas O. Sloane's allegation that John Milton's "Artis Logicae," a commentary on Pierre de la Ramee's "Dialecticae libri duo," manifests antihumanism characteristics of Milton and Ramus. Reexamines Milton's account of probability, the links between Ramus and Cicero, and the roles Ramism played in sixteenth- and…

Investigates the uses of the rhetorical strategy of identification by John McPhee in his novel, "Coming into the Country." Describes the technique articulated by Kenneth Burke as identification. Identifies three of Burke's techniques in McPhee's prose. (HB)

Explores the concept of a rhetoric of textual feminism. Defines the concept and discusses its functions by citing Virginia Woolf and Kenneth Burke. Argues that a rhetoric of textual feminism reveals the emotional, and critiques Woolf's "Three Guineas" to reread the emotional. (HB)

We critique the "college for all" discourse by unveiling its relationship to the politics of education, the broader economic and political contexts, and the class and race structures embedded in society and schooling, including higher education. We analyze the current and future labor markets to demonstrate the ways that the "college for all"…