Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 1996 Rhetoric Society of America Conference Book

	Preface
	Making and Unmaking the Prospects for Rhetoric	1
	Rhetoric's Prospects: Past and Future	15
	The Prospect of Rhetoric: Twenty-Five Years Later	21
	"We Are All Just Prisoners Here of Our Own Device": Rhetoric in Speech Communication after Wingspread	29
	The Prospect of Rhetorical Agency	37
	How Far We've Come; How Far We Have To Go	43
	Rhetoric 2000: The New Prospects	49
	Some Further Trends in Rhetorical Theory	57
	The Ends of Rhetoric: Aesthetic, Political, Epistemic	65
	The Rhetoric of Community at Century's End	75
	Genre and Social Science: Renewing Hopes of Wingspread	83
	Is the Prospect of Rhetoric Antirhetorical? Or Rhetoric's Critical Impulse	91
	A Feminist Glance at Critical Rhetoric	99
	The History of Language Conventions on Mary Augusta Jordan's Rhetoric Text, Correct Writing and Speaking (1904)	109
	The Enthymeme Examined from the Chinese Value System	115
	Crying for Revision: Postmodern Indians and Rhetorics of Tradition	123
	Rhetorical Study and Practice in the Zone: Chicano/as, Sky Rhetoric, and Earth Rhetoric	133
	A Hermeneutic View of Scientific Metaphor: A Move Away from Assumptions of Causality in the Rhetoric of Science	141
	The Prospect of Rhetoric in Writing across the Curriculum	149
	Luce Irigaray and the Ethics of Sexual Difference: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Rhetoric	157
	Hecklers and the Communication Triangle	165
	Road Guides and Travelers' Tales on the Lincoln Highway	173
	Entering the Rhetorical City: The Metropolitan Prospect of Rhetoric	181
	Memory Arts, Electronic Topoi, and Dynamic Databases	189
	An Allegory	197
	The Rhetoric Blues	201
	Epilogue: On Divisions and Diversity in Rhetoric	207
	Index	211