Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies

James A. Berlin Expanded Edition Winner of the 1998 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing978-0-9724772-8-4 (paperback, $27.00); 978-0-9724772-9-1 (hardcover, $50.00); 978-0-9724772-5-3 (PDF, $19.99), 978-160235-437-1 (EPUB, $19.99) © 2003 by Parlor Press. 268 pages, with illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric—displaced and marginalized, he argues, by the allegedly disinterested study of aesthetic texts in the college English department. Berlin sees rhetoric as offering a unique perspective on the current disciplinary crisis, complementing the chal