The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Affect in Reader Response and Writing

by Steven B. Katz

Arguing for an oral theory of Reader Response Criticism, Steven B. Katz conducts a philosophical investigation into the possibility and desirability of teaching reading and writing as rhetorical music.

In the course of this investigation, Katz deals with New Physics, the sophists, Cicero, orality, epistemology, voice, writing, temporality, and sound. He demonstrates that Reader Response Criticism--as part of a new sophistic that has entered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809319039
• ISBN13: 9780809319039
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"