Editing the Rhetorical Tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11722340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Bizzell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 109-118 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8213 • E-ISSN: 1527-2079 |
| Publisher | Penn State University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/par.2003.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2036734944 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The rhetorical tradition is always being edited. I know because I have edited it myself—that's a sort of pun, in which the words "the rhetorical tradition" refer both to a book and to the cultural phenomenon the book represents. Bruce Herzberg and I (2001) have co-edited an anthology entitled The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. That project also involved editing the tradition itself, because, at least since the days of Isidore of Seville, it is through inclusions and exclusions in anthologies such as ours that the rhetorical tradition is established, grows, and changes. Anthologies seem always to have played a large role in the definition of the rhetorical tradition because the accessibility of texts has so often been an issue in the study of rhetoric, whether transmission problems have been caused by the dissipation of classical learning at the end of the Roman period or are caused by the vagaries of print publication today. Then and now, the changing shape of the tradition may be discerned from the tables of contents of anthologies, a circumstance that has become especially evident to me now that we have had the opportunity to edit our volume twice. The tables of contents of the first edition, appearing in 1990, and the second, in 2001, show both some enduring similarities and some interesting differences
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |