The essays in WAYS OF SEEING, WAYS OF SPEAKING: THE INTEGRATION OF
RHETORIC AND VISION IN CONSTRUCTING THE REAL explore the
intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping
realities and subjectivities. Each of the nine authors addresses
the following question: How is the constitution of our world and
our identities composed of the intricate interweaving of imagery,
rhetoric, and shared ways of seeing? Central to the essays
comprising this book is the belief that how we articulate our
realities and identities is inseparable from how we see reality and
what we see as reality. Understanding any aspect of human
existence-from scientific knowledge, to constructions of identity,
to the interface of bodies and technologies-requires attention to
the integration of ways of seeing and ways of speaking. WAYS OF
SEEING, WAYS OF SPEAKING is groundbreaking in three ways. First, it
is an exploration of the way in which our construction of the real
is a communal activity involving image, rhetoric, and visual
habits. Second, it provides insight into the dynamic by which any
construction of the real-a knotting of rhetoric, imagery, and
visual conventions-emerges, grows to dominance, and serves as a
site of resistance. Third, these essays, jointly and individually,
set a course for further work in analyzing the integration of
image, rhetoric, and visual habits in myriad constructions of the
real. CONTRIBUTORS Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Don Ihde, Alan Gross,
Anne Frances Wysocki, Sue Hum, Gunther Kress, Catherine L. Hobbs,
Mieke Bal, David Palumbo-Liu, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Valentina
Vitali ABOUT THE EDITORS Kristie S. Fleckenstein, Associate
Professor of English at Florida State University, is the author of
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching (2003),
winner of the 2005 Conference on College Composition and
Communication's Best Book of the Year Award. Sue Hum, Assistant
Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, is
the co-editor, with Peter Vandenberg and Jennifer Clary-Lemon, of
Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing
Teachers (2006). Linda T. Calendrillo is Dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences at Valdosta State University. She is the
co-editor, with Kristie Fleckenstein, of JAEPL: The Journal of the
Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning.
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