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Voices in the Wilderness - Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Voices in the Wilderness - Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United
States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in
"Voices in the Wilderness," which traces America's dominant form of
argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of
17th-century American Puritans. A work of composition theory,
rhetorical theory, and cultural criticism, this volume ultimately
provides not only new approaches to argumentation and the teaching
of rhetoric, composition, and communication but also an original
perspective on the current debate over public discourse
Both Jurgen Habermas and Wayne Booth--two of the most influential
theorists in the domain of public discourse and good
citizenry--argue for an inclusive public deliberation that involves
people who are willing to listen to one another, to identify points
of agreement and disagreement, and to make good faith attempts to
validate any disputed claims. The Puritan voice crying in the
wilderness, Roberts-Miller shows, does none of these things. To
this individual of conscience engaged in a ceaseless battle of
right and wrong against greedy philistines, all inclusion,
mediation, and reciprocity are seen as evil, corrupting, and
unnecessary. Hence, the voice in the wilderness does not in any
real sense participate in public deliberation, only in public
pronouncement.
Arguing that our culture's continuing affection for the ethos of
the voice crying in the wilderness is one of our more troubling
inheritances from the early American ambivalence to public
discourse--including the Puritan denigration of
rhetoric--Roberts-Miller contends that the monologic discourse of
the Puritans in fact contains within it arguments for dialogism.
Thus, the history of rhetoric can provide much richer fields for
reimagining discourse than heretofore credited. Roberts-Miller
concludes by extending her findings into their practical
applications for argumentation in the public sphere and in the
composition classroom.
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