This reader presents essays that editor Victor Vitanza describes as "efforts at revisionary histories that are either quasi-traditional histories or radical subversive histories." They are influential works published over the past four decades by major rhetoricians and historians with radically different presumptions and challenges to the status quo of history. Their discussions present a full array of possible histories in terms of originations, classicisms, scientific objectivities, temporalities, literary criticisms, feminisms, modernity/post-modernity, aesthetics, and perpetually more and more contestations. Providing a forum for scholars' original voices as the discussions have developed over the decades, this collection is a unique and valuable text for advanced study on the history of rhetoric.

This reader presents essays that editor Victor Vitanza describes as "efforts at revisionary histories that are either quasi-traditional histories or radical subversive histories." They are influential works published over the past four decades by major rhetoricians and historians with radically different presumptions and challenges to the status quo of history. Their discussions present a full array of possible histories in terms of originations, classicisms, scientific objectivities, temporalities, literary criticisms, feminisms, modernity/post-modernity, aesthetics, and perpetually more and more contestations. Providing a forum for scholars' original voices as the discussions have developed over the decades, this collection is a unique and valuable text for advanced study on the history of rhetoric.

PRE/TEXT 21.1-4 2013 - CONTENTS. Special Issue: FOOD THEORY. "Introduction" by Jenny Edbauer Rice and Jeff Rice - "The Good Body, Skilled in Eating" by Donovan Conley - "Food for Thought" by Phillip Foss - "Un(Loveable) Food" by Jenny Edbauer Rice - "Love In The Time of Global Warming" by Mark Stern - "The Organic Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms" by Eric Reuter - "Consuming Iowa, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Earl Butz" by David M. Grant - "The Urban Food Database and the Pedagogy of Attunement" by Jodie Nicotra - "Menu Literacy" by Jeff Rice - "The Erotic Pleasures of Danger Foods" by Zachary Snider - "My Conversion from Religion to Chocolate" by Alan McClure - "Rhetorical Theory in the Light of Food: The Meaning of Authority in Top Chef Masters" by Roland Clark Brooks - "Cook, Eat, and Write the Self: L'ecriture Feminine, Alice Waters, and the Slow Food Revolution" by Heather Eaton McGrane - "American Craft Brewers: A Story of Collaboration & Creativity" by Greg Koch