TY - BOOK ID - 77883073 TI - The methodical memory PY - 2010 SN - 1280698136 9786613675095 0809385937 9780809385935 9781280698132 0809330016 9780809330010 0809316153 PB - Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press DB - UniCat KW - Invention (Rhetoric) KW - Rhetoric UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883073 AB - In this first sustained critique of current-traditional rhetorical theory, Sharon Crowley uses a postmodern, deconstructive reading to reexamine the historical development of current-traditional rhetoric. She identifies it (as well as the British new rhetoric from which it developed) as a philosophy of language use that posits universal principles of mind and discourse. Crowley argues that these philosophies are not appropriate bases for the construction of rhetorical theories, much less guides for the teaching of composition. ER -