Methodical Memory Invention in Current Traditional Rhetoric

In this first sustained critique of current-traditional rhetorical theory, Sharon Crowley uses a postmodern, deconstructive reading to examine 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, not a rhetorical theory, and she argues that its use as such has led to a misrepresentation of invention. Crowley contends that current-traditional rhetoric continues to prosper because a considerable number of college composition teachersgraduate students, part-time instructors, and teachers of literatureare not involved in the development of the curriculum they are asked to teach. As a result, important voices, necessary to create any true representation of the composition teaching experience, are denied access to the scholarly conversations evaluating the soundness of this approach.Crowley, Sharon is the author of 'Methodical Memory Invention in Current Traditional Rhetoric', published 1990 under ISBN 9780809316151 and ISBN 0809316153.