TY - JOUR
T1 - Rhetoric and the archive
AU - Ray, Angela G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - Blending personal narrative, pedagogical guidance, and analytic commentary, this essay performatively explores the individual and social dimensions of contemporary rhetorical inquiry, claiming the experiential interdependence of its manifold forms. Situating archive as a conceptual bridge that links different types of practice, the essay first proffers an approach to reading the archive of rhetorical scholarship in order to ascertain its evolving dynamics. Next, it explicates the creation of an archive for an individual project, demonstrating that a letter of condolence written by a Union soldier in 1863 represents text or context, and is recognizable as fragment or icon, depending not on its physical or formal features but on the analytic purposes and processes of the scholar. The essay constitutes pluralism and specialization as a productive paradox for individual scholars as well as the disciplinary community, and it emphasizes the interactions of analytic approach and affective associations.
AB - Blending personal narrative, pedagogical guidance, and analytic commentary, this essay performatively explores the individual and social dimensions of contemporary rhetorical inquiry, claiming the experiential interdependence of its manifold forms. Situating archive as a conceptual bridge that links different types of practice, the essay first proffers an approach to reading the archive of rhetorical scholarship in order to ascertain its evolving dynamics. Next, it explicates the creation of an archive for an individual project, demonstrating that a letter of condolence written by a Union soldier in 1863 represents text or context, and is recognizable as fragment or icon, depending not on its physical or formal features but on the analytic purposes and processes of the scholar. The essay constitutes pluralism and specialization as a productive paradox for individual scholars as well as the disciplinary community, and it emphasizes the interactions of analytic approach and affective associations.
KW - Archive
KW - Conrad D. Ludeke
KW - Fragment
KW - Icon
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Rhetorical criticism
KW - U.S. Civil War
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U2 - 10.1080/15358593.2016.1183877
DO - 10.1080/15358593.2016.1183877
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975318356
SN - 1535-8593
VL - 16
SP - 43
EP - 59
JO - Review of Communication
JF - Review of Communication
IS - 1
ER -