Since the 1960s, invention theory has reinvented itself. This essay aims to map and advance
that process. It provides a window into the recent intellectual history of rhetorical studies and …

Invention in Rhetoric and Composition examines issues that have surrounded historical and
contemporary theories and pedagogies of rhetorical invention, citing a wide array of …

The Future of Invention links classical rhetorical practices of invention with the philosophical
work of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida and proposes that some of the most crucial …

This essay retells the history of US rhetorical studies as a negotiation over the meaning of
the concepts of invention and imagination. By providing a genealogical outline of the …

Melting glaciers. Record temperatures. Vanishing bees. Oil spills. Toxic air. We live in a
world of wounds that demand an interrogation of where we are headed not just as a species …

Applying interactionist discourse theory to show how we create novel beliefs Inventive
Intercourse: From Rhetorical Conflict to the Ethical Creation of Novel Truth offers a theory of …

Rhetoric is multiple and mutable in the sense that there is more than one kind of rhetoric and
any particular rhetoric is highly adaptable to the point that what qualifies as rhetoric …

“Just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric”-the first half of this
central statement from the International Rhetoric Culture Project is abundantly evidenced. It …

Rhetorical invention is the principal source of politics and ethics as contemporary theories
from various disciplines demonstrate. The complex reflexive relationship among politics …

That a single author creates a rhetorical artifact is fundamental to traditional genre theory.
This article draws on posthumanist notions of linguistic “citationality” in order to divest the …