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Award-winning essays within the box of rhetoric and composition. Documenting an period of dramatic swap and progress within the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition reports, this publication contains essays which locate in modern thought the language to invite new questions, to reframe latest difficulties, and to maneuver past present impasses in notion and motion. different views supply a stand opposed to present backlash conception, as obvious within the reassertion of expressivism and artistic writing because the antidote to the problems wrought through an excessive amount of theorizing. the entire essays incorporated are winners of the James L. Kinneavy Award and have fun the award's 10th anniversary in addition to its founder, one of many discipline's so much discovered and loved students.
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Freud's aim is not to provide a rational argument that persuades the reader of the reasonableness of the self-imposed limits of psychoanalysis but, rather, to transport the reader, through his ecstatic prose, to accept, perhaps even to join in, the activities of psychoanalytic interpretation. And, in this regard at least, however much one might wish for another outcome, it seems safe to say that the ecstatic effect of Freud's prose has been unparalleled in modern times. To put Freud aside for the moment, though, it is no doubt curious that Kant's definition of the sublime involves a conflict between reason and < previous page page_20 next page > < previous page page_21 next page > Page 21 the imagination, while Longinus' definition elevates madness to the highest form of expression.