College English
May 2005
The Economics of Exposition: Managerialism, Current-Traditional Rhetoric, and Henry Noble Day
Abstract
Through an examination of the work of the nineteenth-century American rhetorician Henry Noble Day the author suggests that the causal relationship usually identified between economic formations and genres such as exposition is not a purely one-way process. Day’s rhetorics, he argues, were not only shaped by the economies of Taylorism but also were themselves engaged in a sociohistorical process of class formation, suggesting that such a study of the connections among managerialism, current-traditional rhetoric, and class formation raises important questions for our own work today.
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- College English
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- 2005-05-01
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- 10.58680/ce20054086
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