Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
Société Canadienne pour L'Étude de la Rhétorique

Annual Conference 1997/ Colloque Annuelle 1997

Final Programme

Monday, July 21/ lundi, juillet 21
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan
Arts Building, Rooms 100 and 104

Contact Information
Registration and Housing Information

Table of Contents

(Click on a session title to see a list of the papers in that session.)

9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

  • Session Ia/Session Ia: Theories of Rhetoric/ Les Théories de la rhétorique

  • Session Ib/Session Ib: Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World/ La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

  • Session IIa/Session IIa: Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Ancient World and in Medieval Europe/ La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la monde classique, et en Europe médiéval

  • Session IIb/Session IIb: Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World/ La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

12:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

  • Session IIIa/Session IIIa: Rhetoric and Social Practices/ Rhétorique et conventions sociales

  • Session IIIb/Session IIIb: Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World/ La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.



Sessions and Papers


9:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Session Ia/Session Ia:

Theories of Rhetoric

Les Théories de la rhétorique

Chair/Président: David Goodwin (University of Waterloo)

Jennifer MacLennan (University of Lethbridge) "Reclaiming the Rhetor: The Fallacy of the Intentional Fallacy"

Judith Dundas (University of Illinois) "Ekphrasis As Art Criticism: The Philostrati and Callistratus in Franciscus Junius's Painting of the Ancients"

Marie-Françoise Delaneuville-Shideler (Carleton University) "De la rhétorique jésuite au Canada du XIIe siècle: les problèmatiques de la conversion"


Session Ib/Session Ib:

Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World

La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

Chair/Président: Kim Fedderson (Lakehead University)

Jameela Lares (University of Southern Mississippi) "Reformation Homiletics at Christ's College, Cambridge"

Brent Nelson (University of Toronto) "Homiletic Invention: John Donne's Use of Similitude"

Linda Mitchell (Pepperdine University) "Rhetoric in Grammar Books in Early Modern England"


11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Session IIa/Session IIa:

Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Ancient World and in Medieval Europe

La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la monde classique, et en Europe médiéval

Chair/Président: Joanne S. Norman (Bishop's University)

Eyvind Ronquist (Concordia University) "Euclidean Mathematics and Some Fallacies, Particularly in Aristotle, Rhetoric 1.7""

Theodore Messenger (University of North Dakota) "Speaking the Unspeakable"

David Aaron Murray (Maryville University) "The Trickster's Voice in the Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play"


Session IIb/Session IIb:

Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World

La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

Chair/Président:

Paul Bator (Santa Clara University) "Fictional Rhetoric of the Scottish Enlightenment"

André Furlani (University of British Columbia) "The Socratic Elenchus in Henry James"

E.F. Dyck (Red Deer College) "The Rhetoric of a Prairie Poem"


12:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m.

Annual General Business Meeting of the CSSR

Assemblée générale annuelle de la SCER


2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Session IIIa/Session IIIa:

Rhetoric and Social Practices

Rhétorique et conventions sociales

Chair/Président: Amanda Goldrick-Jones (University of Winnipeg)

John Moffatt (University of Lethbridge) "Commodifying Linguistic Antimodernism: The Gaelic Text and the Construction of Ethnotourism in Nova Scotia"

Robert M. Seiler and Tamara Seiler (University of Calgary) "Presenting the Self in Everyday Life: The Personalised Licence Plate As Rhetorical Phenomenon"

Lorelei Lingard (Simon Fraser University) "Rhetorical Rituals of Passage: The Student Case Presentation in the Teaching Hospital"


Session IIIb/Session IIIb:

Rhetoric, Poetics, Critical Theory in the Renaissance and in Modern Europe, America, and the Third World

La Rhétorique, l'art poétique, la théorie critique dans la renaissance, et en Europe moderne, Amérique, et le Tiers-Monde

Alex. L. Gordon (University of Manitoba)

Joan Gibson (York University) "The Rhetoric of Women's Chastity in the Early Modern Period"

Sabine Mödersheim (McGill University) "Hieronymus Ammon's Imitatio Crameriana (Nuremberg 1649)"

Pierre Zoberman (Université de Paris XIII-Villetaneuse) "Poétique, rhétorique et axiologie: le mérite des lettres"


3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Session IV/Session IV:

Rhetoric and Social Practices

Rhétorique et conventions sociales

Chair/Président:

Amanda Goldrick-Jones (University of Winnipeg) "Analysing Attitudes to Power: The Political Science Affair at UBC"

Alex. L. Gordon (University of Manitoba) "Professor Gordon, Do You Use Rhetoric in Your Literature Class?"


7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Reception, Geology Building

Hosted by Deans and Department Heads


Contact Information

For more information, please contact:

Joanne S. Norman
Department of English
Bishop's University
Lennoxville, PQ
J1M 1Z7
Voice Mail: (819) 822-9600 ext. 2390
Fax: (819) 822-9623 or 822-9661
E-mail: jnorman@hera.ubishops.ca
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International Society for the History of Rhetoric 1997

Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric 1997

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ISHR and CSSR 1997 Registration and Housing Information

University of Saskatchewan
For information about the ISHR conference, please contact Judith Henderson, hendrsnj@duke.usask.ca;
for information about the CSSR conference, please contact Joanne S. Norman, jnorman@hera.ubishops.ca.

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