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Thanks, Amanda-- on thing though--we already have a rhetoric comprehensive exam, and exam that many students have taken. This comprehensive exam is going to concentrate on composition theory and pedagogy--although as we all know the two traditions are difficult to separate. On Thu, 2 Nov 1995 [log in to unmask] wrote: > I think the following would be valuable reading for a PhD > exam in comp/rhet (and my congratulations as well for this > curricular coup!): > > Harkin, P. and J. Schilb, eds. Contending with Words: Composition > and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age. MLA, 1991. > > Foss, Foss, and Trapp. Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric. > 2nd ed. Waveland, 1991. > > B. Brock, R. Scott, and J. Chesebro, eds. Methods of Rhetorical > Criticism. 3rd ed., rev. Wayne State UP, 1989. > > LeFevre, K. Invention as a Social Act. SIUP, 1987. > > Swearingen, C. J. Rhetoric and Irony: Western Literacy and > Western Lies. Oxford, 1991. > > Welch, K. The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric: > Appropriations of Ancient Discourse. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990. > > Ede/Lunsford. Singular Texts/Plural Authors. SIUP, 1991. > > --------------- > Cheers! --Amanda >