Abstract
How does one make contact with difference when doing rhetoric's history and theory? Rather than being afflicted with an anxiety that John Schilb once termed heterophobia, what if doing the history and theory of rhetoric were healthy about heteros? Heteros means "difference" but visually the word shows more than this, namely "eros" in "heteros" - love in difference.
In this chapter, I explore a love of difference in the history and theory of rhetoric. Starting from my own love of Homer that I dare express, I tum to a peculiar text about Homeric rhetoric, one not typically considered in the rhetorical tradition, [Plutarch] Essay on the Life and Poetry of Homer.
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
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Copyright © 2015 Lexington Books. This chapter first appeared in A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric.
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Recommended Citation
Mifsud, Mari Lee. "Beyond Syntax and Cities at War: Doing Rhetoric's History and Theory Alloiostrophically." In A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric, 65-81. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015.