“… ‘theory’ now had its specialist protocols remote from the market-place and public forum, untainted by truck with the masses [...] that had rejected the ‘dialogism’ of ancient rhetoric for a resolutely monologic cast. Reasoning, Ong remarks, wanted to dispense with words, since ‘these annoyingly hint that in some mysterious way thinking itself is always [...]
Tags: ancient rhetoric, audiences, calvinist, dialogism, history of rhetoric, Kuyperian, marxist literary criticism, Monologic, oppression, political vision, science of rhetoric, techniques of persuasion, terry eagleton, Theorizers
