TY - JOUR
T1 - The taming of Polos/Polis
T2 - Rhetoric as an achievement without woman
AU - Sutton, Jane
PY - 1992/3
Y1 - 1992/3
N2 - This essay describes how “rhetoric” came to be written historically in relation to woman's body. It shows how rhetoric, etymologically linked with both woman and horse, was progressively “tamed” into a non‐threatening force, and also how rhetoric/woman/horse simultaneously has resisted this taming. Using a collage procedure to cut and paste textual fragments of writing about rhetoric, the essay constructs an archetypal narrative plot that proceeds tropologically—metaphorically, metonymically, synecdochically, and ironcially—to domesticate and unleash rhetoric/woman/horse.
AB - This essay describes how “rhetoric” came to be written historically in relation to woman's body. It shows how rhetoric, etymologically linked with both woman and horse, was progressively “tamed” into a non‐threatening force, and also how rhetoric/woman/horse simultaneously has resisted this taming. Using a collage procedure to cut and paste textual fragments of writing about rhetoric, the essay constructs an archetypal narrative plot that proceeds tropologically—metaphorically, metonymically, synecdochically, and ironcially—to domesticate and unleash rhetoric/woman/horse.
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U2 - 10.1080/10417949209372857
DO - 10.1080/10417949209372857
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78049346365
SN - 1041-794X
VL - 57
SP - 97
EP - 119
JO - Southern Communication Journal
JF - Southern Communication Journal
IS - 2
ER -