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Modern and Postmodern

  • Roughly the greater 20th century
  • Rhetoric fragmenting into different subjects 
    • Composition
      • Pedagogically oriented
      • Larger audience
      • Something of a remedial reputation
    • Speech/Communication
      • Recovered the canon of memory, but recapitulated into practice
      • Elocution
    • English Literature
      • developing the concepts of the belle lettres
  • Standardization vs. multiple methodologies
  • Purification of language or creation of a new, value-free language
  • Interest in ideology, power, and identity

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