The Practice of Rhetoric: Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

Debra Hawhee is McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and Professor of English and of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University. She is author of Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation; Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language; and Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Vessela Valiavitcharska is associate professor of language, rhetoric, and writing in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. She is author of Rhetoric and Rhythm in Byzantium: The Sound of Persuasion.