James Berlin
From RhetorClick
James Berlin(1942 – 1994) was a scholar of composition studies whose work was often concerned with rhetorical topics. He worked as a professor of English at Wichita State University, as well as at Purdue University. He is credited by Donald Jones as one of the founders for expressivism as a respected composition theory. [1]
Books
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE, 1996.
Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges. 1900-1985. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.
Writing Instruction in Nineteenth-Century American Colleges. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1984.
Major Articles and Chapters
"Cultural Studies." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. NY: Garland, 1996. 154-56.
"Poststructuralism, Cultural Studies, and the Composition Classroom." Rhetoric Review 11 (Fall 1992): 16-33. Rpt. Professing the New Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart C. Brown. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994. 461-480.
"Revisionary Histories of Rhetoric: Politics, Power, and Plurality." Writing Histories of Rhetoric, ed. Victor J. Vitanza. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 112-127.
"Composition Studies and Cultural Studies: Collapsing Boundaries." Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies. Ed. Anne Ruggles Gere. NY: MLA,1993. 99-116.
"Composition and Cultural Studies." Composition and Resistance. Eds. Hurlbert, C. Mark and Michael Blitz. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.
"Postmodernism, Politics, and Histories of Rhetorics." PRE/TEXT 11.3-4 (1990): 169-187.
"Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class." College English 50 (1988): 477-494.
Berlin, James A., et al. Octalog. "The Politics of Historiography." Rhetoric Review 7 (1988): 5-49.
"Revisionary History: The Dialectical Method." PRE/TEXT 8.1-2 (1987): 47-61.
"Rhetoric and Poetics in the English Department: Our Nineteenth-Century Inheritance." College English 47 (1985): 531-533.
"Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories." College English 44 (1982): 765-777.
Berlin, James A., and Robert P. Inkster. "Current-Traditional Rhetoric: Paradigm and Practice." Freshman English News 8. 3 (Winter 1980): 1-4, 13-14.
"Richard Whately and Current-Traditional Rhetoric." College English 42 (September 1980): 10-17. [2]
