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Charles Altieri teaches modern American literature and literary theory at the University of California at Berkeley. The author of numerous books, his most recent is The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003). Don Bialostosky is Professor of English in the Composition, Literacy, and Pedagogy group at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author of two books on Wordsworth's poetics and co-editor of British Romanticism and the Rhetorical Tradition . He has published widely on Bakhtin and rhetoric and is now at work on a book on Bakhtinian rhetoric and poetics. Wayne C. Booth was born in American Fork, Utah, in 1921, and was raised as a devout Mormon. As he pursued academic questions at Brigham Young University (BA), he wrestled – without ever thinking of the word “rhetoric” – with conflicts between official Mormon rhetoric and the rhetoric of major Western thinkers. Then, as a deeply conflicted Mormon missionary (1942–4), he slowly discovered the resources of what he now calls rhetorology: the pursuit of a rhetoric relying on the common ground one hopes to find underlying any controversy. As a student at the University of Chicago, and later as a professor there, he slowly discovered the history and importance of rhetorical studies. As his chapter here recounts, that discovery was the main influence on most of his publications. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle is an ... log in or subscribe to read full text