The taming of Polos/Polis: rhetoric as an achievement without woman

• Jane Sutton ^[1]
  1. [1] Pennsylvania State University

     Pennsylvania State University

     Borough of State College, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 57, nº 2, 1991 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Feminist criticism), págs. 97-119
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.