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- Title
Changing the Subject: A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy.
- Authors
Wilson, Gabriella
- Abstract
While Blankenship's rhetorical empathy offers a lot in terms of speaking across differences, it fails to deeply interrogate the examples it utilizes to shape a rhetorical empathy praxis. Blankenship is careful to outline how Addams comes to function as an example of rhetorical empathy to elucidate how rhetorical empathy operates as a praxis that becomes an "embodied identity" (p. 67). Building on her earlier assertions about storytelling and fostering rhetorical empathy, Blankenship argues for the importance of storytelling and personal experience in student writing. While she does not directly discuss WAC/WID theories, Blankenship's book discusses how to engage in rhetorical empathy within everyday contexts, which suggests the theory has a larger application and allows for a consideration of how rhetorical empathy informs pedagogical praxis.
- Subjects
EMPATHY; RHETORICAL theory; CHANGE theory; COMING out (Sexual orientation); FEMINIST theory
- Publication
Across the Disciplines, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 3/4, p278
- ISSN
1554-8244
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37514/ATD-J.2022.19.3-4.07