From the Other Side of a Doctoral Programme: A Reflection on the Nature of Rhetoric

Abstract

In their contribution, “From the Other Side of a Doctoral Programme,” Mirey Gorgis and Alexander Stagnell recall a discussion at Södertörn University during which they—as fresh-faced doctoral students—felt compelled to explain what rhetoric is. They co-authored a text, partly to provide an answer to that very question for the discipline’s professor, Lennart. Now, several years later, they revisit this text to reflect on how their perspective on rhetoric has evolved. In doing so, they note the extent to which Aristotle shaped their understanding of rhetoric at the time. The question, they observe in hindsight, is not what rhetoric is when it is “being itself,” but rather, quite simply, what it comes to mean today.

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APA

Gorgis, M., & Stagnell, A. (2022). Från andra sidan av en forskarutbildning: En reflektion över retorikens natur. In L. Källström & A. Sigrell (Eds.), Är man två har man alltid en publik: Festskrift till Lennart Hellspong (pp. 251–254). Lunds universitet.

@incollection{gorgis2022,
  author    = {Gorgis, Mirey and Stagnell, Alexander},
  title     = {Från andra sidan av en forskarutbildning: En reflektion över retorikens natur},
  booktitle = {Är man två har man alltid en publik: Festskrift till Lennart Hellspong},
  editor    = {Källström, Lisa and Sigrell, Anders},
  pages     = {251--254},
  series    = {Studia Rhetorica Lundensia},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {Lunds universitet},
  address   = {Lund},
  year      = {2022}
}