Michael,
We're reading your "On the End of Rhetoric," and your "Reflections on the End of Rhetoric" in our graduate modern rhetoric class. I don't know if you're checking e-mail this summer, but if you are, would you be willing to respond to the following questions, and allow me to forward your answer to the students, perhaps even placing it on our on-line syllabus?
We notice that TER seems to have a strong postmodern flavor to it even though you think of the author as a unified whole.
1. Do you think TER reflects a postmodern position (without the terminology) or is it really still modern?
2. Is it perhaps existential? If so, where does existentialism fit in the modernism/postmodernism world?
3. Finally, is the fragmentation of the author the key to postmodernism, and if so, what can ethos be in a postmodern world?
Dale Sullivan
815-753-1622
dsulliva@niu.edu
http://www.niu.edu/acCad/engClish/wac/sullivan.html