"Rhetoric includes “performative” uses of language that make a difference in one’s relation to the object of study. Th…"

"Rhetoric highlights the problem of how one reads texts. It even raises the question of whether historians are trained…"

"Rhetoric exceeds not only documentary or referential but all utilitarian, workaday, and instrumental functions of lan…"

"Rhetoric engages the dialectic of recognition among speakers, of which certain forms of persuasion are only the monol…"

"Rhetoric raises the issues of ambivalence and role tension in language use and their relation to the interaction of d…"

"The lack of attention to the problem of rhetoric, or the simple dichotomy between science and rhetoric, induces a ten…"

"Historiography today is not in that state of fermentation to be found in fields such as literary criticism and Contin…"

"At present, historians are quite willing to listen to neighbors in the social sciences, but the less manageable contr…"

"Contemporary sociocultural history was in part motivated by a justifiable revolt against an abstracted history of ide…"

"I have no synoptic formula for resolving the various problems I have tried to raise. I would simply end by saying tha…"