Traditions of Eloquence

Cinthia Gannett is Associate Professor of English at Fairfield University, where she directs the Core Writing Program. John C. Brereton is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Foreword by John O'Malley, S.J. Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Backward, Moving Forward Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton Part I. Historical Sites and Scenes of Jesuit Rhetorical Practice, Scholarship, and Pedagogy Historical Notes on Rhetoric in Jesuit Education Patricia Bizzell Rhetorical Veri-similitudo: Cicero, Probabilism, and Jesuit Casuistry Robert Maryks Loyola's Literacy Narrative: Writing and Rhetoric in The Autobiography of Saint Ignatius Loyola Thomas Deans Ladder of Contemplation vs. A Pilgrim's Staff: The Rhetoric of Agency and Emotional Eloquence in St. Ignatius' The Spiritual Exercises Maureen A.J. Fitzsimmons St. Francis de Sales and Jesuit Rhetorical Education Thomas Worcester, S.J. Black Robes/Good Habits: Jesuits and Early Women's Education in North America Carol Mattingly The Changing Practice of Liberal Education and Rhetoric in Jesuit Education: 1600-2000 David Leigh, S.J. Part II. Post-Suppression Jesuit Rhetorical Education in the US: Loss and Renewal in the Modern Era The Jesuits and Rhetorical Studies in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America John Brereton Rhetorical Ways of Proceeding: Eloquentia Perfecta in American Jesuit Colleges Steven Mailloux Jesuit Rhetorical Education in Professional Writing in 19th and 20th Century American Jesuit Colleges Katherine H. Adams Walter Ong, S.J.: A Jesuit Rhetorical Scholar and Interdisciplinary Educator Janice Lauer Rice Edward P. J. Corbett, the Revival of Classical Rhetoric, and the Jesuit Tradition Gerald Nelms Bernard Lonergan's Rhetorical Resonances: A Preliminary Inquiry Paula Mathieu Paulo Freire and the Jesuit Tradition: The Relationship between Jesuit Rhetoric and Freirean Pedagogy Thomas Pace Part III. Jesuit Rhetoric and Ignatian Pedagogy: Applications, Innovations, and Challenges Eloquentia Imperfecta: The Unfinished Business of Eloquentia Perfecta in Twenty-First Jesuit Higher Education Cinthia Gannett The New Eloquentia Perfecta Curriculum at Fordham Anne Fernald and Kate M. Nash Jesuit Rhetoric and the Core Curriculum at Loyola Marymount University K.J. Peters Jesuit Ethos, Faculty-Owned Assessment, and the Organic Development of Rhetoric Across the Curriculum at Seattle University John C. Bean, Larry C. Nichols, and Jeffrey S. Philpott Cura Personalis in Practice: Rhetoric's Modern Legacy Karen Surman Paley Service-Learning and the Rhetoric of Discernment: Reality Working Through Resistance Ann E. Green Networking Rhetoric for Jesuit Education in a New World Jenn Fishman and Rebecca S. Nowacek What We Talk about When We Talk about Voice: Reintegrating the Oral in the Current Writing Classroom Vincent Casaregola Reflection: Echoes of Jesuit Principles in Rhetorical Theories, Pedagogies, and Praxes Krista Ratcliffe Afterword: Technology, Diversity, and the Impression of Mission Joseph Janangelo