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The editors and contributors to this volume illuminate many of the tensions in the field of rhetoric and composition studies, thereby contributing to postprocess pedagogy and post-postmodernist rhetoric. They also honor the late Jim Corder, whose body of work reconciles opposites, provides a sustained search for ethos, offers a prophet's call for the commodiousness of language and voice, and attempts to answer the ubiquitous question of why people listen to some but not others. Explaining the scope and role of rhetoric in contemporary scholarship, the book is divided into four parts. Part I contextualizes and highlights the emergence of a fledgling discipline during the 1970s. Part II is an exploration of Jim Corder's work, including analyses of several of his essays and texts. Part III investigates and interrogates various trajectories, vectors, possibilities, and extensions of Corder's rhetoric. Part IV offers future direction for some current issues. This book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of rhetoric and composition in departments of English and scholars in communication studies.