Detroit and the closed fist: Toward a theory of material rhetoricFootnote¹

An earlier version of this article was presented as a paper at the 1997 Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Thanks to Ellen Barton and Pat Bruch for their readings of earlier drafts. Thanks also to RR reviewers Stuart C. Brown and Edward Schiappa for their careful and thought‐provoking reviews.

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