Lynette Hunter is Professor of the History of Rhetoric at University of Leeds. She is the author of several books including Rhetorical Space, Outsider Notes: Feminist Approaches to Ideology, Modern Allegory and Fantasy and Writing/Reading, and Publishing

• Introduction 1. The Ethos of the Nation State: Idelology, Discourse and Standpoint 2. Rhetoric and Artificial Intellegence: Computing applications in the sciences, Computing applications in the arts. 3. AI and Representation: A Study of a rhetorical context for intellectual legitimacy 4. The Socialising of Context: Methodologies for Hypertext Topical reasoning in the history of rhetoric Topical reasoning in hypertexts 5. Feminist Critiques of Science: From Standpoint to Rhetorical Stance Recapitulation Bridgework 6. A Feminist Critique of the Rhetorical Stance o Contemporary Aesthetics: Alternative StandpointsFootnotesBibliography

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