In the rhetorical tradition, imitation is recognized as a generative,
inventional resource that allows an individual to "take experience apart and put it together in new ways" (Corbett 1971, 250).
Selection from the
inventional canister of "performance" also allowed successful metaphoric mapping of paraphiers related to celebrity, fame, excitement, and quality.
Ingrid Bartsch makes this point about science and rhetoric as she summarizes the work of Donna Haraway, who "echoes a pre-Platonic notion of rhetoric in which tropes and topoi are
inventional systems and not simply databases used to store and retrieve information":
See "An
Inventional Archaeology of 'A Fable for Tomorrow,'" in And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," ed.
The disclaimer at the end of the sentence identifies a reciprocity between the
inventional capacity and human social need, a dialectic between the creative and the material: "Even the metaphor, that figurative transfer of meaning, stands in the service of satisfying urgent needs" (p.
Memory served as 'the epistemological place where the
inventional materials of torture were assembled (dispositio) and rehearsed for performance (actio)' (61).
He is also defending champion at The Memorial, Jack Nicklaus' tournament which is also majorly in stature; the NEC
Inventional, a World Golf Championship event; and the Canadian Open.
Haraway echoes a pre-Platonic notion of rhetoric in which tropes and topoi are fertile
inventional systems and not simply replicated databases used to store and retrieve information.
It is a final
inventional rebellion against rebellion.
The
inventional nature of the architecture trope is clear in its twelfth-century use.
In light of these contextual constraints--the awareness of the story of Selma's unfulfilled promise, Clinton's own presidential record on race, and his lame duck status--one might conclude that Clinton's
inventional options were increasingly limited, his speech more likely to feature only the most uncontested parts of the Bloody Sunday narrative as if to suggest that Selma, too, had been a site of transcendence even if it was less clear that the results of that transcendence had been achieved.
