Roberta Binkley and Marissa Smith’s Re-Composing Space: Composition’s Rhetorical Geography focuses on the effect geographical space has on rhetoric and compositions. They revive Athenian thoughts and discuss how they can apply to rhetorical composition today. On the contrast, Binkley and Smith also discuss the flaws, or shortcomings, of ancient rhetorical theories due to their limitation of “space”. Binkley and Smith quote multiple outside scholars to strengthen their arguments, such as Nedra Reynolds, who said “Places, whether textual, material, or imaginary, are constructed and reproduced not simply by boundaries but also by practices, structures of feelings and sedimented features of habitus.”. Reynolds’ solidifies what I believe is
