Rhetoric category: 666 books
by Karen Schroeder Sorensen
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos inspires audiences to look at the universe with new eyes and to appreciate humanity’s importance in it. Sagan’s deft use of rhetorical strategy creates an experience that pushes beyond the limits of a mere “educational” program to reveal a mythic adventure. Although Sagan...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators (2nd Edition) presents the major issues and questions in the field of writing program administration. The collection provides aspiring, new, and seasoned WPAs with the theoretical lenses, terminologies, historical contexts, and research they need to understand the nature, history, and complexities of their intellectual and administrative work.
Networking Arguments
Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Networking Arguments presents an original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally,...
Rhetorica in Motion
Feminist Rhetorical Methods and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2010
Rhetorica in Motion is the first collected work to investigate feminist rhetorical research methods in both contemporary and historical contexts. The contributors analyze the decision-making processes and methodologies employed in deciphering the origins, meanings, theories, workings, and manifestations...
Surrender
Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
In an ethnographic study spanning the last years of research collaborator and friend Susan Lundy Maute’s life with terminal breast cancer, author Jessica Restaino argues the interpretative challenges posed by research and writing amid illness and intimacy demand a methodological break from accepted...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
The greatest orator of the late Roman Republic, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), influenced the course of European letters for centuries after his death. Through his writings, Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars encountered the riches of Classical rhetoric and philosophy. The elegance of...
Compelling Confessions
The Politics of Personal Disclosure
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Compelling Confessions: The Politics of Personal Disclosure is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As various contributors to this collection demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous...
Speaking Hermeneutically
Understanding in the Conduct of a Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that we begin to realize their potential for radically remaking the...
Tasteful Domesticity
Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook, 1790-1940
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Tasteful Domesticity demonstrates how women marginalized by gender, race, ethnicity, and class used the cookbook as a rhetorical space in which to conduct public discussions of taste and domesticity. Taste discourse engages cultural values as well as physical constraints, and thus serves as a bridge...
The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property
Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly,...
Craft Obsession
The Social Rhetorics of Beer
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Denied access to traditional advertising platforms by lack of resources, craft breweries have proliferated despite these challenges by embracing social media platforms, and by creating an obsessed culture of fans. In Craft Obsession, Jeff Rice uses craft beer as a case study to demonstrate how social...
Pedagogies of Public Memory
Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Memorials, and Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Pedagogies of Public Memory explores opportunities for writing and rhetorical education at museums, archives, and memorials. Readers will follow students working and writing at well-known sites of international interest (e.g., the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and the U.S....
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to...