Rhetoric category: 666 books
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing...
Rhetorical Touch
Disability, Identification, Haptics
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exclude. In resistance to a rhetorical tradition focused on shaping able bodies and neurotypical minds,...
John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier - The rhetoric and the political results
The rhetoric and the political results
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 1,0, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar 'American West - Myths of the Frontier', 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This work examines...
Ancient Rhetoric
From Aristotle to Philostratus
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtroom, the legislature, or on ceremonial occasions, and was described as either the art of the persuasion or the art of speaking well....
Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This collection of essays by Walter J. Ong focuses on the complex and dynamic relationship between verbal performance and cultural evolution. By studying the history of rhetoric and related arts from classical antiquity through the age of romanticism to the modern period, Ong both illuminates the...
Women's Professional Lives in Rhetoric and Composition
Choice, Chance, and Serendipity
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2018
This collection, edited by Elizabeth A. Flynn and Tiffany Bourelle, contributes to the valuable work of chronicling the professional and personal lives of women in academia. Through its line-up of contributors from diverse backgrounds, locations, and career paths,* Women’s Professional Lives in...
by James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, Michael Hoppmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each...
by Jennifer Wingard
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Branded Bodies, Rhetoric, and the Neoliberal Nation-State, by Dr. Jennifer Wingard,explores how neoliberal economics has affected the rhetoric of the media and politics, and how in very direct, material ways it harms the bodies of some of the United States’ most vulnerable occupants. The book is...
Rhetorical Democracy
Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2004
This collection presents theoretical, critical, applied, and pedagogical questions and cases of publics and public spheres, examining these contexts as sources and sites of civic engagement. Reflecting the current state of rhetorical theory and research, the contributions arise from the 2002 conference...
Trained Capacities
John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey’s wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture’s fundamental conflicts between self and society,...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Legacy of Dissent
Feminist Rhetoric and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rhetorical analysis of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s feminist jurisprudence
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lifelong effort to reshape the language of American law has had profound consequences: she has shifted the rhetorical boundaries of jurisprudence on a wide range of fundamental issues from...
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition
Communication from Ancient Times to the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
This reference guide surveys the field, covering rhetoric's principles, concepts, applications, practical tools, and major thinkers. Drawing on the scholarship and expertise of 288 contributors, the Encyclopedia presents a long-needed overview of rhetoric and its role in contemporary education and...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural...
Jean Baudrillard
The Rhetoric of Symbolic Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Jean Baudrillard has been studied as sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. Brian Gogan establishes him as a rhetorician, demonstrating how the histories, traditions, and practices of rhetoric prove central to his use of language. In addition to Baudrillard’s...