Rhetoric category: 666 books
by Barry S. Brummett
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
“An accessible introduction to contemporary rhetorical theory and its applications in everyday life.”
—Cory Brewster, Eastern Oregon University
**Rhetoric in Popular Culture, Fifth Edition,**shows you how to apply growing and cutting-edge methods of critical studies to a full spectrum...
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
In Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of...
Presidents and Protestors
Political Rhetoric in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The “resounding rhetoric,” from Kennedy’s celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance...
Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential essays on the methodology, plus an interview.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our
understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the landscape of writing. Increasingly, all of us
must navigate networks of information, compose not just with computers but an array of
mobile devices, increase...
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An Anthology Of Women'S Rhetoric(s)
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC
Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho’s...
The Rhetoric of Pope Francis
Critical Mercy and Conversion for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
What is it about the rhetoric of one the most influential and powerful religious leaders in the world and in history—Pope Francis—that is so engaging and yet so challenging to the Church writ large, the American Congress, the news media, and the world? The Rhetoric of Pope Francis: Critical Mercy...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Images play an important role in developing consciousness and the relationship of the self to its surroundings. In this distinctive collection, editors Charles A. Hill and Marguerite Helmers examine the connection between visual images and persuasion, or how images act rhetorically upon viewers. Chapters...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cicero placed a high value on the importance of mastering the skill of rhetoric, which is the art of using language as a means to persuade. Such a skill was important especially in the practice of law and politics, of which he did both. In the "Treatise of Rhetorical Invention" Cicero outlines his theories...
by Michael Donnelly
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book is about Freedom of Speech and public discourse in the United States. Freedom of Speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social norms...
by Wayne C. Booth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible,...
Sexual Rhetorics
Methods, Identities, Publics
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Sexual rhetoric is the self-conscious and critical engagement with discourses of sexuality that exposes both their naturalization and their queering, their torquing to create different or counter-discourses, giving voice and agency to multiple and complex sexual experiences. This volume explores the...
Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric
Defending Academic Discourse against Postmodern Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
In *Political Literacy in Composition and Rhetoric, *Donald Lazere calls for revival of NCTE resolutions in the 1970s for teaching the “critical reading, listening, viewing, and thinking skills necessary to enable students to cope with the persuasive techniques in political statements, advertising,...
Authoring A Discipline
Scholarly Journals and the Post-world War Ii Emergence of Rhetoric and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Authoring a Discipline traces the post-World War II emergence of rhetoric and composition as a discipline within departments of English in institutions of higher education in the United States. Goggin brings to light both the evolution of this discipline and many of the key individuals involved in...