Rhetoric category: 666 books
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election
Her Political and Social Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election: Her Political and Social Discourse is anedited collection that demonstrates the ways in which Clinton has used political rhetoric and discourse to provide and assert her right to leadership in her many roles as First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary...
Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Writing and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Recognizing an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices. Edited by Stuart...
Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age
The Transhuman Condition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics...
Toward a Civil Discourse
Rhetoric and Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2006
Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses--liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different...
by Katherine Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
At the beginning of the 20th century, Progressive reformers set up curricula in journalism, public relations, and creative writing to fulfill their own purposes: well-trained rhetors could convince the United States citizenry to accept Progressive thinking on monopolies and unions and to elect reform...
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse
The Religious Creativity of Evangelical Student Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals...
Rhetorical Agendas
Political, Ethical, Spiritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
This edited collection offers a broad consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical, and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in...
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as...
by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet,...
Readings in Writing Courses
Replacing Literature in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the title suggests, this sixchapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read? Primarily historical, the first two chapters trace conflicting answers to the question...
by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Shirley Wilson Logan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A timely collection of essays by prominent scholars in the field—on the past, present, and future of rhetoric instruction.
From Isocrates and Aristotle to the present, rhetorical education has consistently been regarded as the linchpin of a participatory democracy, a tool to foster civic...
Praising Girls
The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls’ public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative...
Rhetoric and Discourse in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Sensemaking in Judicial Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
While legal scholars, psychologists, and political scientists commonly voice their skepticism over the influence oral arguments have on the Court’s voting pattern, this book offers a contrarian position focused on close scrutiny of the justices’ communication within oral arguments. Malphurs examines...
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama
The Price and Promise of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill...