Rhetoric category: 666 books
Winning Arguments
What Works and Doesn't Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to ‘Married with Children’ to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that understanding can lead to victory” — New York Times Book Review
A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class...
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
by Izora Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Though the term Ciceronianism could be applied to Cicero's influence and teaching in the field of politics, philosophy, or rhetoric, it is limited in the present study to the technical department of rhetoric. In addition, it represents the trend of literary opinion in regard to accepting Cicero as...
In the Archives of Composition
Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In the Archives of Composition offers new and revisionary narratives of composition and rhetoric’s history. It examines composition instruction and practice at secondary schools and normal colleges, the two institutions that trained the majority of U.S. composition teachers and students during the...
Reason's Dark Champions
Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission...
The Style and Rhetoric of Elizabeth Dole
Public Persona and Political Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book analyses the public discourse of Elizabeth Dole. It explores the way in which this trail-blazing public figure navigated the double binds that confront women who obtain and exercise political power. The text argues that Dole crafted a conservative, feminine persona in which she depicted...
Demosthenes' "On the Crown"
Rhetorical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Demosthenes’ speech On the Crown (330 B.C.E.), in which the master orator spectacularly defended his public career, has long been recognized as a masterpiece. The speech has been in continuous circulation from Demosthenes’ lifetime to the present day, and multiple generations have acclaimed it...
Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction
Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this covert...
Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries
The Rhetoric of Lines across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls...
Rhetorical Strategies for Composition
Cracking an Academic Code
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Cracking an Academic Code: Rhetorical Strategies for Composition is a worktext designed for composition students to apply rhetorical theory in their writing. The exercises interconnect rhetorical skill work for students to practice "thinking on paper" in style, language, and conventions....
Tropic Tendencies
Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain...
by Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith Pfister, Scott Haden Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: classical models of argumentation and modern modes of digital communication
What can ancient rhetorical theory possibly tell us about the role of new digital media technologies in contemporary public culture? Some central issues we...
Text + Field
Innovations in Rhetorical Method
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead...
by Wendy Ryden, Ian Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In this volume, Ryden and Marshall bring together the field of composition and rhetoric with critical whiteness studies to show that in our "post race" era whiteness and racism not only survive but actually thrive in higher education. As they examine the effects of racism on contemporary...