Rhetoric category: 666 books
Nonviolence Ain't What It Used To Be
Unarmed Insurrection and the Rhetoric of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
"Shon Meckfessel . . . brings a fresh perspective to the stubborn debates around violence and nonviolence and suggests a way to move beyond the left's tactical impasse. Nonviolence Ain't What It Used to Be won't settle the old argument, but it may start a new one."—Kristian Williams, Our Enemies...
Rethinking Ethos
A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Labels traditionally ascribed to women—mother, angel of the house, whore, or bitch—suggest character traits that do not encompass the complexities of women’s identities or empower women’s public speaking. Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric redefines the concept of...
Spiritual Modalities
Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer “works,” Spiritual Modalities reads prayer’s situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and...
The Keys of Power
The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Transcendentalists that interprets a selection of their major works between the years 1821 and 1852 as political and ethical responses to the growing crises of their times. In The Keys of Power, Crick argues that one of the most...
Jewish Rhetorics
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate the editors’ definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance as allowing speakers to maintain a “resolute...
Discursive Framings of Human Rights
Negotiating Agency and Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social...
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes...
by James Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
During the early years of the Cold War, racial segregation in the American South became an embarrassing liability to the international reputation of the United States. For America to present itself as a model of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union's totalitarianism, Jim Crow needed to end. While...
The Writer's Book of Memory
An Interdisciplinary Study for Writing Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Memory has long been ignored by rhetoricians because the written word has made memorization virtually obsolete. Recently however, as part of a revival of interest in classical rhetoric, scholars have begun to realize that memory offers vast possibilities for today's writers. Synthesizing research...
Managing Vulnerability
South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South Africa’s desire for reconciliation and contends that this goal could be achieved only through the...
Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theories, has become a landmark of rhetorical theory. Using new archival sources and contextualizing Burke in the past and present, Ann George offers the first sustained exploration...
by Marouf Hasian Jr., Sean Lawson, Megan D. McFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The Rhetorical Invention of America’s National Security State examines the rhetoric and discourse produced by and constitutive of America’s national security state. Hasian, Lawson, and McFarlane illustrate the importance of rhetoric to the expansion of the American national security state in the...
The Mark of Criminality
Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop
In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era,...
Genre in the Classroom
Multiple Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
For the first time, the major theoretical and pedagogical approaches to genre and related issues of social construction are presented in a single volume, providing an overview of the state of the art for practitioners in applied linguistics, ESL/EFL pedagogies, rhetoric, and composition studies around...