Rhetoric category: 666 books
Antebellum American Women's Poetry
A Rhetoric of Sentiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
At a time when a woman speaking before a mixed-gender audience risked acquiring the label “promiscuous,” thousands of women presented their views about social or moral issues through sentimental poetry, a blend of affect with intellect that allowed their participation in public debate. Bridging...
Metafilm
Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
In Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema, Christopher Carter examines paradoxical rhetoric in visual culture, analyzing movies that immerse viewers in violent narratives while examining the ethics of the transaction. Featuring the films of Michael Haneke, Atom Egoyan, Icíar Bollaín,...
Assembling Arguments
Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In Assembling Arguments, Jonathan Buehl offers a concentrated study of scientific argumentation that...
Voices in the Wilderness
Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America’s dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical tradition of 17th-century American Puritans. A work...
Writing against Racial Injury
The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. In offering an expanded, behind-the-scenes view of rhetorical methodologies, it advances the larger goal of differentiating the rhetoric of health and medicine as...
by Bruce Mccomiskey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is a timely exploration of the increasingly widespread and disturbing effect of “post-truth” on public discourse in the United States. Bruce McComiskey analyzes the instances of bullshit, fake news, feigned ethos, hyperbole, and other forms of post-truth rhetoric...
by Katharina E. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Rhetoric / Elocution / Oratory, grade: 1,3, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, course: Allgemeine Rhetorik, language: English, abstract: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has played a powerful role in shaping American public discourse...
The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong
Transforming China and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization. It was a transformation made possible largely by Mao’s rhetorical ability to attract, persuade, and...
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the...
Words Like Loaded Pistols
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
An entertaining history of great oratory." -- New Yorker
In Words Like Loaded Pistols, Sam Leith traces the art of persuasion, beginning in ancient Syracuse and taking us on detours as varied and fascinating as Elizabethan England, Milton's Satanic realm, the Springfield of Abraham Lincoln...
Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof
In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
When Kenneth Burke conceived his celebrated “Motivorum” project in the 1940s and 1950s, he envisioned it in three parts. Whereas the third part, A Symbolic of Motives, was never finished, A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950) have become canonical theoretical documents.
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Reality Bites
Rhetoric and the Circulation of Truth Claims in U.S. Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, *Reality Bites, *which explores truth claims in contemporary political rhetoric in the face of widespread skepticism regarding the utility,...