Rhetoric

How nineteenth-century women used the Bible to claim their voice on the moral questions of their day Caught between their identity as Christians and social norms that silenced them, American women used scripture to claim moral and then rhetorical agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426171Author Mariya TseptsuraFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

In Performing Prose, authors Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth breathe new life into traditional concepts of style. Drawing on numerous examples from a wide range of authors and genres, Holcomb and Killingsworth demonstrate the use of style as a...

Like every discipline, Rhetorical Studies relies on a technical vocabulary to convey specialized concepts, but few disciplines rely so deeply on a set of terms developed so long ago. Pathos, kairos, doxa, topos-these and others originate from the...

Mass shootings have become the "new normal" in American life. The same can be said for the public debate that follows a shooting: blame is cast, political postures are assumed, but no meaningful policy changes are enacted. In After Gun...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426225Author Amy CicchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646426218Author Asao B InoueFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Fred Rogers is an American cultural and media icon, whose children's television program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ran for more than thirty years (1967-2001) on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). In this highly original book, Alexandra C. Klaren...

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This book offers a timely examination of communication and contemporary political culture in the United States and the specific forces, factors, and dynamics that have contributed to increasing democratic dysfunction and violence. Informed by their novel...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells's efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes-racial, social, and gender equity.Book InformationISBN 9780817322175Author Mary E. TrieceFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint...

The editors and authors in this edited collection, available in two volumes, consider the increasing importance of students' and teachers' lived experiences within the development and use of writing assessments. Presenting key work published in The...

Pinpoints the persuasive strategies that typified Wells's efforts to shape broader cultural conversations concerning the causes-racial, social, and gender equity.Book InformationISBN 9780817361792Author Mary E. TrieceFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint...

Rhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy rooted in the American pragmatist tradition. Robert Danisch analyzes the characteristics of communication...

The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since "argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced," says Chaim Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they...

As colleges and universities have responded to the demand of businesses and industries for graduates who can write effectively, Composition Studies has gained significance. However, while new theories and approaches to the teaching of writing have been...

"Teaching Academic Writing" examines the issues that confront teachers of academic writing classes. In a series of ten teacher-focused chapters, Friedrich offers practical advice and solutions in areas of teaching, assessment and feedback."Teaching...

Countermemory: A Rhetoric of Resistance investigates the interdisciplinary dimensions of countermemory through a rhetorical lens by drawing upon a mixed-methodological approach that includes site-based analysis, participant observation, textual analysis,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215340Author Donnie Johnson SackeyFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259160Author Donnie Johnson SackeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

A fascinating survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.To an American, oligarchy is something that happens somewhere else. In Oligarchy in America, Luke...

Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher's most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg's Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled 'Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199338344Author Professor Teresa ThonneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 152mm * 226mm...

Articulating Life's Memory offers a unique view of the history of abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer's work moves beyond general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on...

Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric is an authoritative reference work designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the theory of invitational rhetoric, developed twenty-five years ago by Sonja K. Foss and Cindy L. Griffin...

Rhetoric and composition scholar Donna LeCourt combines theoretical inquiry, qualitative research, and rhetorical analysis to examine what it means to write for the "public" in an age when the distinctions between public and private have eroded. Public...

Water, Rhetoric, and Social Justice: A Critical Confluence examines how individuals and communities have responded on a global scale to present day water crises as matters of social justice, through oratory, mass demonstration, deliberation, testimony,...

Legitimization of Mormon Feminist Rhetors studies how marginalized groups use rhetorical strategies to craft legitimacy for themselves and how those in positions of power work to maintain their authority. Kinney uses archival research to parse the...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleWhere is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully...

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of "emergent metalepsis" that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events, blurring the boundary between the storyworld and the world of reception. Christopher Carter treats...

Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the masculinity concept as it brings to bear on males' self-image, role in society, media representations of them,...

Articulating Life's Memory offers a unique view of the history of abortion in early America. Nathan Stormer's work moves beyond general histories of medicine, science, and women; it provides specific insight into how the earliest medical writings on...

Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures.Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish,...

Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how...

Rhetorics of Nepantla, Memory, and the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua Papers: Archival Impulses explores the intersection of Chicana/o/x studies, Latina/o/x studies, archival studies, and public memory by examining the archival homes of cultural critic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554813049Author Christopher ThaissFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm)...

Reverend Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Prophetic Tradition: A Reintroduction of The Black Messiah considers how Albert Cleage Jr., in his groundbreaking book of sermons, The Black Messiah (1969), reconfigures the rules of the game as it relates to...

Illuminates one of the most widely used yet poorly understood concepts in contemporary discourse, as apt and relevant to democracy in America as it is to Eastern Europe and Putin's Russia.Book InformationISBN 9780817361549Author Luke WinslowFormat...

How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a...

Offers a rich interpretation of the region's vexed history through a detailed study of the commemorative practices enacted-and withheld-at a landmark American museum.Book InformationISBN 9780817322083Author Greg DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count...