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  • Rhetorical Education In America

    by William N. Denman, Thomas P. Miller, Jill Swiencicki, Jill Swiencicki, Susan Kates, S. Michael Halloran, Gregory Clark, Sherry Booth, Susan Frisbie0, Laura J. Gurak1, Professor Shirley Wilson Logan5, Dr. Rich Lane6, Professor Nan Johnson7 ...
    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 action and social responsibility. Yet, questions of who should receive rhetorical education, in what form, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century

    Historiography, Pedagogy, and Politics

    by Adam J. Banks, Davida Charney, Suellynn Duffey, Lisa Ede, Elizabeth A. Flynn, Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Gerard Hauser, Shirely Brice Heath, Susan C. Jarratt, Nan Johnson, Shirley Wilson Logan, Alyssa O'Brien, John Ruszkiewicz, Bo Wang ...
    This collection of essays investigates the historiography of rhetoric, global perspectives on rhetoric, and the teaching of writing and rhetoric, offering diverse viewpoints. Addressing four major areas of research in rhetoric and writing studies, contributors consider authorship and audience, discuss the context and material conditions in which students compose, cover the politics of the field ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Shakespearean Educations

    Power, Citizenship, and Performance

    by Coppélia Kahn, Heather S. Nathans, Jennifer Mylander, Sandra M. Gustafson, Jonathan Burton, Nan Johnson, Elizabeth Renker, Denise Albanese0, Dayton Haskin1, Marvin McAllister2, Rosemary Kegl3, Theodore Leinwand4 ...
    Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Ambient Rhetoric

    The Attunements of Rhetorical Being

    by Thomas Rickert ...
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    In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied to the autonomy of human will and cognition as the sole determinants in the discursive act.Rickert ... Read more

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  • Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

    by George A. Kennedy ...
    Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion.Now, George Kennedy offers a thoroughly revised and updated edition of Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition. From its development in ancient ... Read more

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  • We Shall Fight on the Beaches

    The Speeches That Inspired History

    by Jacob F. Field ...
    Prefaced by brief historical and biographical introductions, the examples in this book show how words can be used to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse even the most seemingly hard-bitten of listeners. From rallying cries such as Garibaldi's 'To arms, then, all of you!' and Chou En-lai's 'We must hold aloft the great red banner' to sombre statements such as Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 'This ... Read more

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  • Reading Sounds

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    Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henchman's muttering in the background? Does the villain emit a scream, a grunt, or a howl as he goes down? And how do you note a gunshot without spoiling ... Read more

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  • Rhetoric and Power

    The Drama of Classical Greece

    by Nathan Crick ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    An insightful approach to classical Greek texts and practices as the wellspring for understanding rhetoric's relationship to authorityIn Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece beginning the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the ... Read more

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  • Coherence, Continuity, and Cohesion

    Theoretical Foundations for Document Design

    by Kim Sydow Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    There is a need for general theoretical principles describing/explaining effective design -- those which demonstrate "unity" and enhance comprehension and usability. Theories of cohesion from linguistics and of comprehension in psychology are likely sources of such general principles. Unfortunately, linguistic approaches to discourse unity have focused exclusively on semantic elements such as ... Read more

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  • A City of Marble

    The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome

    by Kathleen S. Lamp ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A transdisciplinary approach to the relationship between classical rhetoric and Augustan cultureIn A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence civic identity and participation in the Roman Principate ... Read more

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