Studies in Rhetoric & Communication Series

69 primary works • 69 total works
The University of South Carolina Press
Human Communication as Narration: Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action
This book addresses questions that have concerned …
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Freedom of Expression and Partisan Politics
Examines the history of tensions and the contempor…
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The Sixth Canon: Belletristic Rhetorical Theory and Its French Antecedents
In the eighteenth century, Scottish rhetoricians H…
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The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis
The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis …
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Ars Poetriae: Rhetorical and Grammatical Invention at the Margin of Literacy
In this study of thirteenth-century poetry and pro…
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Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists: The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750
The Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists illumin…
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Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women
Fresh interpretations of women's speaking and writ…
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Lives of Their Own: Rhetorical Dimensions in Autobiographies of Women Activists
How five exceptional turn-of-the-century women cra…
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The Rhetorical Imagination of Kenneth Burke
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· 3 Ratings · published 2001 · 3 editions
Understanding an enigmatic rhetorician and social …
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Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
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· 1 Ratings · published 2001 · 3 editions
A critical reevaluation of the words of a classica…
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Strategies of Remembrance: The Rhetorical Dimensions of National Identity Construction
An analysis of how public arguments centered on "t…
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The Humane Particulars: The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke
An illuminating conversation between poet and crit…
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Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric
Reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contr…
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Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke
At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of…
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Rhetoric in Martial Deliberations and Decision Making: Cases and Consequences
In this study of the discourse involved in martial…
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Rhetorics of Display
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· 17 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2006 · 4 editions
Groundbreaking case studies mapping the rhetoric i…
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Letter-Writing Manuals and Instruction from Antiquity to the Present: Historical and Bibliographic Studies
An in-depth history of epistolary instruction from…
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Pragmatism, Democracy, and the Necessity of Rhetoric
An exploration into the development of the rhetori…
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Identity's Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion
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· 6 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 1 edition
In Identity's Strategy, Dana Anderson seeks to co…
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Rhetoric and Community: Studies in Unity and Fragmentation
In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen leading schol…
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Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education
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· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1997 · 3 editions
This volume considers Isocrates' educational progr…
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The Call of Conscience : Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate
This study considers the relationship between the …
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Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres
Thoughtful case studies on the power and responsib…
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Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
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· 15 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1995 · 5 editions
An introduction to the rhetorical tradition of sop…
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Patient Tales: Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry
In this engrossing study of tales of mental illnes…
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Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism
A fresh approach to understanding Kenneth Burke's …
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Listening to the Logos: Speech and the Coming of Wisdom in Ancient Greece
An exploration of the role of language arts in for…
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Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming
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· 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
An innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric…
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Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
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· 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2004 · 5 editions
This specialised study of ancient rhetoric compare…
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The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China: A Rhetorical Perspective
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong i…
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Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E: A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric
In Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Centu…
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Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership
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· 7 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 4 editions
Battle The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership is now a …
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Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language
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· 19 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 8 editions
Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories o…
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Prisoners of Conscience: Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun b…
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Managing Vulnerability: South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric
A detailed account of the struggle to cultivate co…
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Speaking Hermeneutically: Understanding in the Conduct of a Life
A fruitful consideration of the interplay of herme…
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Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistical Argument
A complex and complete picture of the theory, prac…
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Rhetorics and Technologies: New Directions in Writing and Communication
Recognizing an increasingly technological context …
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The Genuine Teachers of This Art: Rhetorical Education in Antiquity
The Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the tech…
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The Public Work of Rhetoric: Citizen-Scholars and Civic Engagement
The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rh…
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Breast or Bottle?: Contemporary Controversies in Infant Feeding Policy and Practice
Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examinati…
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Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies
Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen ori…
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Figuring Style: The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric
Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep in…
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A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome
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· 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 6 editions
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that cla…
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Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
A collection examining Dewey's influence on effect…
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You Can't Padlock an Idea: Rhetorical Education at the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1961
You Can't Padlock an Idea examines the educational…
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Rhetorical Touch: Disability, Identification, Haptics
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· 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 4 editions
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of to…
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Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece
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· 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2014 · 8 editions
Through Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatize…
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Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
A critical exploration of the ways public particip…
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The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects: Past, Present, Future
The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effect…
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Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship
An examination of President Obama's oratory as a r…
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Assembling Arguments: Multimodal Rhetoric and Scientific Discourse
Scientific arguments―and indeed arguments in most …
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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication
A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its…
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The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis
History tells us that on a day when the forces of …
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Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past
Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which …
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Textual Curation: Authorship, Agency, and Technology in Wikipedia and the Chambers' Cyclopædia
Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaborativ…
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The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People
A thorough examination of the Chinese leader's spe…
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Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato
A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings th…
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The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism
Examines transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorica…
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Introducing Science through Images: Cases of Visual Popularization
As funding for basic scientific research becomes i…
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The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument
In a world of ever-increasing medical technology, …
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Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics
Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularie…
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Kenneth Burke's Permanence and Change: A Critical Companion
Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke's Per…
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Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis
Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoana…
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Diagnosing Madness: The Discursive Construction of the Psychiatric Patient, 1850-1920
Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic ne…
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Market Affect and the Rhetoric of Political Economic Debates
What explains the "triumph of capitalism"? Why do …
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Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
Romantic letters are central to understanding same…
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Like Wildfire: The Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Sit-Ins
"The sit-ins of the American civil rights movement…
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On Fire: Five Civil Rights Sit-Ins and the Rhetoric of Protest
The social, political, and legal struggles that ma…
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