Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique – serie
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Lacan in Public
Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric
Häftad, 2018
319 kr
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Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s entire body of work.Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, …
Rhetoric of Fascism
Av Patrick D. Anderson, Rya Butterfield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
621 kr
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Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appealsFascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators to begin using the …
Countermemory
A Rhetoric of Resistance
Av April L. O'Brien, James Chase Sanchez
Häftad, 2025
395 kr
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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, and historiography. The authors apply these …
Stepping Into Zion
Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
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By studying the multiracial Jewish organisation Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimer’s Stepping into Zion considers the question “Who is a Jew?” - a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike.Hatzaad Harishon (“The First Step”) was a New York-based, …
Rhetorical Exposures
Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate the political dimensions of photographs that highlight social injustice.Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical …
Everest Effect
Nature, Culture, Ideology
Inbunden, 2015
453 kr
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In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to technologies used in climbs. By highlighting the intersections of technology and cultural ideologies …
Politics of the Superficial
Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
Av Brett Ommen
Inbunden, 2016
524 kr
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In The Politics of the Superficial: Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display, Brett Ommen explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. He shows that graphic design is a layered experience of images and space. Before images, viewers engage in the …
Field Rhetoric
Ethnography, Ecology, and Engagement in the Places of Persuasion
Av Candice Rai, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
Inbunden, 2018
621 kr
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A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric and fieldwork.A variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical …
Desiring the Bomb
Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
Inbunden, 2018
549 kr
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A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age.Every culture throughout history has obsessed over various “end of the world” scenarios. The dawn of the Atomic Age marked a new twist in this …
Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions
Av Ian Barnard
Inbunden, 2020
565 kr
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Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender. In Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions, Ian Barnard makes the counter-intuitive argument that contemporary …
Feminist Connections
Rhetoric and Activism Across Time, Space, and Place
Av Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
677 kr
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Highlights feminist rhetorical practices that disrupt and surpass boundaries of time and spaceIn 1917, Alice Paul and other suffragists famously picketed in front of the White House while holding banners with short, pithy sayings such as “Mr. President: How long must women wait for Liberty?” Their …
Heritage and Hate
Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities
Inbunden, 2021
467 kr
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How southern universities presently contend with an inherited panoply of words and symbols that embody and perpetuate Old South traditions In Heritage and Hate: Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities, Stephen M. Monroe presents the US South as a pulsating rhetorical landscape, a place where …
I the People
The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
Inbunden, 2022
621 kr
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A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism.I The People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States examines a variety of texts—ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets—to outline the populist character of …
Faithful Deliberation
Rhetorical Invention, Evangelicalism, and #MeToo Reckonings
Av T J Geiger
Inbunden, 2022
578 kr
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Investigates the rhetorical practices that contemporary evangelical Christian women use to confront theological and cultural issues that stymie deliberation within their communities regarding how to respond to sexual assault and domestic violence, with an eye toward both compassion for victims and …
Case for Single Motherhood
Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations
Inbunden, 2023
1235 kr
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Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought—and continue to seek—to legitimize their maternal identities and family formationsScholars of rhetoric have largely overlooked the inherent rhetoricity of family. …
Soccer's Neoliberal Pitch
The Sport's Power, Profit, and Discursive Politics
Inbunden, 2023
1370 kr
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A powerful cultural critique of soccer’s public rhetoricAmerican sports agnostics might raise an eyebrow at the idea that soccer represents a staging ground for cultural, social, and political possibility. It is just another game, after all, in a society where mass-audience spectator sports largely …
Tense Times
Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
Inbunden, 2023
1272 kr
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How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describesAmerican public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline—the worst seems always yet to come and already here. Tense Times argues that the ways we discuss these crises, …
Dreamer Nation
Immigration, Activism, and Neoliberalism
Inbunden, 2023
1235 kr
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Illustrates how the Dreamer community was created rhetorically—in the discourse, messages, actions, and visual representations of undocumented youthDreamer Nation tells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant …
Fitter, Happier
The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2024
1386 kr
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Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric is a thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between cancer rhetoric, American ideals, and eugenic influences in the twentieth century. This groundbreaking work delves into the paradoxical interplay between …
Oligarchy in America
Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few
Av Luke Winslow
Inbunden, 2024
1235 kr
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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 Winslow reveals oligarchy’s deep intellectual …
Haunted West
Memory and Commemoration at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Av Greg Dickinson, Eric Aoki m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1272 kr
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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.
Way to Hell
Readomg Machiavelli in Catastrophic Times
Av Nathan Crick
Inbunden, 2024
1420 kr
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Brings Machiavelli’s wisdom to bear on the myriad crisis—political, environmental, cultural, viral—that loomed in both his time and our own.
Pleasure and Pain in US Public Culture
Av Joshua Trey Barnett, Christopher J. Gilbert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1235 kr
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Unraveling the intricate dance of pleasure and pain in contemporary American cultureMainstream news and social media often highlight presentations of pain that invite a voyeuristic, pleasurable experience, whether the result of war, disasters, crime, accidents, or other catastrophes. This …
Countermemory
A Rhetoric of Resistance
Av April L. O'Brien, James Chase Sanchez
Inbunden, 2025
1272 kr
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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, and historiography. The authors apply these …
Public Modalities
Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life
Av Daniel C. Brouwer, Dr. Robert Asen
Häftad, 2010
328 kr
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This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of 'the public' or 'public life', and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map various …
Places of Public Memory
The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials
Av Greg Dickinson, Carole Blair m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
395 kr
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Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, …
Global Memoryscapes
Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age
Häftad, 2011
338 kr
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The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and how it changes when collective memories are no longer grounded within the confines of the traditional nation-state. An …
Rhetoric and the Republic
Politics, Civic Discourse and Education in Early America
Häftad, 2013
319 kr
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Contemporary efforts to revitalise the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, …
Rhetorical Secrets
Mapping Gay Identity and Queer Resistance in Contemporary America
Häftad, 2014
272 kr
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Davin Allen Grindstaff, through a series of close textual analyses examining public discourse, uncovers the rhetorical modes of persuasion surrounding the construction of gay male sexual identity. In Part One, Grindstaff establishes his notion of the ""rhetorical secret"" central to constructions …
Conceiving Normalcy
Rhetoric, Law, and the Double Binds of Infertility
Häftad, 2014
252 kr
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Elizabeth C. Britt uses a Massachusetts statute requiring insurance coverage for infertility as a lens through which the work of rhetoric in complex cultural processes can be better understood. Countering the commonsensical notion that mandatory insurance coverage functions primarily to relieve the …
