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Presidents and Protestors
Political Rhetoric in the 1960's
Häftad, 1991
395 kr
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The decade of the 1960s was a time of passionate politics and resounding rhetoric. The ""resounding rhetoric"", from Kennedy's celebrated inaugural address, to the outlandish antics of the Yippies, is the focus of this book. The importance of this volume is its consideration of both people in power …
See It Now Confronts McCarthyism
Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation
Häftad, 2005
387 kr
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Rostock's history offers insight into the relationship between Cold War ideology, television documentary, the tactics of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and their overall impact on political culture. There are illuminating readings of the documentary texts in this case study of the rhetoric of …
Transfiguring Sword
The Just War of the Women's Social and Political Union
Häftad, 2015
331 kr
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The Women's Social and Political Union, the militant branch of the English women's suffrage movement, turned to arson, bombing, and widespread property destruction as a strategy to achieve suffrage for women. Because of its comparative rarity, terrorist violence by reform (as opposed to …
Community Over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Häftad, 2014
542 kr
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This ecology of ethics seeks to balance the needs of the individual and those of the various levels of community.As James A. Mackin, Jr., shows, both modernism and postmodernism have undermined the traditional foundations for ethics. Using an ecological model, however, Community over Chaos develops …
Elite Oral History Discourse
A Study of Cooperation and Coherence
Häftad, 2015
340 kr
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Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their …
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the Ideological History of American Liberalism
Häftad, 2016
281 kr
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Popular Memories
Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship
Inbunden, 2015
626 kr
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In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking …
Vernacular Voices
The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres
Häftad, 2022
359 kr
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A foundational text of twenty-first-century rhetorical studies, Vernacular Voices addresses the role of citizen voices in steering a democracy through an examination of the rhetoric of publics. Gerard A. Hauser maintains that the interaction between everyday and official discourse discloses how …
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age
A Rhetorical Education
Häftad, 2025
302 kr
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2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and CompositionRomantic letters are central to understanding queer history. Debates about letters of "romantic friendship," however, too often reduce them to unstudied …
Computer Mediated Communication
Human Relationships in Computerized World
Av James W. Chesebro, Donald G. Bonsall
Inbunden, 1989
366 kr
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Human beings have developed many different relationships with computers, each suggesting a different kind of political relationship between the human user and the computer. On one end of the continuum, the human user dominates the computer-human communication process. On the other end, the computer …
Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue
Inbunden, 1993
521 kr
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) continues to command a major presence in the history and criticism of Western thought. A great deal of attention, accordingly, is paid to the philosophical and literary qualities of his writings. Such emphases, however, overlook what Browne argues to be Burke's most …
Lift Every Voice
African American Oratory, 1787-1900
Av Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham
Inbunden, 1998
649 kr
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The speeches in this collection are examples of the powerful expressions of both famous and lesser-known African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries on issues including slavery and racial equality, women's rights, education, religion, immigration, socialism and war.
Community Over Chaos
An Ecological Perspective on Communication Ethics
Inbunden, 1997
509 kr
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Using an ecological model, this text develops a common ground for ethical judgments about communication. It recognizes the importance of both chaos and community in our communicative ecosystems.
Addressing Postmodernity
Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric and a Theory of Social Change
Häftad, 2000
376 kr
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This text examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change, and how people transform social relations through the use of symbols. It focuses on the work of Kenneth Burke, to discern the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of people and rhetoric in it.
