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Title The handbook of rhetoric and public address / edited by Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan
Published Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbooks in communication and media
Handbooks in communication and media.
Contents Introduction / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan -- pt. 1: The history and prospects of rhetoric and public address. The history of public address as an academic study / Martin J. Medhurst -- Public address scholarship in the new century: achievements and challenges / David Zarefsky -- Rhetorical criticism 2009: a study in method / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- pt. 2: Basic research in rhetoric and public address. Textual recovery, textual discovery: returning to our past, imagining our future / Davis W. Houck -- The processes and challenges of textual authentication / Robert N. Gaines -- Archival research and the American presidency: the political and rhetorical complexities of presidential records / Shawn J. Parry-Giles -- From recovering women's words to documenting gender constructs: archival research in the twenty-first century / Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd -- pt. 3: Text and context in rhetoric and public address. The racial contexts of public address: interpreting violence during the Reconstruction Era / Kirt H. Wilson -- Lilies and lavatory paper: the public and the private in British suffrage archives / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp -- Studying visual modes of public address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-era child labor rhetoric / Cara A. Finnegan -- Theory and public address: the allusive Mr. Bush / John M. Murphy -- pt. 4: Questions of effect in rhetoric and public address. Jimmy Carter, human rights, and instrumental effects of presidential rhetoric / Mary E. Stuckey -- Analyzing constitutive rhetorics: the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca -- pt. 5: The politics of rhetoric and public address. Feminism and public address research: television news and the constitution of women's liberation / Bonnie J. Dow -- The problem of race in public address research: W.E.B. Du Bois and the conflicted aesthetics of race / Eric King Watts -- Sexuality and public address: rhetorical pasts, queer theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Charles E. Morris III -- Public address and the revival of American civic culture / J. Michael Hogan
Summary The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century.: Focuses on public address as both a subject matter and a critical perspective; Mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas; Provides an historical overview of public address research and pedagogy, as well as a reassessment of contemporary public address scholarship by those most engaged in its practice; Includes in-depth discussi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Research -- Methodology.
Rhetorical criticism.
Speeches, addresses, etc. -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Hogan, J. Michael, 1953-
Parry-Giles, Shawn J., 1960-
Wiley InterScience (Online service)
ISBN 1405197870
1444324101
144432411X (electronic bk.)
9781405197878
9781444324105
9781444324112 (electronic bk.)
(hbk.)