Screen LibraryThe handbook of rhetoric and public address
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 perspecti...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Handbooks in communication and media
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444324105 |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781444324105 1444324101 9781444324112 (electronic bk.) 144432411X (electronic bk.) 9781405197878 1405197870 |
| Index Number: | PN4096 |
| CLC: | H05 |
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Introduction / Public address scholarship in the new century: achievements and challenges / Rhetorical criticism 2009: a study in method / Basic research in rhetoric and public address. Textual recovery, textual discovery: returning to our past, imagining our future / The processes and challenges of textual authentication / Archival research and the American presidency: the political and rhetorical complexities of presidential records / From recovering women's words to documenting gender constructs: archival research in the twenty-first century / Text and context in rhetoric and public address. The racial contexts of public address: interpreting violence during the Reconstruction Era / Lilies and lavatory paper: the public and the private in British suffrage archives / Studying visual modes of public address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-era child labor rhetoric / Theory and public address: the allusive Mr. Bush / Questions of effect in rhetoric and public address. Jimmy Carter, human rights, and instrumental effects of presidential rhetoric / Analyzing constitutive rhetorics: the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / The politics of rhetoric and public address. Feminism and public address research: television news and the constitution of women's liberation / The problem of race in public address research: W.E.B. Du Bois and the conflicted aesthetics of race / Sexuality and public address: rhetorical pasts, queer theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Public address and the revival of American civic culture / |