This text provides a perspective for understanding presidential debates by analyzing the debates in 1992 among candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. It argues that candidates are able either to undermine or to preserve the vital issues of personal credibility and policy matters.
This text provides a perspective for understanding presidential debates by analyzing the debates in 1992 among candidates Bill Clinton, George Bush an...
This comprehensive anthology will be the standard source for the study of African American public address for years to come.
For Americans of the 19th century, as W. E. B. Du Bois observed, eloquent speeches were 'the shining lights of civilization' that both expressed and sought to improve the lives and communities from which they sprang. Through political speeches, sermons, lectures, oral testimonies, and ceremonial addresses, African Americans offered diverse responses to the issues and events of their times, including not only slavery and racial...
This comprehensive anthology will be the standard source for the study of African American public address for years to come.
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
In "Addressing Postmodernity," Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and rhetoric in it, Biesecker turns to the seminal work of Kenneth Burke. Through a close reading of Burke's major works, "A Grammar of Motives," "A Rhetoric of Motives," and "The...
Biesecker reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social change.
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 television documentary.
Rostock's history offers insight into the relationship between Cold War ideology, television documentary, the tactics of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a...
The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King s body of work: Death of Evil on the Seashore, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream, A Time to Break Silence, and I ve Been to the Mountaintop. Taken collectively, these five works span both the duration of King s career as a public advocate but also represent the broad scope of his efforts to craft and project a persuasive vision a beloved community that persists through time. "
The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five div...
Focuses criticism upon the writings of Kenneth Burke.
"This is a powerful book. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to James Chesebro. He and a few others have seen to it that Kenneth Burke's unique thought got a full and fair hearing from a new generation of scholars. This is because Chesebro has done what many others have failed to do. He has treated Burke's work not as a closed system but as a kind of resource that must be shaped anew for every challenge or question.
"This volume is the result of an open call for papers. Forty-three were submitted and considered by a...
Focuses criticism upon the writings of Kenneth Burke.
"This is a powerful book. . . . We owe a debt of gratitude to James Chesebro. He and ...
Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought reflects the present transitory nature of rhetoric and society. Its purpose is to relate the rhetorical theory and critical approaches of American critic Kenneth Burke to four major European philosophers - Jurgen Habermas, Ernesto Grassi, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida - as they discuss the nature of language and its central role in society. Supporting transitory forces in society, all these thinkers reject traditional, scientific, objective, reductionist thought and point to language or symbols as the basis for understanding experience...
Kenneth Burke and Contemporary European Thought reflects the present transitory nature of rhetoric and society. Its purpose is to relate the rhetorica...
The themes of the essays in "Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent" all coalesce around the general question: "When, if ever, is assent justified?" The question immediate triggers complex and multifaceted considerations of argument and, ultimately, power. In parsing out the nature of assent, the essays take divers approaches: aesthetic and symbolist, rationalistic and formalistic, field theory, various conceptualizations of a public sphere, etc. Together, they offer an insightful exploration of an exciting new terrain argumentation studies.
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The themes of the essays in "Argumentation Theory and the Rhetoric of Assent" all coalesce around the general question: "When, if ever, is assent just...
