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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140610203321

Titolo

The handbook of rhetoric and public address [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-54931-6

1-78034-192-X

9786612549311

1-4443-2410-1

1-4051-9787-0

1-4443-2411-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Handbooks in communication and media

Altri autori (Persone)

Parry-GilesShawn J. <1960->

HoganJ. Michael <1953->

Disciplina

809.51

Soggetti

Rhetorical criticism

Speeches, addresses, etc - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Speeches, addresses, etc., American - History and criticism

English language - Rhetoric - Research - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address; Part I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address; 1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study; 2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges; 3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method; Part II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address; 4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future; 5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication

6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records7 From Recovering Women's Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century; Part III Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address; 8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting



Violence During the Reconstruction Era; 9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives; 10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric

11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. BushPart IV Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address; 12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric; 13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98"; Part V The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address; 14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women's Liberation; 15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Confl icted Aesthetics of Race

16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 perspectiveMindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideasProvides 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 practiceInclude