Making the case [[electronic resource] ] : advocacy and judgment in public argument / / edited by Kathryn M. Olson ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.97301/4
• Soggetto topico: Political oratory - United States; Communication in politics - United States; Persuasion (Rhetoric) - Political aspects; Rhetoric - Political aspects; Rhetorical criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: OlsonKathryn M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- The beginnings of oratorical consciousness: restarting time in Homer's Odyssey, the telemachy / G. Thomas Goodnight -- Lysander Spooner's the unconstitutionality of slavery: a case study in constitutional hermeneutics, ethical argument, and practical reason / James Jasinski -- Kind persuasion: Lincoln's temperance address and the ethos of civic friendship / Michael Leff -- Andrew Johnson's fight for states' rights on the battlements of the constitution / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- No end save victory: FDR and the end of isolationism, 1936-1941 / John M. Murphy -- Iraq as a representative anecdote for leadership: Barack Obama's address on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War / Denise M. Bostdorff -- Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address: narrative signature and interpretation / Martin J. Medhurst -- To exist, you need an ideology: Alan Greenspan on markets, crisis, and democracy / Robert Asen.
• Sommario/riassunto: In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who's who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of
• Titolo autorizzato: Making the case
• ISBN: 1-60917-344-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462332003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Rhetoric & Public Affairs