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Titolo: | Making the case : advocacy and judgment in public argument / / edited by Kathryn M. Olson ... [et al.] |
Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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 | |
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.: | 9910818563303321 |
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