Rhetoric and community: studies in unity and fragmentation

In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen leading scholars of rhetoric and discourse join forces to explore an area of growing scholarly interest - how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities. Contributors to the volume consider such contentious issues as how individua...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hogan, James Michael 1953- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia University of South Carolina Press ©1998
Schriftenreihe:Studies in rhetoric, communication
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Zusammenfassung:In Rhetoric and Community, seventeen leading scholars of rhetoric and discourse join forces to explore an area of growing scholarly interest - how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities. Contributors to the volume consider such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into "communities"; what sustains vibrant, constructive communities; how communities become fragmented; and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender, the rhetoric of hatred and violence, or failures of public discussion to resolve common problems.
Beschreibung:Contents: Patterns of metaphor among early feminist orators / Michael Osborn -- The perils of patterning / Martha Watson -- The power of hegemony: capitalism and racism in the "nadir of Negro history" / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell -- "The power of hegemony" and Marxist cultural theory / James Arnt Aune -- Du Bois, double-consciousness, and the modern city / Stephen H. Browne -- "The voice of exile": W. E. B. Du Bois and the quest for culture / James Darsey -- On rhetoric in martial decision making / Ronald H. Carpenter -- Martial decision making: MacArthur, Inchon, and the dimensions of rhetoric / Martin J. Medhurst -- The particular aesthetics of Winston Churchill's "war situation I" / Celeste M. Condit and April M. Greer -- Churchill's "Machiavellian moment": the negotiation of anxiety in the "war situation I" / James Jasinski -- Thinking through film: Hollywood remembers the blacklist / Thomas W. Benson -- The social-political dimensions of film: a response to Benson's analysis of Guilty by suspicion / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Rhetoric and scientific communities / John Lyne -- Feuding communities and the feudalism of science: democratizing the community and/of science / Charles Alan Taylor -- Conclusion: rhetoric and the restoration of community / J. Michael Hogan
Beschreibung:XXXVIII, 315 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:1570031851

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