The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address

by Parry-Giles, Shawn J.; Hogan, J. Michael

• ISBN13: 9781405178136
• ISBN10: 1405178132
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 perspective Mindful of the connections between the study of public address and the history of ideas Provides 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 practice Includes in-depth discussions of basic issues and controversies public address scholarship Explores the relationship between the study of public address and contemporary issues of civic engagement and democratic citizenship Reflects the diversity of views among public address scholars, advancing on-going discussions and debates over the goals and character of rhetorical scholarship

Author Biography

Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Maryland.  She is also the Director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, and the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001), and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002).

J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Communication at Penn State University. He is the author of many books, including The Panama Canal in American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006), along with two edited books, Rhetoric and Community (1998), and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address

The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address

The History of Public Address as an Academic Study

Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges

Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method

Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address

Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to our Past, Imagining our Future

The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication

Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records

From Recovering Women's Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century

Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address

The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era

Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives

Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine's Progressive Era Child Labor Rhetoric

Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush

Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric

Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98"

The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address

Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women's Liberation

The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race

Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln

Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture

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Index

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