Sizing Up Rhetoric

by Zarefsky, David; Benacka, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9781577665328
• ISBN10: 1577665325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-30
• Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc

Table of Contents

Plenary Perspectives	p. 5
One Size Doesn't Fit All: The Contingent Universality of Rhetoric	p. 7
Rhetoric and Race in the American Experience: The Promises and Perils of Sentimental Memory	p. 20
Religion and Rhetoric: Reason, Emotion, and the Sensory in Religious Persuasion	p. 40
Aphthonius and the Progymnasmata in Rhetorical Theory and Practice	p. 52
Rhetorical Theory	p. 69
Apuleius and the Forensic Genre in Antiquity	p. 71
The Eulogy: Grief and the Wisdom of the Ancients	p. 90
"The Siren of Isocrates ... Sappho's Lyre, or Some Other Power Greater Still": The Rhetoricity of Anna Komnena's Alexiad	p. 101
Kenneth Burke and the Progressive Press	p. 110
Intellectual and Conceptual Resources for Visual Rhetoric: A Reexamination of Scholarship Since 1950	p. 118
Legal and Political Rhetorics	p. 139
Sizing Up Legal "Rhetoric": Law from the Outside In	p. 141
Getting the Government Out of Farming: Sizing Up Eisenhower's Early Agricultural Policy Rhetoric	p. 153
Appealing the Divide: Logos, Ethos, and Contemporary American Presidential Campaign Rhetoric	p. 173
Complexity and Ideology in Televisual War Rhetoric: The Ad War Over Iraq in Campaign 2004	p. 181
Receiving Rhetoric: Mayor Ray Nagin's Persuasion Regarding the Evacuation of New Orleans	p. 200
Into Dark Places: Violence, History, and the American Militia Movement	p. 212
Rhetorics of Science	p. 225
Bio(in)security: Rhetoric, Science, and Citizens in the Age of Bioterrorism - The Case of TOPOFF 3	p. 227
The Biggest Rhetoric of All: Restoring the Tropological Heritage of Lacanian Psychoanalysis	p. 250
Physicians Who Are Qualified; Women Who Are Not	p. 265
Limited Prevention, Limiting Topos: Reframing Arguments about Science and Politics in the HIV Prevention Policy Debate	p. 273
Rhetorics of Religion	p. 285
In the Blood of the Word: Embodied Rhetorical Authority in St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue	p. 287
Painted Sermons: Expanding the Scope of Explanatory Rhetoric	p. 296
Nineteenth-Century Discourse	p. 311
The Prophet of Abolition: Ambiguous Prophecy and Rhetorical Echoes in the Rhetoric of David Walker's Appeal	p. 313
What about Sex?: Reconsidering Histories of Nineteenth-Century Women's Public Reform Discourse	p. 325
Fortified Young Men: Comstock and the Force of Law	p. 334
Contemporary Rhetorical Cultures	p. 353
Topoi of Identity: Rhetorical Practices in the Political Reconstruction of Poland	p. 355
"Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word to Say": Official Apologia and Rhetorical Agency in Contemporary Danish Politics	p. 366
Rhetoric and Resistance in Lu Yin's Feminist Essays	p. 379
Rhetorical Pedagogy	p. 391
Transgressive Eloquence: bell hooks, Cicero, and the Aims of Rhetorical Pedagogy	p. 393
Arguing War and Facing the Other: Critical Pedagogy in the Post-9/11 Classroom	p. 398
Afterword: Remembering Wayne Booth	p. 415
Rhetoric, Criticism, and My Many Selves	p. 417
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