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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 discussi.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan
• pt. 1: The history and prospects of rhetoric and public address. The history of public address as an academic study / Martin J. Medhurst
• Public address scholarship in the new century: achievements and challenges / David Zarefsky
• Rhetorical criticism 2009: a study in method / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
• pt. 2: Basic research in rhetoric and public address. Textual recovery, textual discovery: returning to our past, imagining our future / Davis W. Houck
• The processes and challenges of textual authentication / Robert N. Gaines
• Archival research and the American presidency: the political and rhetorical complexities of presidential records / Shawn J. Parry-Giles
• From recovering women's words to documenting gender constructs: archival research in the twenty-first century / Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd
• pt. 3: Text and context in rhetoric and public address. The racial contexts of public address: interpreting violence during the Reconstruction Era / Kirt H. Wilson
• Lilies and lavatory paper: the public and the private in British suffrage archives / Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp
• Studying visual modes of public address: Lewis Hine's Progressive-era child labor rhetoric / Cara A. Finnegan
• Theory and public address: the allusive Mr. Bush / John M. Murphy
• pt. 4: Questions of effect in rhetoric and public address. Jimmy Carter, human rights, and instrumental effects of presidential rhetoric / Mary E. Stuckey
• Analyzing constitutive rhetorics: the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the "Principles of '98" / James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca
• pt. 5: The politics of rhetoric and public address. Feminism and public address research: television news and the constitution of women's liberation / Bonnie J. Dow
• The problem of race in public address research: W.E.B. Du Bois and the conflicted aesthetics of race / Eric King Watts
• Sexuality and public address: rhetorical pasts, queer theory, and Abraham Lincoln / Charles E. Morris III
• Public address and the revival of American civic culture / J. Michael Hogan.

Contributors:

Parry-Giles, Shawn J., 1960-

Hogan, J. Michael, 1953-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Handbook of rhetoric and public address (Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 — ISBN 9781405178136; ISBN 1405178132; LCCN 2010001890; OCLC Number 502452387)

Related Series:

Handbooks in communication and media

Subjects:

Rhetorical criticism

Speeches, addresses, etc. — History and criticism — Theory, etc.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American — History and criticism

English language — Rhetoric — Research — Methodology

Speeches, addresses, etc.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American

English language

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 478 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN4096 .H36 2010eb

ISBNs:

9781444324105
1444324101
9781444324112 (electronic bk.)
144432411X (electronic bk.)
9781405197878
1405197870
9781405178136 (hbk.) [Invalid]
1405178132 [Invalid]
9781405178136 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1002/9781444324105

OCLC Numbers:

632158153