The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, J. Michael Hogan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

2010
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-7813-6 (ISBN)

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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

About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is 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) and The Prime-Time Presidency: The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of Public Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association.

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xiv

Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address 1
Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan

Part I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address 17

1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study 19
Martin J. Medhurst

2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges 67
David Zarefsky

3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method 86
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Part II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address 109

4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future 111
Davis W. Houck

5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication 133
Robert N. Gaines

6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records 157
Shawn J. Parry-Giles

7 From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century 184
Susan Zaeske and Sarah Jedd

Part III Text and Context in Rhetoric and Public Address 203

8 The Racial Contexts of Public Address: Interpreting Violence During the Reconstruction Era 205
Kirt H. Wilson

9 Lilies and Lavatory Paper: The Public and the Private in British Suffrage Archives 229
Cheryl R. Jorgensen-Earp

10 Studying Visual Modes of Public Address: Lewis Hine’s Progressive-Era Child Labor Rhetoric 250
Cara A. Finnegan

11 Theory and Public Address: The Allusive Mr. Bush 271
John M. Murphy

Part IV Questions of Effect in Rhetoric and Public Address 291

12 Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and Instrumental Effects of Presidential Rhetoric 293
Mary E. Stuckey

13 Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the “Principles of ’98” 313
James Jasinski and Jennifer R. Mercieca

Part V The Politics of Rhetoric and Public Address 343

14 Feminism and Public Address Research: Television News and the Constitution of Women’s Liberation 345
Bonnie J. Dow

15 The Problem of Race in Public Address Research: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Conflicted Aesthetics of Race 373
Eric King Watts

16 Sexuality and Public Address: Rhetorical Pasts, Queer Theory, and Abraham Lincoln 398
Charles E. Morris III

17 Public Address and the Revival of American Civic Culture 422
J. Michael Hogan

Select Bibliography 448

Index 469

Reihe/Serie	Handbooks in Communication and Media
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 249 mm
Gewicht	1021 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4051-7813-2 / 1405178132
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-7813-6 / 9781405178136
Zustand	Neuware