Bøger i Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series serien
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- The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields
308,95 kr. Offers a rhetorical analysis of Civil War battlefields and parks, and the ways various commemorative traditions - and their ideologies of race, reconciliation, emancipation, and masculinity - compete for dominance.
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- 308,95 kr.
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- Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era
308,95 kr. Positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable.
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- 308,95 kr.
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- Cases, Theories, and Methodologies
488,95 kr. Presents a collection of essays that reassess history as rhetoric and rhetorical history as practice.
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- 488,95 kr.
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- 623,95 kr.
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- Imagining and Building the Good Life
368,95 kr. Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the 'good life' their residents pursue.
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- 368,95 kr.
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- The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States
673,95 kr. Examines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.
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- 673,95 kr.
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623,95 kr. Defines and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal, and which has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time.
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- 623,95 kr.
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- Environmental Justice Rhetorics
613,95 kr. Explores the ways climate change and extreme weather are negotiated politically in a border community. Kenneth Walker takes a place-based approach to his study of San Antonio to explore how extreme weather events and responses to them shape local places, publics, and politics.
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- 613,95 kr.
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- African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
308,95 kr. Identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Patricia Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples.
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- 308,95 kr.
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- 493,95 kr.
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- The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary
373,95 kr. Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place
728,95 kr. Contributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice.
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- 728,95 kr.
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- Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
443,95 kr. Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.
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- 443,95 kr.
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- Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics
583,95 kr. Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.
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- 583,95 kr.
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- Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
523,95 kr. Explores world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits?
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- 523,95 kr.
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373,95 kr. Argues that the field of rhetoric's recent attention to material objects should go further than simply open a new line of inquiry. To maximize the interdisciplinary turn to things, rhetoricians must seize the opportunity to reimagine and perhaps resolve rhetoric's historically problematic relationship to physical reality and ontology.
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- 373,95 kr.
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- Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement
308,95 kr. Highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. James Wynn analyses the discourse that enables these scientific ventures, as well as the difficulties that arise in communication between scientists and lay people and the potential for misuse of publicly gathered data.
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- 308,95 kr.
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- Visual Rhetoric and the Protocol of Display
558,95 kr. Explores the increasing reliance on images as a mode of communication in contemporary life. Wide-ranging and stimulating, The Politics of the Superficial posits that contemporary visual culture offers the possibility for politically engaged communication and persuasion while simultaneously threatening the health of public discourse by atomizing its constituent parts.
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- 558,95 kr.