Reception Histories Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics

Name: Reception Histories Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics
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ISBN: 9780801485060

ISBN-10: 0801485061

ISBN-13: 9780801485060

Edition: 1998

Authors: Steven Mailloux

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In his earlier Rhetorical Power, Steven Mailloux presented an innovative and challenging strategy for combining critical theory and cultural studies. That book has stimulated wide-ranging discussion and debate among diverse audiences—students and specialists in American studies, speech communications, rhetoric/composition, law, education, biblical studies, and especially literary theory and cultural criticism. Reception Histories marks a further development of Mailloux's influential critical project, as he demonstrates how rhetorical hermeneutics uses rhetoric to practice theory by doing history. Reception Histories works out in detail what rhetorical hermeneutics means in terms of…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 7/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 222
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Preface



Rhetorical Pragmatism



Articulation and Understanding



The Sophistry of Rhetorical Pragmatism



Interpretation and Rhetorical Hermeneutics



Cultural Rhetoric Study



Ideological Rhetoric and Bible Politics: Fuller Reading Douglass



Good and Bad Persuasions: Critics Reading Bunyan



The Use and Abuse of Fiction: Readers Eating Books



Rhetorical Studies and the Culture Wars



Rhetoric Returns to Syracuse: The Reception of Curricular Reform



Rhetorical Studies: Future Prospects



Major in English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University


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