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Contemporary Rhetorical Theory A Reader

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ISBN-10: 1572304014

ISBN-13: 9781572304017

Edition: 1999

Authors: John Louis Lucaites, Celeste Michelle Condit, Sally Caudill

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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Publication date: 11/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 627
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.442

Robert Harimanis professor of communication at Northwestern University and the author ofPolitical Style: The Artistry of Power.John Louis Lucaitesis professor of communication and culture at Indiana University. He is coauthor ofCrafting Equality: America’s Anglo-African Word. 

Introduction
What Can a "Rhetoric" Be?
Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric
Status, Marginality, and Rhetorical Theory
The Habitation of Rhetoric
Text, Context, and the Fragmentation of Contemporary Culture
Practicing the Arts of Rhetoric: Tradition and Invention
The Taming of Polos/Polis: Rhetoric as an Achievement Without Woman
Rhetoric and Epistemology
On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic
Knowledge, Consensus, and Rhetorical Theory
Some Implications of "Process" or "Intersubjectivity": Postmodern Rhetoric
Rhetorical Perspectivism
Rhetoric and Its Double: Reflections of the Rhetorical Turn in the Human Sciences
The Character of the Rhetorical Situation
The Rhetorical Situation
The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation
Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from within the Thematic of Differance
Rhetoric, Reason, and Public Morality
The Personal, Technical, and Public Sphere of Argumentation
Narrative as a Human Communication Paradigm
Rhetorical Conversation, Time, and Moral Action
Crafting Virtue: The Rhetorical Construction of Public Morality
The Nature of the Audience
The Role of Discourse in Social Change
Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements
The Rhetoric of Women's Liberation: An Oxymoron
The Functions of Presidential Campaigning
The "Ideograph": A Link Between Rhetoric and Ideology
Critical Rhetoric: Theory and Praxis
Rehabilitating Rhetoric: Confronting Blindspots in Discourse and Social Theory
Rhetoric in the Mass Media
Burke's Representative Anecdote as a Method in Media Criticism
The Rhetorical Limits of Polysemy
Reintegrating Ideology and Archetype in Rhetorical Criticism
Challenging the Tradition of Rhetorical Theory from the Margins
Cultures of Discourse: Marxism and Rhetorical Theory
An Afrocentric Theory of Communication
Disciplining the Feminine
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View