Research Catalog

Title

Sizing up rhetoric / [compiled by] David Zarefsky, Elizabeth Benacka.

Author

Rhetoric Society of America. Conference (12th : 2006 : Memphis, Tenn.)

Publication

Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2008

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Additional Authors

• Zarefsky, David
• Benacka, Elizabeth.
• Kraus, Manfred.

Description

vi, 442 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

Rhetoric > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Papers presented at the twelfth biennial conference of the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA), held in Memphis from May 26-29, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• One size doesn't fit all : the contingent universality of rhetoric / Steven Mailloux -- Rhetoric and race in the American experience : the promises and perils of sentimental memory / Kirt H. Wilson -- Religion and rhetoric : reason, emotion, and the sensory in religious persuasion / Patricia Bizzell -- Aphthonius and the progymnasmata in rhetorical theory and practice / Manfred Kraus -- Apuleius and forensic genre in antiquity / Craig R. Smith -- The eulogy : grief and wisdom of the ancients / Beth L. Hewett -- "The siren of Isocrates ... Sappho's lyre, or some other power greater still" : the rhetoricity of Anna Komnena's Alexiad / Susan C. Jarratt and Ellen Quandahl -- Kenneth Burke and the progressive press / Ann Dobyns -- Intellectual and conceptual resources for visual rhetoric : a reexamination of scholarship since 1950 / Lester C. Olson -- Sizing up legal "rhetoric" : law from the outside in / Frances J. Ranney -- Getting the government out of farming : sizing up Eisenhower's early agricultural policy rhetoric / Lora Cohn -- Appealing the divide : logos, ethos, and contemporary American presidential campaign rhetoric : the ad war over Iraq in campaign 2004 / Stephen A. Klien -- Receiving rhetoric : Mayor Ray Nagin's persuasion regarding the evacuation of New Orleans / Karen Taylor -- Into dark places : violence, history, and the American militia movement / D.J. Mulloy.
• Bio(in)security : rhetoric, science, and citizens in the age of bioterrorism-the case of TOPOFF 3 / Lisa Keränen -- The biggest rhetoric of all : restoring the tropological heritage of Lacanian psychoanalysis / Christian Lundberg -- Physicians who are qualified; women who are not / Barbara Schneider -- Limited prevention, limiting topos : reframing arguments about science and politics in the HIV prevention policy debate / J. Blake Scott -- In the blood of the word : embodied rhetorical authority in St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue / Kristie S. Fleckenstein -- Painted sermons : expanding the scope of explanatory rhetoric / Karen Rowe -- The prophet of abolition : ambiguous prophecy and rhetorical echoes in the rhetoric of David Walker's Appeal / David C. Bailey -- What about sex? : reconsidering histories of nineteeth-century women's public reform discourse / Inez Schaechterle and Sue Carter Wood -- Fortified young men : Comstock and the force of law / Leslie Hahner -- Topoi of identity : rhetorical practices in the political reconstruction of Poland / Cezar M. Ornatowski -- "Sorry seems to be the hardest word to say" : official apologia and rhetorical agency in contemporary Danish politics / Lisa Storm Villadsen -- Rhetoric and resistance in Lu Yin's feminist essays / Bo Wang -- Transgressive eloquence : bell hooks, Cicero, and the aims of rhetorical pedagogy / Antonio Raul de Velasco -- Arguing war and facing the other : critical pedagogy in the post-9/11 classroom / Kevin Kuswa and Briann Walsh -- Rhetoric, criticism, and My many selves / Gregory Clark.

ISBN

• 9781577665328
• 1577665325

LCCN

^^2008299933

OCLC

• 173241139
• SCSB-12622145

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library