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Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterizatio…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017312/Prisoners-of-Conscience
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmu…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017324/Democracy-and-Rhetoric
An innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an "ontology of becoming"

In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philo…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017330/Managing-Vulnerability
In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart o…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017367/Breast-or-Bottle
Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical cont…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017370/Burke-in-the-Archives
Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen original essays by leading and emerging Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely re…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017450/You-Cant-Padlock-an-Idea
You Can't Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promot…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017456/Rhetoric-and-Power
An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empire

In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017454/Rhetorical-Touch
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017284/The-Genuine-Teachers-of-This-Art
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or "handbook," tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential m…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700