uscpress.com - Studies in Rhetoric & Communication https://uscpress.com/ Trained Capacities https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891137/Trained-Capacities
A collection examining Dewey's influence on effective communication in a healthy democratic practice

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communica…]]>
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Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891304/Rhetoric-of-the-Chinese-Cultural-Revolution
A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effects

Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of…]]>
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Assembling Arguments https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891272/Assembling-Arguments
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources…]]>
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Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891246/Double-Consciousness-and-the-Rhetoric-of-Barack-Obama
Robert E. Terrill argues that, to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained c…]]>
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The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891223/The-Effects-of-Rhetoric-and-the-Rhetoric-of-Effects
An examination of the foundation of rhetorical criticism as reconceptualized for the twenty-first century

The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects tackles one of the thornies…]]>
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Popular Memories https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891213/Popular-Memories
A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States

In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched num…]]>
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Rhetoric and Power https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891190/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…]]>
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Rhetorical Touch https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891188/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…]]>
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You Can't Padlock an Idea https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891184/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…]]>
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Prisoners of Conscience https://uscpress.com/book-post/2891047/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…]]>
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