Title: Sizing up rhetoric /
Authors: Zarefsky, David.; Benacka, Elizabeth.; Kraus, Manfred.; Rhetoric Society of America. 2006 :
Publisher: Waveland Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Rhetoric Congresses
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.