Doing Rhetorical History by Kathleen Turner

Doing Rhetorical History by Kathleen Turner

This collection argues that rhetorical history, both as a methodology and as a perspective, offers insights that are central to the study of communication and unavailable through other approaches.

Doing Rhetorical History addresses once again relationships between criticism and historyThe chapters on Dorothy Day and Mike Mansfield are particularly interesting examples of what rhetorical history adds to critical understanding of discourse, but the entire book is a provocative revisiting of issues with a long history in communication studies.--Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, University of Minnesota
If we are ever to get beyond the unproductive debate that has pitted rhetorical theory and philosophical abstraction against rhetorical practice and material cases, then we must start by understanding our own history, our own rhetoric, and our own misunderstandings. Doing Rhetorical History is an antidote to what has ailed us for too long. Drink deeply, and let the healing begin.--Martin J. Medhurst, Texas A&M University

Kathleen Turner is Associate Professor of Communication at Tulane University.

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ISBN 13	9780817350482
ISBN 10	0817350489
Title	Doing Rhetorical History
Author	Kathleen Turner
Series	Studies In Rhetoric And Communication Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Alabama Press
Year published	2003-08-30
Number of pages	304
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