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Editorial Bodies - Perfection And Rejection In Ancient Rhetoric And Poetics

de Michele Kennerly

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 Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts to perfect, publish, and preserve both new and old writing. In Editorial Bodies, Michele Kennerly argues that such efforts were commonly articulated through the extended metaphor of the body.
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Diagnosing Madness - The Discursive Construction Of The Psychiatric Patient, 1850â€“1920

de Carol Berkenkotter e Cristina Hanganu-Bresch

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 A study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book shows how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system.
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The Interruption That We Are - The Health Of The Lived Body, Narrative, And Public Moral Argument

de Michael J. Hyde

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 In this provocative work, Michael Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of rhetoric plays a fundamental role in promoting and maintaining the health of our personal and communal existence. He examines how the force of interruption is a catalyst for moral reflection and moral behaviour.
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Rhetoric And Power - The Drama Of Classical Greece

de Nathan Crick

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 Explores the history of rhetoric by explaining its origin and development in classical Greece, beginning with the oral displays of Homeric eloquence in a time of kings, following its ascent to power during the age of Pericles and the Sophists, and ending with its transformation into a rational discipline with Aristotle in a time of literacy and empire.
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Pragmatism, Democracy, And The Necessity Of Rhetoric

de Robert Danisch

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 Examines the search by America's first generation of pragmatists for a unique set of rhetorics that would serve the needs of a developing democracy. Analyzing pragmatism's historical development, this book provides information on its association with an alternative but significant and often overlooked tradition.
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Rhetoric And Community - Studies In Unity And Fragmentation

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 A collection of rhetorical case studies that fathom the construction and destruction of communities. It considers such contentious issues as how individuals are forged into communities, what sustains constructive communities, how communities become fragmented, and what leads to divisions of race, class, and gender.
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Burke, War, Words - Rhetoricizing Dramatism

de M.Elizabeth Weiser

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 Reinserts Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism into the social milieu from which it originated, fostering an understanding of how this concept of motivation was itself motivated by war and criticism. This title draws from published and unpublished communications between Burke and the diverse and divergent literati of his era.
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The Humane Particulars - The Collected Letters Of William Carlos Williams And Kenneth Burke

de Kenneth Burke

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 These collected letters of two key figures from the Modernist period span a period of 42 years. The animated exchange between a canonical poet and the leading American rhetorical critic of the 20th century offers a complete vision of their outlooks and contributions to the Modernist scene.
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Lives Of Their Own - Rhetorical Dimensions In The Autobiographies Of Women Activists

de Martha Watson

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 Explores how five turn-of-the-century women - Frances Willard, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Emma Goldman and Mary Church Terrell - crafted autobiographies that became persuasive models for the women of their generation, and lead to movements for social change.
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Carnival Of Blood - Dueling, Lynching, And Murder In South Carolina, 1880-1920

de John Hammond Moore

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 Presents the history of changes in homicidal tendencies in South Carolina over four formative decades on the cusp of our modern era. Revisiting one of the nation's last formal duels, this book recounts details of the Cash-Shannon meeting of July 1880 and the ensuing circle of carnage that left nine dead.
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Rhetoric In Martial Deliberations And Decision Making - Cases And Consequences

de Ronald H. Carpenter

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 In this study of the discourse involved in martial deliberations, Ronald H. Carpenter examines the rhetoric employed by naval and military commanders as they recommend specific tactics and strategies. Drawing on ideas of rhetorical thinking from Aristotle to Burke, he identifies concepts in military decision-making.
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Strategies Of Remembrance - The Rhetorical Dimensions Of National Identity Construction

de M.Lane Bruner

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 At a time when national identity is a potent political force, this work sheds light on the relationships between economic, civic, cultural, and ethnic forms of nationalism, and on the interactions of nationalism in those forms with the politics of memory and the rhetoric of democracy.
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Making Government Work

de Ernest F. Hollings

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 Serves as equal parts political memoir and reform-minded call to action as the author shares accounts from his half century of public service to illustrate the smart stewardship of resources and authority needed to enact policies that can make positive differences in the lives of Americans.
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The City Of The Jugglers; Or, Free-Trade In Souls - A Romance Of The Golden Age

de William North; Ilustração: Frank Bellew

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 A social novel - by a radical exile - of London in 1848, the year of European revolutions.
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Tales Of The South

de William Gilmore Simms

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 The 14 short stories in this volume demonstrate Simms' combining of homey realism with fabulous flights of fancy. Each offers an intimate view of 19th-century work and domesticity, and forays into legend and superstition. The introduction places the work in a biographical and historical context.
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Identity'S Strategy - Rhetorical Selves In Conversion

de Dana Anderson

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 Drawing on Kenneth Burke's "Dialectic of Constitutions," this work analyzes conversion narratives to illustrate how the authors of these autobiographical texts describe dramatic changes in their identities as a means of influencing the beliefs and action of their readers.
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Brick Walls And Other Barriers - Race In A Southern School District

de Thomas E. Truitt

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 Recounting how legacies of discrimination and injustice combined to divide a community along racial lines, this title throws light on the intractability of racial problems in South Carolina. It takes readers into the complex inner workings of a modern school system, detailing the relationships between school boards and professional administrators.
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South Carolina And The New Deal

de Jack Irby Hayes

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 The author revisits the South Carolina of the 1930s to determine the impact of federal programmes on the state's economy, politics, culture and citizenry. The work traces the waxing and waning of support for programmes such as Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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Charleston Gardens And The Landscape Legacy Of Loutrel Briggs

de James R. Cathran

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Managing Vulnerability - South Africa'S Struggle For A Democratic Rhetoric

de Richard C. Marback

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Ars Poetriae - Rhetorical And Grammatical Invention At The Margin Of Literacy

de William Michael Purcell

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The Presidency And The Rhetoric Of Foreign Crisis

de Denise M. Bostdorff

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Textual Curation - Authorship, Agency, And Technology In Wikipedia And The Chambers' Cyclopedia

de Krista Kennedy

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Best Resumes And Letters For Ex-Offenders - The Ultimate Rap Sheet-To-Resume Guide For People With Not-So-Hot Backgrounds

de Tbd

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 Shows ex-offenders how to craft outstanding resumes and letters despite red flags in their backgrounds. Includes more than 60 examples written by professional resume writers for ex-offenders. Addresses employment questions, disclosure, mistakes to avoid, employment gaps, priso...
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