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This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the
purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing
rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these
issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal
articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical
criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical
critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion
pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The
purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as
a teaching and learning aid. Accessibility across areas of
expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range
from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of
views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the
views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary
rhetorical critics.
This edited volume fills a void in the literature concerning the
purpose, practice, and pedagogy associated with performing
rhetorical criticism. Literature regarding these
issues-predominantly purpose-exists primarily as scattered journal
articles and as sections within chapters of textbooks on rhetorical
criticism. This book brings together 15 established rhetorical
critics, each of whom offers well thought out and argued opinion
pieces that stress the more personal nature of criticism. The
purpose of this book is to serve as a disciplinary resource, and as
a teaching and learning aid. Accessibility across areas of
expertise and experience is stressed in this book. Critics range
from junior faculty to emeritus, and represent a broad spectrum of
views on criticism. In this sense the book offers a snapshot of the
views of a wide swath of successfully practicing, contemporary
rhetorical critics.
There is a timely and urgent need for a reasoned dialogue
reassessing how Marxism can advance the study of human
communication and transform the social world in which it is
embedded. Indeed, ongoing world-historical events -- including the
vigorously organized market globalization, the corresponding
insurgent global anticorporate movement, and the conflicts
engendered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- have underscored the
importance of a thorough critique of global capitalism and its
telecommunication technologies and practices. This important new
collection, featuring essays by leading scholars and practitioners,
provides a much-needed overview and assessment of Marxism's
significance to contemporary thinking in communication and media
studies. Contributors demonstrate how a Marxist perspective can be
usefully applied to specific case studies in communication,
providing valuable insights and understandings that are not
obtainable using other approaches.
What are the consequences in American society when social and political activism is replaced by pursuit of personal, psychological change? How does such a shift happen? Where is it visible? In wide-ranging case studies, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics points out this change in American culture and attributes it to the "rhetoric of therapy." This rhetoric is defined as a pervasive cultural discourse that applies psychotherapyÆs lexiconùthe constructive language of healing, coping, adaptation, and restoration of a previously existing orderùto social and political conflict. The purpose of this therapeutic discourse is to encourage people to focus on themselves and their private lives rather than to attempt to reform flawed systems of social and political power. Author Dana L. Cloud focuses on the therapeutic discourse that emerged after the Vietnam War and links its rise to specific political and economic interests. The critical case studies describe in detail not only what the therapeutic style looks like, but how and why therapeutic discourses are persuasive. These studies include: the rhetoric of "family values"; media coverage of "support groups" during the Persian Gulf War; Gloria SteinenÆs Revolution from Within; the film Thelma and Louise; and literature of the New Age Movement. Cloud concludes with a chapter urging resistance to the therapeutic persuasion she describes envisioning in its place engaged public politics. At once unique and engaging, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics is a must read for academics and students interested in communication studies, cultural studies, sociology, political science, and media studies.
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