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The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume
with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric
offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in
children's literature from picture books to young adult novels.
Collectively, this volume's contributions interrogate how
children's literature is a powerful yet under examined space of
rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most vulnerable
segments of our population. This book is singularly unique given
that it will be the first collection of essays on children's
literature from the distinct perspective of the field of
Communication. Beyond topical novelty, the contributors utilize a
range of scholarly methods to analyze instances of the rhetoric of
children's literature. Consequently, essays in this volume may be
read for both their specific topical content and as exemplars for
multiple methodological approaches to the study of the rhetoric of
children's literature. Collectively, the contributors set out to
contribute to our knowledge of how instances of children's
literature operate as rhetorical discourses. The volume is
organized by case studies approached through critical, rhetorical
lenses that analyze specific instances of children's literature
from two distinct stages of children's developmental reading
experiences including pre/early literacy and fluent reading.
Structurally, the book includes eight content chapters divided
evenly with four chapters analyzing books for young children and
four chapters analyzing books targeting audiences from
late-childhood to adolescence. An overview of each content chapter
accompanies this proposal.
The Rhetorical Power of Children's Literature is an edited volume
with contributions from established and new scholars of rhetoric
offering case studies that analyze a full array of genres in
children's literature from picture books to young adult novels.
Collectively, this volume's contributions interrogate how
children's literature is a powerful yet under examined space of
rhetorical discourse that influences one of the most vulnerable
segments of our population. This book is singularly unique given
that it will be the first collection of essays on children's
literature from the distinct perspective of the field of
Communication. Beyond topical novelty, the contributors utilize a
range of scholarly methods to analyze instances of the rhetoric of
children's literature. Consequently, essays in this volume may be
read for both their specific topical content and as exemplars for
multiple methodological approaches to the study of the rhetoric of
children's literature. Collectively, the contributors set out to
contribute to our knowledge of how instances of children's
literature operate as rhetorical discourses. The volume is
organized by case studies approached through critical, rhetorical
lenses that analyze specific instances of children's literature
from two distinct stages of children's developmental reading
experiences including pre/early literacy and fluent reading.
Structurally, the book includes eight content chapters divided
evenly with four chapters analyzing books for young children and
four chapters analyzing books targeting audiences from
late-childhood to adolescence. An overview of each content chapter
accompanies this proposal. is an edited volume with contributions
from established and new scholars of rhetoric offering case studies
that analyze a full array of genres in children's literature from
picture books to young adult novels. Collectively, this volume's
contributions interrogate how children's literature is a powerful
yet under examined space of rhetorical discourse that influences
one of the most vulnerable segments of our population. This book is
singularly unique given that it will be the first collection of
essays on children's literature from the distinct perspective of
the field of Communication. Beyond topical novelty, the
contributors utilize a range of scholarly methods to analyze
instances of the rhetoric of children's literature. Consequently,
essays in this volume may be read for both their specific topical
content and as exemplars for multiple methodological approaches to
the study of the rhetoric of children's literature. Collectively,
the contributors set out to contribute to our knowledge of how
instances of children's literature operate as rhetorical
discourses. The volume is organized by case studies approached
through critical, rhetorical lenses that analyze specific instances
of children's literature from two distinct stages of children's
developmental reading experiences including pre/early literacy and
fluent reading. Structurally, the book includes eight content
chapters divided evenly with four chapters analyzing books for
young children and four chapters analyzing books targeting
audiences from late-childhood to adolescence. An overview of each
content chapter accompanies this proposal.
Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and
Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of
genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform
sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just
Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked by
genocidal violence in ways that commit ourselves to a deeper
understanding and more humane practice of justice. The chapters are
thematically organized, focusing on specific sites of memory to
highlight symbolic inducements of memorial discourses. Chapter 2
analyzes U.S. public discourse concerning an "Armenian Genocide"
resolution to elucidate the role of politics in the production,
dissemination, and maintenance of memory. Chapter 3 offers a
historical account of the shift in public discourse concerning the
capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, demonstrating how
and with what consequences the discourses shifted from a focus on
law to a focus on morality. Chapter 4 expands this work by
analyzing how competing narrative accounts of historical figures
and events (Eichmann and the Holocaust) influence what we remember,
how we remember, and the ends to which we apply such memories.
Chapter 5 analyzes the Report of the President's Commission on the
Holocaust that produced the United States' official remembrance of
the Holocaust. This chapter argues that the Commission Report
provides an exemplary explanation for why we should remember and
provokes a complex understanding of what we are to remember.
Chapter 6 concludes the book by focusing on the productive capacity
of the humanitarian aims of U.S. Holocaust remembrance.
This book explores how culture functions and intersects with
religious groups, particularly Christians. It explores the way
electronic communications, especially film and television, shape
our world of meaning. Using the theories of British thinker Raymond
Williams as his framework, Warren focuses on the actual process by
which versions of reality are produced, the production of
signification. He also draws on the ideas of Paulo Freire pointing
out that cultural agency happens when individuals decide to
exercise some judgment and control over the kinds of cultural
material they will accept or resist.
If culture is a signifying system, says Warren, then religion is
too. Contrasting values from the wider culture create dilemmas for
those trying to follow a religious life. Choices either mirror the
wider culture or reflect a culture of resistance. Warren seeks to
help the reader develop the skills of cultural analysis by paying
attention to the images that support culture, examining the life
structures that support culture, and paying attention to how any
particular aspect of culture is produced. Beyond all this, however,
the author calls for a stance of resistance to all that violates
human dignity and unity--all the aspects of culture that persons
with high religious ideals cannot accept.
Demonstrates the intimate relationship between biological diversity
and cultural diversity. The 15 contributors look at experimentation
using crops such as rice, maize, beans and root crops, illustrated
by case studies from India, Nepal and Nigeria among others. There
are also studies of water harvesting in the Sudan and of the home
gardens in South India.;The findings of this study show: farmers do
experiment; farmers know their local environments intimately, and
their experiments are usually site-specific; farmers have a close
and detailed knowledge of local cultivators, and are well aware of
the need to promote biological diversity; the experiments underlie
the imporatnce of "in situ" conservation, including the protection
of wild plants; and any attempts of local conservation of natural
resources should involve the local inhabitants.;This collection
emphasizes the importance of cultural factors and will contribute
to the debate about biological diversity.
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Brilliant (Paperback)
David Michael Warren; Contributions by Jaclyn Warren, Word on Fire Institute
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