Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and CasesKathleen J. Turner In the thirteen essays gathered here, eminent scholars address the ongoing dialogue over the regrounding of rhetorical study and the relationship between theory and history as well as history and criticism in the field. Some examine the conceptual issues involved in the juncture of rhetoric and history; others offer case studies, often based on research with primary documents, to illustrate the process and promise of rhetorical history. |
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... Lincoln Association.10 My sub- ject was Lincoln's implicit theory of persuasion , my project to un- pack the statement that " public sentiment is everything , " which he made in the Ottawa debate with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Readers ...
... Lincoln Association.10 My sub- ject was Lincoln's implicit theory of persuasion , my project to un- pack the statement that " public sentiment is everything , " which he made in the Ottawa debate with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Readers ...
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... Lincoln's brief opening was followed by an unusually brisk con- frontation of immediate realities . ( Only Franklin Roosevelt's First In- augural matches the tone and conveys the determination to face the obvious , preoccupying crisis ...
... Lincoln's brief opening was followed by an unusually brisk con- frontation of immediate realities . ( Only Franklin Roosevelt's First In- augural matches the tone and conveys the determination to face the obvious , preoccupying crisis ...
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... Lincoln's inaugural was imbued with a democratic ethos that defined the people broadly and construed their powers as grounded in majority rule . Lincoln's assertion that he was enjoined to support the laws in all the states was followed ...
... Lincoln's inaugural was imbued with a democratic ethos that defined the people broadly and construed their powers as grounded in majority rule . Lincoln's assertion that he was enjoined to support the laws in all the states was followed ...
Contents
Rhetorical History as Social Construction | 1 |
Four Senses of Rhetorical History | 19 |
The Rhetorical Construction of History | 33 |
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