The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects: Past, Present, Future

Book Overview

An examination of the foundation of rhetorical criticism as reconceptualized for the twenty-first century

The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects tackles one of the thorniest and longest-standing issues in the discipline of rhetoric--the issue of effects. While the field's founders valued the assessment of a speech's effects, later scholars moved away from it, privileging textual analysis, symbols, and meaning. Though...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174554
• ISBN13: 9781611174557
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"