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This edited volume applies rhetorical methodologies to dramatic literature and performative text, exploring a wide range of themes, including musical theater, revivals, children's theater, disabilities, democracy, architecture, space, theosophy, and interfaith communication.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Rhetorical Criticism as a Research Method for Analyzing Musical Theater Texts
Valerie Lynn Schrader
Chapter 2: The Rhetoric of identity and Ideology in the Broadway Musical Revival: An Exploration of the Musicals Oklahoma!, West Side Story and Parade
Jessica Neu
Chapter 3: Remember Who You Are: A Rhetorrectional Situation Analysis of "They Live in You" and "He Lives in You" from Disney's The Lion King
Ann Broda
Chapter 4: A Farmer, a Lawyer and a Sage: Identity and Identification in Paulus and Page's 1776
Emma Loerick and Casey Berner
Chapter 5: Devising Democracy: Inclusive Rhetoric and Communication through Devised Theater Processes
Courtney Helen Grile and Amanda Hill
Chapter 6: Performance, Place and Public Memory: To Kill a Mockingbird at Monroeville's Old Courthouse Museum
Jefferson Walker
Chapter 7: The Spectacle of Didacticism in the January 6th Hearings
Tony Palmeri
Chapter 8: Rhetorical Invitation in Straight Line Crazy: Evaluating Robert Moses' Legacy through Drama
Christopher Lee Adamczyk and Mary P. Caulfield
Chapter 9: Understanding Christopher: How The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Develops Awareness of the Neurodivergent Community
Valerie Lynn Schrader and Jessica Neu
Chapter 10: Making Voice: Sign Language on Stage
LaReina Hingson
Chapter 11: Children's Theater as Essential "Equipment for Living"
John H. Saunders
Chapter 12: The Missing Link in the Golden Chain: Judaic and Kabbalistic Eloquence in Thornton Wilder's Plays
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels
About the author
Adrienne E. Hacker Daniels is professor emerita at Illinois College.
