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Informationen zum Autor About the Editors Shawn J. Parry-Giles is Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Political communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955 (2001) and co-author of Constructing Clinton: Hyper-Reality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics (2002) and The Prime-Time Presidency : The West Wing and US Nationalism (2006). She is the co-editor of P ublic Address and Moral Judgment: Critical Studies in Ethical Tensions (2009). J. Michael Hogan is Professor of Rhetoric and Co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of the Panama Canal In American Politics (1986), The Nuclear Freeze Campaign (1994), and Woodrow Wilson's Western Tour (2006). He also edited two other volumes, Rhetoric and Community (1998) and Rhetoric and Reform in the Progressive Era (2003). In 2008, Hogan was elected a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. Klappentext HANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA "This excellent volume explores theoretical and critical perspectives that inform the study of public address, engaging significant issues of contemporary scholarship. Its contribution to the study of rhetoric as a force in history and as a tool of democratic deliberation is enormous." James R. Andrews, Indiana University "This is a timely and important book. The work of exceptional scholars, it at once embodies the finest traditions in the theory and criticism of public disclosure, and points readers in innovative directions for productive research in the twenty-first century. The volume combines case studies, explorations in theory and method, and exemplary archival research in a fashion certain to be of value to scholars at every level." David Henry, University of Nevada at Las Vegas "Parry-Giles and Hogan have given us a gift. Their edited volume contains insightful, timely analysis from some of the best minds in the discipline on where public address scholarship has been, where it is, and where it might be going. The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address pushes scholars to reflect on important theoretical, political, and methodological issues while it simultaneously underscores the continuing relevance of rhetoric and its study to civic education. All in all, this volume is splendid contribution." Denise M. Bostdorff, The College of Wooster Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address is a state-of-the-art companion to the field that showcases both the historical traditions and the future possibilities for public address scholarship in the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiv Introduction: The Study of Rhetoric and Public Address 1 Shawn J. Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan Part I The History and Prospects of Rhetoric and Public Address 17 1 The History of Public Address as an Academic Study 19 Martin J. Medhurst 2 Public Address Scholarship in the New Century: Achievements and Challenges 67 David Zarefsky 3 Rhetorical Criticism 2009: A Study in Method 86 Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Part II Basic Research in Rhetoric and Public Address 109 4 Textual Recovery, Textual Discovery: Returning to Our Past, Imagining Our Future 111 Davis W. Houck 5 The Processes and Challenges of Textual Authentication 133 Robert N. Gaines 6 Archival Research and the American Presidency: The Political and Rhetorical Complexities of Presidential Records 157 Shawn J. Parry-Giles 7 From Recovering Women's Words t...
