At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572303999 ISBN 13: 9781572303997

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

What is the relationship between cultural and rhetorical studies? What can the two fields learn from each other? This insightful volume is based on the premise that these fields address specific and parallel questions about culture, critical practice, and interpretation, and that opening up a dialogue between them can enhance both and provide a more complete understanding of society. Noted scholars across a variety of disciplines examine the overlaps and contradictions between these approaches, how they can contribute to each other, and the problems and questions that surface with this linkage. Exploring both critical and pedagogical practice, contributors address such questions as the relationship between images, representation, and ideology; influence and the struggle for power; how to blend theory and case study analysis effectively; and the goals of academic work.

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Thomas Rosteck, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

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This provocative volume is based on the premise that cultural studies and rhetorical studies address specific and parallel questions about culture, critical practice, and interpretation, and that opening up a dialogue between them can enhance both and provide a more complete understanding of society. Noted scholars across a variety of disciplines examine overlaps and contradictions between these approaches as well as critical and pedagogical issues that surface with their linkage.

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Preface
Approaching the Intersection: Introduction to Issues of Identity, Politics, and Critical Practice, Thomas Rosteck
I. Reading the Popular and the Political: Converging Trajectories of Textuality, Method, Context
1. Commemorating in the Theme Park Zone: Reading the Astronauts Memorial, Carole Blair and Neil Michel
2. Catching the Third Wave: The Dialectic of Rhetoric and Technology, James Arnt Aune
3. Reading the Culture Wars: Ideology, Traveling Rhetoric and the Reception of Curricular Reform, Steven Mailloux
4. Subject Positions as a Site of Rhetorical Struggle: Representing African-Americans, Barry Brummett and Detine L. Bowers
5. American Cultural Criticism in the Pragmatic Attitude, Elizabeth Walker Mechling and Jay Mechling
6. The Character of "History" in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies, Celeste Michelle Condit
7. The Ambassador's Body: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Gaze, Henry Krips
II. Visioning Alternatives: Beyond the Intersection
8. The Linguisticality of Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Close Reading, and Contextualization, Cary M. Nelson
9. A Tradition of Culture in Rhetorical Studies, Thomas Rosteck
10. Cultural Struggle: A Politics of Meaning in Rhetorical Studies, John M. Sloop and Mark Olson
11. The Triumph of Social Science: The Silent Language as Master Text in American Cultural Studies, Bruce E. Gronbeck
12. Anti-Theory and Its Antithesis: Rhetoric and Ideology, Patrick Brantlinger
13. Courting Community in Contemporary Culture, Thomas S. Frentz and Janice Hocker Rushing

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572303999
• ISBN 13: 9781572303997
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Rosteck Thomas