Books in the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series

This book documents the intellectual property experiences of writing studies scholars and challenges naturalized ways of responding to intellectual property concerns.

This book offers new insight into the ways rhetorical educators' religious motives influenced the shape of nineteenth-century rhetorical education and invites scholars of writing and rhetoric to consider what the study of religiously-animated pedagogies might reveal about rhetorical education itself.

Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from "Shortbus" and "Poseidon" to "Noah's Arc" and Dawson's Creek, this title examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon 'young' gay male bodies, while devaluing health, aging, and longevity.

Offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, as well as the popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24).

This book examines the rhetorical and discursive ways that governments and corporations shape public opinion and public policy and activists attempt to reframe public debates in order to resist corporate framing regarding oil in the twenty-first century.

Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women''s education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women''s speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women''s oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women''s oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women''s responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women''s oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.

This volume takes up rhetorical approaches to our primarily linguistic understanding of how names work, considering how theories of materiality in rhetoric enrich conceptions of the name as word or symbol and help explain the processes of name bestowal, accumulation, loss, and theft. Contributors theorize the formation, modification, and recontexualization of names as a result of technological and cultural change, and consider the ways in which naming influences identity and affects/grants power.

This volume explores a dimension of authorship not given its due in the critical discourse to this point-authorship contested. Each chapter focuses on particular instances in which authorship has been contested, demonstrating how theories about various forms of contested authorship play out in a range of events, from the complex issues surrounding peer review to authorship in the age of intelligent machines.

This book theorizes digital logics and applications for the rhetorical canon of delivery. Given its provocative and broad reframing of delivery, it provides original, robust ways to understand rhetorical delivery not only through a lens of digital writing technologies, but all historical means of enacting delivery, offering implications that will ultimately affect how scholars of rhetoric will come to view not only the other canons of rhetoric, but rhetoric as a whole.

This volume explores the intersection of rhetoric and sexuality through the varieties of methods available in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies, including case studies, theoretical questioning, ethnographies, or close (and distant) readings of "texts" that help us think through the rhetorical force of sexuality and the sexual force of rhetoric.

This volume outlines pedagogical projects to the (re)production of public memory as a way to advance students' writing and rhetorical repertoire.

Vernacular Christian Rhetoric and Civil Discourse seeks to address the current gap in American public discourse between secular liberals and religiously committed citizens by focusing on the academic and public writing of millennial evangelical Christian students. Analysis of such writing reveals that the evangelical Christian faith of contemporary college students-and the rhetorical practice motivated by it-is marked by an openness to social context and pluralism that offers possibilities for civil discourse. Based on case studies of evangelical Christian student writers, contextualized within nationally-representative trends as reported by the National Study of Youth and Religion, and grounded in scholarship from rhetorical theory, composition studies, folklore studies, and sociology of religion, this book offers rhetorical educators a new terministic screen that reveals the complex processes at work within our students'' vernacular constructions of religious faith.