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Contributions

Articles

 

Michelle
Brophy-Baermann

True Love on TV:
A Gendered Analysis of
Reality-Romance Television

 

Mary Caputi

Ground Zero, an American Origin

 

Leah Ceccarelli

Uniting Biology and the Social Sciences:
A Rhetorical Comparison of
E. O. Wilson’s Consilience and
Theodosius Dobzhansky’s Mankind Evolving

 

Alfonso J. Damico

Liberalism and Culturism
as Interrogatories:
Reading Lolita in Tehran

 

Richard Doyle

A Coma Speaks:
Dead Zones of Media and the
Replication of Family Value

 

Chuck Dyke

The Silent Spring of Bruno Latour,
Or Rachel Carson Never Was Modern

 

Steve Fuller

 

The Darwinian Left:
A Rhetoric of Realism or Reaction?

 

Steve Fuller

The Globalization of Rhetoric
and Its Discontents

 

Christine Gerhardt

“What was left of Berlin
looked bleaker every day”:
Berlin, Race, and Ethnicity
in Recent American Literature

 

Bruce E. Gronbeck

The Sentimentalization of
American Political Rhetoric

 

Leslie A. Hahner

From the Louisville Lip to the Champ:
The Muhammad Ali Center and
Planning Memory Politics

 

Cristina Lopez

Post-Biomechanics:
Difference and Gender in
Margulis and Sagan’s What Is Sex?

 

Elizabeth Markovits

Economizing Debate:
Rhetoric, Citizenship, and the World Bank

 

Kembrew McLeod

Cease and Desist:
Freedom of Expression in the
Shadows of Intellectual Property

 

William H. Meyer

Global Governance,
Human Rights, and
International Justice

 

John S. Nelson

Four Forms of Terrorism:
Horror, Dystopia, Thriller, and Noir

 

Robert Newman

Moral Judgments and Wars
of the Twentieth Century

 

Russell L. Peterson

Strange Bedfellows:
The Politics of Late-Night
Television Comedy

 

Joanna Ploeger

Techno-Scientific Spectacle:
The Rhetoric of IMAX in the
Contemporary Science Museum

 

Aimee Carrillo Rowe
and Sheena Malhotra

Chameleon Conservatism:
Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Innocence

 

Thomas Shevory

From Censorship to Irony:
Rhetorical Responses to 9/11

 

Thomas Shevory

All We Are Singing:
Popular Musical Responses
to the War in Iraq

 

Herbert W. Simons

The Globalization of Rhetoric
and the Argument from
Disciplinary Consequence

 

Marek D. Steedman

State Power, Hegemony,
and Memory:
Lotman and Gramsci

 

James A.
Throgmorton

Race from Berlin to Louisville:
An Introduction

 

Susan Zickmund

Constructing Political Identity:
Religious Radicalism and the
Rhetoric of the Iranian Revolution

 

 

 

Conspectuses

 

David Depew

Introduction to a Special Issue on
Rhetorics of Biology in the Age of
Biomechanical Reproduction

 

John S. Nelson

Rhetorics of Response to 9/11:
The Aftermath of Terror

 

John S. Nelson

Rhetoric and its Discontents

 

John S. Nelson

The Summer of Our Disbelief:
Wars, Courts, Trades, Identities,
Experiences . . . and Campaigns

 

John S. Nelson

A Gentleman and a Scholar:
A Tribute to Edward Lane Davis

 

John S. Nelson

Emotions as Reasons
in Public Arguments

 

John S. Nelson

All’s Fair:
Love, War, Politics,
and Other Spectacles

 

 
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Film Takes

 

Linda Beail

One True Thing about
Mothers and Feminism

 

Kenneth de Luca

Spielberg’s Deus ex Machina:
Saving Private Ryan

 

John S. Nelson

The Passion of the Film:
Cinematic Modes of Empathy
in the Service of Moral Action

 

John S. Nelson

Political Rhetorics for Film:
Argument through Experience
in War Movies

 

 

 

Multimedia Inquiries

 

 

Francis A. Beer
and G. R. Boynton

Globalizing Terror

 

Cara A. Finnegan

“Liars May Photograph”:
Image Vernaculars and
Progressive Era Child Labor Rhetoric

 

Robert Hariman and
John Louis Lucaites

Visual Tropes and Late-Modern
Emotion in U.S. Public Culture

 

Brett Ommen

One Fish, Two Fish;
Red State, Blue State

 

 

 

Myth Scapes

 

 

Samuel A. Chambers
and Daniel Williford

Anti-Imperialism in the Buffyverse:
Challenging the Mythos
of Bush as Vampire Slayer

 

John S. Nelson

Cowboys or Vampire Killers?
The Bush Gang Rides Again, or
American Figures in Foreign Affairs

 

 

 

 

Rhetorical Inventions

 

Celeste M. Condit

A Posthumanist Archaeological Expedition

 

Christopher Merrill

The Sound of Falling

 

Thom Swiss
and Seb Chevrel

The Narrative You Anticipate
You May Produce

 

 

 

Strategy Studies

 

 

Dana L. Cloud

Therapy, Silence, and War:
Consolation and the End of Deliberation
in the “Affected” Public

 

Joseph H. Lane Jr.

Thucydides Beyond the Cold War:
The Recurrence of Relevance
in the Classical Historians

 

Anna Lorien Nelson

Cyberspace, Censorship,
and the Constitution

 

Glenn Perusek

Strategy and Changing Moods
in Thucydides

 

 

 

Word Tours

 

 

David Depew

Empathy, Psychology, and Aesthetics:
Reflections on a Repair Concept

 

Russell Scott
Valentino

From the Challenge of Virtue
to the Challenges of Virtual

 

Russell Scott
Valentino

The Oxymoron of Empathic Criticism:
Readerly Empathy, Critical Explication,
and the Translator's Creative Understanding

 

 
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