Overview :Techniques of Close Reading, Second Edition helps you gain a deeper understanding of what texts may be saying, whether they are written, ora... Read More
Overview :Brummett addresses the question of how the aesthetic experience of machines can have rhetorical influence. He develops a theory of machine a... Read More
Overview :Intellectuals today cringe when a politician speaks of the Second Coming, the millennium, or the Antichrist. Certain questions naturally ari... Read More
Overview :One of the most widely used ideas in scholarship of the humanities and social sciences is that of homology: a formal pattern structuring dif... Read More
Overview :Exploring style in a global cultureIn A Rhetoric of Style, Barry Brummett illustrates how style is increasingly a global system of communica... Read More
Overview :In the inaugural series of "Landmark Essay" books, this is the only volume which focuses on the work of one scholar. Kenneth Burke -- poet, ... Read More
Overview :This unique book explores how the aesthetic/cultural movement "Steampunk" persuades audiences through rhetoric. Steampunk is an aesthetic st... Read More
Overview :Millions of people around the world are engaged in sports and games. This volume studies the ways in which engagement is performed in popula... Read More
Overview :Sometimes movies, television shows, political speeches, and music lyrics seem to be about one thing on the surface but express other serious... Read More
Overview :This volume of essays examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States. T... Read More
Overview :The Sixth Edition of Barry Brummett's Rhetoric in Popular Culture provides readers with in-depth insight into the techniques of rhetorical c... Read More
Overview :Brummett explores the ways people use three key terms--reality, representation, and simulation--as rhetorical devices with political and soc... Read More
Overview :The main argument of this book is that most rhetorical theory defines rhetoric as its manifestations - speeches, essays, poems and so forth.... Read More