Christopher Lyle Johnstone is an associate professor of rhetoric and basic course director in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. A specialist in rhetoric and philosophy, communication ethics, and Greek rhetorical theory, Johnstone is the editor of Theory, Text, Context: Issues in Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. His articles and essays have appeared in the Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, Philosophy and Rhetoric, the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Advances in the History of Rhetoric and in several edited volumes.
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Christopher Lyle Johnstone: Listening to the Logos
An exploration of the role of language arts in forming and expressing wisdom from Homer to Aristotle In Listening to the Logos, Christopher Lyle Johnstone provides an unprecedented comprehensive acco …
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John Poulakos: Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
An introduction to the rhetorical tradition of sophistical dialectics in antiquity In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos offers a new conceptualization of sophistry, explaining i …
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Edward Schiappa: Protagoras and Logos
Reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contributions of Protagoras Protagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of …
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Jeffrey Walker: The Genuine Teachers of This Art
Genuine Teachers of This Art examines the technê, or ‘handbook, ‘ tradition—which it controversially suggests began with Isocrates—as the central tradition in ancient rhetoric and a potential model f …
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Gerard A. Hauser: Prisoners of Conscience
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association’s Hochmuth Nich …
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Richard C. Marback: Managing Vulnerability
In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyzes the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South …
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John Arthos: Speaking Hermeneutically
A fruitful consideration of the interplay of hermeneutic theory and rhetorical practice in communication John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist pract …
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Xiao Ming: The Cultural Economy of Falun Gong in China
Emerging in China in the early 1990s, Falun Gong is viewed by its supporters as a folk movement promoting the benefits of good health and moral cultivation. To the Chinese establishment, however, it …
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Christopher W. Tindale: Reason’s Dark Champions
A complex and complete picture of the theory, practice, and reception of Sophistic argument Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists’ reputation, revising the Platonic and Ar …
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Nathan Crick: Democracy and Rhetoric
An innovative approach to Dewey’s view of rhetoric as art, revealing an ‘ontology of becoming’ In Democracy and Rhetoric, Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey’s body of work a philosophy of rheto …
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Amy Koerber: Breast or Bottle?
Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversi …
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Kathleen S. Lamp: A City of Marble
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augu …
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Keith Yellin: Battle Exhortation
A commanding study of the motivational speech of military leaders across the centuries In this groundbreaking examination of the symbolic strategies used to prepare troops for imminent combat, Keith …
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Stephen A. Schneider: You Can’t Padlock an Idea
You Can’t Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democ …
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Shannon Walters: Rhetorical Touch
Rhetorical Touch argues for an understanding of touch as a rhetorical art by approaching the sense of touch through the kinds of bodies and minds that rhetorical history and theory have tended to exc …
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Nathan Crick: Rhetoric and Power
An examination of how intellectuals and artists conceptualized rhetoric as a medium of power in a dynamic age of democracy and empire In Rhetoric and Power, Nathan Crick dramatizes the history of rhe …
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Ekaterina V. Haskins: Popular Memories
A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroo …
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Jonathan Buehl: Assembling Arguments
Scientific arguments—and indeed arguments in most disciplines—depend on visuals and other nontextual elements; however, most models of argumentation typically neglect these important resources. In As …
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Stephen Howard Browne: The Ides of War
An examination of the powerful role human agency and rhetoric played in the founding of the nation History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military m …
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Thomas R. Dunn: Queerly Remembered
An interdisciplinary examination of the strategies GLBTQ communities have used to advocate for political, social, and cultural change Queerly Remembered investigates the ways in which gay, lesbian, b …
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Krista Kennedy: Textual Curation
A study of the roles community, financial support, texts, information structures, interfaces, and technology play in collaborative works Wikipedia is arguably the most famous collaboratively written …
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Xing Lu: The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong
A thorough examination of the Chinese leader’s speeches and writings that reshaped a nation’s culture Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy an …
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Robin Reames: Logos without Rhetoric
A germinal examination of rhetoric’s beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called ‘rhetoric’? Must art have a name to be considered ar …
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Nathan Crick: The Keys of Power
Examines Transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power Nathan Crick has crafted a new critical rhetorical history of American Trans …
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Maria E. Gigante: Introducing Science through Images
An examination of how images can serve as communication tools to popularize science in the public eye As funding for basic scientific research becomes increasingly difficult to secure, public support …
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Michele Kennerly: Editorial Bodies
Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted te …
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Ann George: Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change
A guide to and analysis of a seminal books key concepts and methodology Since its publication in 1935, Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change, a text that can serve as an introduction to all his theor …
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M. Lane Bruner: Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis
Case studies exploring the roots of persuasion and rhetorical unconsciousness Rhetorical Unconsciousness and Political Psychoanalysis investigates unintentional forms of persuasion, their political c …
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Michael J. Hyde: The Interruption That We Are
In a world of ever-increasing medical technology, a study of the need for wisdom, truth, and public moral argument In this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosoph …
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Thomas W. Benson: Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism
This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies …
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Thomas W. Benson: Landmark Essays on Rhetorical Criticism
This book is an anthology of landmark essays in rhetorical criticism. In historical usage, a landmark marks a path or a boundary; as a metaphor in social and intellectual history, landmark signifies …
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