Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies. Interdisciplinary in approaches, these titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Information Rhetorics: Memetics and the Dream of Reverse Engineering Nature and Culture
1st Edition
By Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
April 08, 2026
Combining a rhetorical approach to the study of memes with profound philosophical concepts about information as a fundamental building block of existence, Information Rhetorics presents a framework for understanding the world through the lens of information transfer. Drawing from rhetorical ...
Place in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Text and Topos
1st Edition
Edited
By Randall Fowler, J. Scott Lee
April 01, 2026
This book explains the enduring significance of topos, an Aristotelian translation of the concept of Place, by exploring how place shapes the kinds of arguments we make, texts we produce, the arts and technology we use. In tracing the intellectual lineage of topos from classical rhetorical theory...
Tricksters of Gotham: The Joker, The Batman, and The Christopher Nolan Trilogy
1st Edition
By Robert E. Terrill
August 08, 2025
Tricksters of Gotham explores the "trickster" tale through an in-depth look at Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. The trickster figure is an ancient and variable figure, versions of which populate the myths and folklore of many human ...
Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements
1st Edition
By Luke Winslow, Eli Mangold
July 30, 2025
This book examines “Rhetorical Children” as visible and vocal communicators, shaping public discourse on contentious social issues related to organized labor, civil rights, gun violence, and climate change. This book explores four key social movement case studies: the 1903 Mother Jones-led March of...
Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University
1st Edition
By Emily Murphy Cope
July 30, 2025
Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary addresses the question of how Christian undergraduates engage in academic writing and how best to teach them to participate in academic inquiry and prepare them for civic engagement. Exploring how the secular both constrains and supports undergraduates’ ...
Classical Rhetorical Argumentation for the Rhetorical Critic
1st Edition
By Mika Hietanen
July 07, 2025
This book offers a reassessment of argumentation in classical rhetoric, foregrounding its rational dimension. Moving beyond introductions, it provides insights from Aristotle, Quintilian, and other ancient thinkers while addressing common misconceptions and offering clarifications that are ...
White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging
1st Edition
By Charlotte Hogg
May 05, 2025
Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion. Renewed calls to end Greek-letter organizations for racism and sexism, ...
Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women’s Health
1st Edition
By Bryna Siegel Finer, Cathryn Molloy, Jamie White-Farnham
January 30, 2025
This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making. Combining focus group research, content analysis, autoethnography, and textual inquiry, the book argues that...
Difficult Empathy and Rhetorical Encounters
1st Edition
By Eric Leake
December 18, 2024
Difficult Empathy takes up the question of empathy as fundamentally a rhetorical concern, focusing on the ways we encounter and understand one another in what we read and write, hear and say. The book centres around the argument that empathy as a rhetorical event occurs not simply in the minds of ...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing
1st Edition
By Kristin Marie Bivens
October 24, 2024
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge — systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric — as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history. Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the ...
Violence, Silence, and Rhetorical Cultures of Champion-Building in Sports
1st Edition
By Kathleen Sandell Hardesty
October 09, 2024
This book takes a close look at systems and rhetorics of silencing in sports training. Using the case study of the Larry Nassar abuse scandal at Michigan State University and within USA Gymnastics, the book explores multifaceted problems of speaking, silencing, and listening in youth and college ...
Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics
1st Edition
By Mónica Reyes
September 20, 2024
This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay. Centered around a study conducted at a shelter on the U.S. border, this book moves beyond this context to demonstrate how ...