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.
Rhetorics, Literacies, and Narratives of Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Goggin
July 03, 2014
In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability. Touching on topics including conservation efforts in specific locales; social and political constructions of rhetorical place and space; community ...
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form: Sighting Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Demo, Bradford Vivian
November 08, 2013
This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are ...
The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner
September 20, 2013
This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant ...
The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture
1st Edition
By Jessica Reyman
November 13, 2012
In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to ...
Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11
1st Edition
By Marita Gronnvoll
April 20, 2012
In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media ...
Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation: Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity
1st Edition
By Dustin Bradley Goltz
July 01, 2011
Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon ...