Texts in context: critical dialogues on significant episodes in American political rhetoric: with newly-edited speech texts by Anna E. Dickinson and by Martin Luther King, Jr

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Contents: Preface. R.L. Scott, Foreword: Against Rhetorical Theory: Tripping to Serendip. Part I: Current Views of Public Address. D. Zarefsky, The State of the Art in Public Address Scholarship. M.J. Medhurst, Public Address and Significant Scholarship: Four Challenges to the Rhetorical Renaissance. J.A. Aune, Public Address and Rhetorical Theory. Part II: Six Case Studies. S.H. Browne, Burke's Speech on Conciliation: The Pragmatic Basis of Rhetorical Judgment. J.L. Lucaites, Burke's Speech on Conciliation as Oppositional Discourse. K.K. Campbell, La Pucelle D'Orleans Becomes an American Girl: Anna Dickinson's W. Linkugel, R. Rowland, Response to Karlyn Kohrs Campbell's Anna E. Dickinson's Jeanne D'Arc: Divergent Views. R.L. Ivie, Metaphor and Motive in the Johnson Administration's Vietnam War Rhetoric. B. Brummett, Some Burkean Roads Not Taken: Response to Ivie. M. Osborn, Been to the Mountaintop: The Critic as Participant. J.W. Wenzel, A Dangerous Unselfishness: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at Memphis, April 3, 1968: Response to Osborn. J.R. Cox, The Fulfillment of Time: King's I Have a Dream Speech (August 28, 1963). R. Hariman, Time and the Reconstitution of Gradualism in King's Address: Response to Cox. C.M. Condit, Nixon's Fund: Time as Ideological Resource in the Checkers Speech. T.B. Farrell, The Carnival as Confessional: Re-reading the Figurative Dimension in Nixon's 'Checkers' Speech. Part III: Epilogue. D.P. Gaonkar, Epilogue The Oratorical Text: The Enigma of Arrival. Part IV: Two Newly-Edited Speech Texts. A.E. Dickinson, Jeanne D'Arc. M.L. King, Jr., I've Been to the Mountaintop.