June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
11h 21m
English
Chapter 15
The problematic situation of rhetoric’s materiality emerges from within the desire of rhetorical scholars to maintain rhetoric as a practical art situated in time and space while also advancing rhetoric as an interpretive art robust enough to isolate the influential character of nearly anything. As a practical art, rhetoric’s materiality is registered in how humans craft discourse for the purpose of making public decisions. As an interpretive art, rhetoric’s materiality is often recorded in the growth of objects that exhibit social influence. From speeches to soap operas and from movies to sculpture, rhetoric’s ...
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