Book reviews

• Published in: The Quarterly journal of speech Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 466 - 511
• Main Authors: Lucaites, John Louis, Frentz, Thomas, Sloop, John M., Rushing, Janice Hocker, Nakayama, Thomas K., Hart, Roderick P., Projansky, Sarah, Pearson, Kyra, Hasian, Marouf A., Parry-Giles, Trevor, Bjork, Rebecca S., Ceccarelli, Leah, Demo, Anne, Brummett, Barry, Thomas, Douglas, Troup, Calvin L., Lyne, John, McOmber, James B., Green, Lawrence D., Purcell, William M., Darsey, James, Olson, Lester C., Weiler, Michael, Murphy, John M., Anderson, Karrin Vasby, Jensen, Richard J., Terrill, Robert E.
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.1997
• ISSN: 0033-5630; 1479-5779
• DOI: 10.1080/00335639709384198

ZEN IN THE ART OF RHETORIC: AN INQUIRY INTO COHERENCE. By Mark Lawrence McPhail. New York: State University of New York Press. 1996; pp. v + 220. $19.95 AFTER POSTMODERNISM: RECONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE. Ed. By Herbert W. Simons and Michael Billig. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub. 1994; pp. x + 258. $69.95; paper $19.95 PRIME-TIME FEMINISM: TELEVISION, MEDIA CULTURE, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT SINCE 1970. By Bonnie J. Dow. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. xxvi + 224. $39.95; paper $17.50. THE CULTURAL PRISON: DISCOURSE, PRISONERS, AND PUNISHMENT. By John M. Sloop. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996; pp. viii + 244. $39.95. BECOMING CITIZENS IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION: HOW AMERICANS CHALLENGED THE MEDIA AND SEIZED INITIATIVE DURING THE IRAN-CONTRA DEBATE. By David P. Thelen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. pp. x + 244. $55.00; paper $14.95. RAPE ON TRIAL: HOW THE MASS MEDIA CONSTRUCT LEGAL REFORM AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Lisa M. Cuklanz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. vii + 135. $28.95; paper $12.95. LAW'S STORIES: NARRATIVE AND RHETORIC IN THE LAW. Edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 290. $26.00. POST-REALISM: THE RHETORICAL TURN IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Edited by Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 429. $35.95; paper $24.95. DEFINING SCIENCE: A RHETORIC OF DEMARCATION. By Charles Alan Taylor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996; pp vii + 292. $53.00; paper $22.95. IM/PARTIAL SCIENCE: GENDER IDEOLOGY IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. By Bonnie B. Spanier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1995; pp. xi + 207. $29.95; paper $14.95. KENNETH BURKE: RHETORIC, SUBJECTIVITY, POSTMODERNISM. By Robert Wess. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xxi + 262. $54.95; paper $18.95. THE GIFT OF DEATH. By Jacques Derrida. Trans. David Wills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995; $18.95. AUGUSTINE AND THE LIMITS OF POLITICS. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995; pp. xiv + 143. $21.95. RHETORIC, SOPHISTRY, PRAGMATISM. Edited by Steven Mailloux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pp.xii + 251. $54.95; paper $16.95. THE RHETORIC OF REASON: WRITING AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF ARGUMENT. By James Crosswhite. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. xii + 329. $58.00; paper $24.95 ESSAYS ON ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC. Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. Philosophical Traditions 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996; pp. xxiii + 441. $50.00; paper $19.95. RHETORIC AS PEDAGOGY: ITS HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND PRACTICE; ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JAMES J. MURPHY. Edited by Winifred Bryan Homer and Michael Leff. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1995; pp. xvi + 337. $69.95; paper $34.50. VOICING AMERICA: LANGUAGE, LITERARY FORM, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE UNITED STATES. By Christopher Looby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; pp. xi + 287. $29.95. THE LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL RHETORIC IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1790-1900. By Andrew W. Robertson. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. xv + 264. $35.00. THE CONUNDRUM OF CLASS: PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON THE SOCIAL ORDER IN AMERICA. By Martin J. Burke. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. xvii + 303. $47.50; paper $16.95. "IN A PERILOUS HOUR": THE PUBLIC ADDRESS OFJOHN F. KENNEDY. By Steven R. Goldzwig and George N. Dionisopoulos. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1995; pp. xv + 219. $59.95. THE END OF VICTORY CULTURE: COLD WAR AMERICA AND THE DISILLUSIONING OF A GENERATION. By Tom Engelhardt. New York: Basic Books, 1995; pp. iii + 351. $29.95; paper, $14.00. I'VE GOT THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM: THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM STRUGGLE. By Charles M. Payne. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995; pp. xiii + 525. $28.00; paper $16.95. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORATORS: A BIO-CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Edited by Richard W. Leeman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996; pp. xxv + 452. $95.00.