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Is Modernism Really Modern? Uncovering A Fallacy In Postmodernism, William Harpine
Is Modernism Really Modern? Uncovering A Fallacy In Postmodernism, William Harpine
William D Harpine
Some postmodernists criticize the view that the logics of Western thought can be employed universally. In doing so, they assume without adequate proof that different human societies have greatly different rationalities and employ completely different logics. This essay argues that, on the contrary, widely different cultures often share noteworthy similarities in rationality.
Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine
Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine
William D Harpine
No abstract provided.
African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William Harpine
African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William Harpine
William D Harpine
African American speakers who participated in William McKinley’s 1896 Front Porch campaign events used epideictic rhetoric to address the issues of racial equality. They praised McKinley, but presented few arguments on policy matters. This rhetorical strategy helped them to advocate policies in a manner that would superficially appear to be ceremonial more than deliberative. Paradoxically, in doing so, the speakers advocated their views to ameliorate the injustices of the Jim Crow era, while adapting to the campaign’s rituals.
Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William Harpine
Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William Harpine
William D Harpine
No abstract provided.
Playing To The Press In Mckinley’S Front Porch Campaign: The Early Weeks Of A Nineteenth-Century Pseudo-Event, William Harpine
Playing To The Press In Mckinley’S Front Porch Campaign: The Early Weeks Of A Nineteenth-Century Pseudo-Event, William Harpine
William D Harpine
No abstract provided.
Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William Harpine
Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William Harpine
William D Harpine
John Genung’s late nineteenth century rhetoric textbooks, although founded on an eighteenth century model of Scottish composition, present an original conception of oratory. Genung’s theory breaks free of the classical models and lays out the path to be followed during the development of speech studies among American rhetoricians of the early twentieth century.