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Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine Aug 2015

Analyzing How Rhetoric Is Epistemic: A Reply To Fuller, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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African American Rhetoric Of Greeting During Mckinley’S 1896 Front Porch Campaign, William Harpine Aug 2015

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 Aug 2015

Bryan’S ‘A Cross Of Gold’: The Rhetoric Of Polarization At The 1896 Democratic Convention, William Harpine

William D Harpine

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Genung’S Theory Of Persuasion: A Literary Theory Of Oratory Of Late Nineteenth-Century America, William Harpine Aug 2015

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.