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  • Political Problems and Personalities in Contemporary Maryland

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Political Problems and Personalities in Contemporary Maryland provides a comprehensive rhetorical analysis of contemporary politics and political communication in Maryland at both the state and local levels. Theodore F. Sheckels and Carl Hyden approach rhetoric in a broader sense, arguing that actions by political players – including decisions on housing policy, urban redevelopment policy, and ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Communication Centers

    A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management

    Communication Centers: A Theory-Based Guide to Training and Management offers advice based on extant research and best practices to both faculty who are asked to develop a communication center and for directors of established centers. Broken into easily understood parts, Turner and Sheckels begin with the development of communication centers, offering guidance on the history of centers, how to ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948-2016 establishes the rhetorical goals of the thirty-six political party conventions that have taken place since 1948 against the backdrop of the fundamental changes that television brought to the conventions. Theodore F. Sheckels analyzes these conventions to determine whether the gatherings met or failed to meet those goals, including ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • The Political in Margaret Atwood's Fiction

    The Writing on the Wall of the Tent

    Suggesting that politics and power are at the center of Margaret Atwood's fiction, Theodore F. Sheckels examines Atwood's novels from The Edible Woman to The Year of the Flood. Whether her treatment is explicit as in Bodily Harm and The Handmaid's Tale or by means of an exploration of interiority as in Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, Atwood's persistent concern is with how the empowered act ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Political Communication in the Anglophone World

    Case Studies

    Political Communication in the Anglophone World: Case Studies, by Theodore F. Sheckels, extends political communication scholarship—primarily rhetorical scholarship—into the extensive English language arena outside the United States and the United Kingdom. While wrestling with the extent to which insights derived from and approaches used in political communication research focused on the United ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Maryland Politics and Political Communication, 1950-2005

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    Maryland Politics and Political Communication, 1950-2005 is not a survey of all that occurred between 1950 and 2005. Rather, this book focuses on a set of interesting political events in which communication is a very important variable. These events, be they elections or episodes of governance, are also-arguably-the most dramatic ones during the period. It begins with an examination of George ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • A Companion to Australian Aboriginal Literature

    Australian Aboriginal literature, once relegated to the margins of Australian literary studies, now receives both national and international attention. Not only has the number of published texts by contemporary Australian Aboriginals risen sharply, but scholars and publishers have also recently begun recovering earlier published and unpublished Indigenous works. Writing by Australian Aboriginals ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Public Places

    Sites of Political Communication

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    This book rhetorically and historically examines the contextual and experiential dimensions of a wide range of public places—from memorials to stadiums—that are rife with political implications. Fourteen public places ranging from the national to local, from 9/11 memorials to a baseball park are analyzed. The authors investigate the histories of these public spaces, examine their designs, and ... Read more

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  • The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton

    This scholarly exploration of Hamilton encourages audiences to interpret this popular culture force in a new way by revealing that the musical confronts conventional perceptions of American history, racial equity, and political power. Contributors explore the ways in which the musical offers social commentary on issues such as immigration and gender equity, as well as how Hamilton re-considers the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Gender and the American Presidency

    Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders. This analysis profiles key presidential contenders including Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

    Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
    Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation’s history is more complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some parts of history, while not formally recognized within a commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely contained within a ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

  • Richard Flanagan

    Critical Essays

    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied essays offer new ways of understanding Flanagan's contribution to Tasmanian, Australian and world literature.Flanagan's fictional worlds offer empathetic, often poignant, renderings of ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD