Rhetoric in postmodern America : conversations with Michael Calvin McGee /
Rhetoric in postmodern America : conversations with Michael Calvin McGee /
edited by Carol Corbin.
- ix, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
- Revisioning rhetoric .
- Revisioning rhetoric. .
Includes Fragments of winter : racial discontents in America, 1992, by Michael Calvin McGee.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index.
Introduction -- McGee Unplugged -- The Conversations -- Formal Discursive Theories -- The Postmodern Condition -- American Liberalism -- The People -- Materialism -- A Previously Unpublished Work -- Fragments of Winter: Racial Discontents in America, 1992 -- Bibliography of Michael Calvin McGee's Work -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. Pt. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 3. 7.
"The first book-length presentation of the influential work of Michael Calvin McGee, this volume demonstrates the importance of rhetoric to understanding power and culture in the postmodern age. The book is largely based on a series of seminars in which McGee draws on important figures spanning the history of rhetorical thought--from Plato and Aristotle to Marx, McLuhan, Althusser, and Baudrillard--to develop his ideas about orality and performance, the public, technology, and processes of political change. An introduction byJohn Louis Lucaites discusses McGee's pathbreaking role within the wider field of rhetoric,and a concluding essay on Spike Lee enacts the "performative criticism" McGee theorizes in previous chapters to contruct a powerful argument about race in contemporary America."--Publisher description.
157230278X 9781572302785
97033135
Public speaking
PN4121 / .R438 1998
808.51
Includes Fragments of winter : racial discontents in America, 1992, by Michael Calvin McGee.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-188) and index.
Introduction -- McGee Unplugged -- The Conversations -- Formal Discursive Theories -- The Postmodern Condition -- American Liberalism -- The People -- Materialism -- A Previously Unpublished Work -- Fragments of Winter: Racial Discontents in America, 1992 -- Bibliography of Michael Calvin McGee's Work -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. Pt. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 3. 7.
"The first book-length presentation of the influential work of Michael Calvin McGee, this volume demonstrates the importance of rhetoric to understanding power and culture in the postmodern age. The book is largely based on a series of seminars in which McGee draws on important figures spanning the history of rhetorical thought--from Plato and Aristotle to Marx, McLuhan, Althusser, and Baudrillard--to develop his ideas about orality and performance, the public, technology, and processes of political change. An introduction byJohn Louis Lucaites discusses McGee's pathbreaking role within the wider field of rhetoric,and a concluding essay on Spike Lee enacts the "performative criticism" McGee theorizes in previous chapters to contruct a powerful argument about race in contemporary America."--Publisher description.
157230278X 9781572302785
97033135
Public speaking
PN4121 / .R438 1998
808.51