Welcome to the Rhetoric Society of America Virtual Exhibit
We are sorry not to meet you this year at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Portland. However, we would still like to introduce you to some of our new titles, many of which are available in print via print on demand and as e-books. Please browse and follow the links to shop!
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Acquisitions Editor acquires in the areas of American studies, and rhetoric and communication studies. His book series include American Music History Book Series, Humor in America, Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, and RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
Out of concern for the health, safety, and well-being of our staff, and in response to a statewide order closing all non-life-sustaining businesses, PSU Press has suspended warehouse operations until further notice and will not be shipping physical books during this time. (For more information on PSU Press's response to COVID-19, click here.)
New books
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Democracy as Fetish
Ralph Cintron
The Enthymeme
Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric
James Fredal
Metanoia
Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self
Adam Ellwanger, and Foreword by Pat J. Gehrke
Embodiment, Relation, Community
A Continental Philosophy of Communication
Garnet C. Butchart
Ableist Rhetoric
How We Know, Value, and See Disability
James L. Cherney
Dewey for a New Age of Fascism
Teaching Democratic Habits
Nathan Crick
Practicing Citizenship
Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Kristy Maddux
After Gun Violence
Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock
Craig Rood
Robert Burton’s Rhetoric
An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
Susan Wells
Essential backlist
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Reimagining Advocacy
Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic
Elizabeth C. Britt
Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism
Technological and Rhetorical Paradox
Ian E. J. Hill
Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t
How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It)
Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han
From Hysteria to Hormones
A Rhetorical History
Amy Koerber
Homeless Advocacy and the Rhetorical Construction of the Civic Home
Melanie Loehwing
The Discourse of Propaganda
Case Studies from the Persian Gulf War and the War on Terror
John Oddo
A Feeling of Wrongness
Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture
Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman
Thinking Together
Lecturing, Learning, and Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Angela G. Ray and Paul Stob
How to Belong
Women’s Agency in a Transnational World
Belinda A. Stillion Southard
Graphic Reproduction
A Comics Anthology
Edited by Jenell Johnson, Afterword by Susan Merrill Squier
Being at Genetic Risk
Toward a Rhetoric of Care
Kelly Pender
Speech and Debate as Civic Education
Edited by J. Michael Hogan, Jessica A. Kurr, Michael J. Bergmaier, and Jeremy D. Johnson
Rhetoric’s Pragmatism
Essays in Rhetorical Hermeneutics
Steven Mailloux
Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman
Edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins
Memories of Lincoln and the Splintering of American Political Thought
Shawn J. Parry-Giles and David S. Kaufer
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
M. Elizabeth Weiser
Taking Turns
Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
MK Czerwiec
Infertility
Tracing the History of a Transformative Term
Robin E. Jensen
Text + Field
Innovations in Rhetorical Method
Edited by Sara L. McKinnon, Robert Asen, Karma R. Chávez, and Robert Glenn Howard
Sign of Pathology
U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s
Nathan Stormer
Voting Deliberatively
FDR and the 1936 Presidential Campaign
Mary E. Stuckey
Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America
Dave Tell
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier, Michael J. Green, Kimberly R. Myers, and Scott T. Smith
Listening, Thinking, Being
Toward an Ethics of Attunement
Lisbeth Lipari
From Apartheid to Democracy
Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Katherine Elizabeth Mack
The Australian Citizens’ Parliament and the Future of Deliberative Democracy
Edited by Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron Lubensky
Deliberative Acts
Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
Arabella Lyon
Constitutive Visions
Indigeneity and Commonplaces of National Identity in Republican Ecuador
Christa J. Olson
Speaking Hatefully
Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary
David Boromisza-Habashi
Letters to Power
Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals
Samuel McCormick
The Evolving Citizen
American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement
Jay P. Childers
Spiritual Modalities
Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance
William FitzGerald
Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation
Edited by Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen
John Dewey and the Artful Life
Pragmatism, Aesthetics, and Morality
Scott R. Stroud
Public Forgetting
The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again
Bradford Vivian
Challenges of Ordinary Democracy
A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
Karen Tracy
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