Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville | U of A · Communication Studies

TRUTHS OF PERSUASION - KochinMichael S.: Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and Art (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. Pp. 184. $65.00.) - Volume 72 Issue 3 - Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

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Shearon Lowery and Melvin L. De Fleur, MILESTONES IN MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: MEDIA EFFECTS (New York: Longman, 1983—$24.97/$12.95).

Arguing that “the presidency” is not defined by the Constitution—which doesn’t use the term—but by what presidents say and how they say it, Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. In Presidents Creating the Presidency, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson expand and recast their...

Arguing that “the presidency” is not defined by the Constitution—which doesn’t use the term—but by what presidents say and how they say it, Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. In Presidents Creating the Presidency, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson expand and recast their...

Arguing that “the presidency” is not defined by the Constitution—which doesn’t use the term—but by what presidents say and how they say it, Deeds Done in Words has been the definitive book on presidential rhetoric for more than a decade. In Presidents Creating the Presidency, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell and Kathleen Hall Jamieson expand and rec...

In this essay, I propose that agency (1) is communal and participatory, hence, both constituted and constrained by externals that are material and symbolic; (2) is "invented" by authors who are points of articulation; (3) emerges in artistry or craft; (4) is effected through form; and (5) is perverse, that is, inherently protean, ambiguous, open to...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8.1 (2005) 147-149 Because it is convenient to have all presidential farewells in one volume, libraries may be tempted to purchase this book. That would be unfortunate. First, all of the messages in this volume can be found in the various editions of James D. Richardson's Messages and Papers of the Presidents and in the Pu...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 7.1 (2004) 105-107 This book exemplifies the potential of interdisciplinary work. It is a synthesis of archival research that adds to and corrects the history of women, an illustration of the ways in which reading historical documents as rhetorical works enriches our understanding of them, and a feminist analysis of the pr...

As a form of discursive practice, consciousness‐raising links recovery, recuperation, and the development of theory. The recovery of texts by women and recovery from the dynamics of suppression by which women's voices were silenced encompasses an enormous conversation among women through time. As a recuperative process criticism promotes an appreci...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5.3 (2002) 537-540 I begin with a disclaimer; I am the author of entries on "Feminist Rhetoric" and "Modern Rhetoric" that appear in this work. When I pointed this out, the book review editor rejoined that anyone who might write a review would be in a similar position. Indeed, this is a work created by an array of scholars...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4.1 (2001) 156-158 Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons. By Gil Troy. Lawrence, Kans., University Press of Kansas, 2000; pp xiv + 440. $17.95 paper. This is a paperback reprint of Affairs of State: The Rise and Rejection of the Presidential Couple (1997) expanded to incorporate additional material on th...

Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4.4 (2001) 743-745 Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies That Have Shaped the Nation from Washington to Clinton. Edited by J. F. Watts and Fred L. Israel. New York: Routledge, 2000; pp. v + 396. $75.00. No book could dramatize more clearly the differences between a rhetorical and a historical ap...

The rhetoric of women's liberation merits separate critical treatment because it is a unique genre of rhetoric. Its distinctive substantive characteristics arise from the peculiarly intense moral conflict it generates so that moderate and reformist options are closed to feminist advocates. Its distinctive stylistic features include emphasis on affe...

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell is Professor of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 1. USA Today, November 13, 1992. 2. Connie Brack, "Profile: Hillary the Pol," New Yorker 70, May 30, 1994, 8. 3. Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Hating Hillary," New Yorker 72, February 26 & March 4, 1996, 116. 4. Garry Wills, "A Tale of Two...

Gender identifies the social roles deemed appropriate for both sexes. Rhetorical genres are also social constructions, but given prohibitions against women speaking, historically, virtually all rhetorical action was gendered masculine. Accordingly, the earliest women speakers faced a double bind that not only spurred them to heights of inventional...

"The U.S. presidential inaugural as a genre, then, must reconstitute 'the people' as an audience that can witness the rite of investiture. The inaugural must rehearse communal values from the past, set forth the political principles that will guide the new administration, and demonstrate that the President can enact the presidential persona appropr...

Campbell and Jamieson begin with a short analysis of Barbara Jordon's 1976 Democratic convention key-note address as a key-note address. Key-notes are based on enactment. The article is meant to survey the history and form of genre criticism. "The rhetorical forms that establish genres are stylistic and substantive responses to perceived situationa...

Campbell argues that Nixon’s “Vietnamization” speech fails the ethical test because it does not meet the ethical standards of truthfulness, unity, credibility, and responsibility that he advocates in the beginning of the speech. Nixon misrepresents the audience and opposition by treating them as a homogenous group and framing their advocacy as alwa...

Campell discusses Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1892 farwell address to the National American Woman Sufferage Association. Stanton's form is lyric, but the prespective is tragic, a "stance common in literature but rare in rhetoric." "Tragedy typically isolates the individual from the community whareas comedy incorporates the protagonist into society." S...

On February 25, 1988, Roh Tae‐woo delivered an inaugural address as the newly elected president of the Republic of Korea. As the culmination of a difficult political campaign, it exemplifies campaign rhetoric that fuses deliberative and epideictic elements. As the first presidential inaugural following a peaceful transition of power in a nation wit...

Campbell's scathing, ad homenum retort to "Biesecker's attacks" questions Biesecker's logic and her motives. Campbell argues that Biesecker’s essay attacks her integrity, assumes that she supports the status quo (which Campbell says she does not since she alters the canon), and her argument that Campbell uses male privilege is a bad argument becaus...

"Deeds Done in Words is an impressive piece of work. It is the first attempt to identify and assess the principal genres of rhetoric, and to interpret the panoply of those genres in terms of the needs of, and the needs for, ritual in American politics."—Jeffrey Tulis, author of The Rhetorical Presidency "Deeds Done in Words is a thoughtful survey...

AFTER WINNING: THE LEGACY OF THE NEW JERSEY SUFFRAGISTS, 1920–1947. By Felice D. Gordon. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986; pp. 262. $30.00.FEMINISM UNMODIFIED: DISCOURSES ON LIFE AND LAW. By Catharine A. MacKinnon. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987; pp. 315. $25.00; paper $9.95.LETTERS ON THE EQUALITY OF THE SEXES AND O...

MASS MEDIA AND AMERICAN POLITICS by Doris A. Graber (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1988—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0-87187-475-X) THE INTERPLAY OF INFLUENCE: MASS MEDIA AND THEIR PUBLICS IN NEWS, ADVERTISING, POLITICS by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1988—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-534-082...

Campell selects her texts based on three principles: "first, I focused on the central women's movement... Second, I focused on women who were nationally known... Third... Those who left an extensive rhetorical record" Feminine style: Campell argues that in the process of craft-learning, a discourse is produced with particular characteristics: perso...

Analysis of selected speeches by feminists active in early Afro‐American protest reveals significant similarities and differences in their rhetoric and that of white feminists of the period. Sojourner Truth's speeches are similar in style and content; Ida B. Well's addresses differ in style, but her analysis of race and sex recurs in the rhetoric o...

Addresses problems of sex bias in communication studies, specifically in teaching public speaking and rhetoric. Briefly surveys major anthologies of speeches published from 1896-1981, noting that only 52 speeches (or speech excerpts) by women appear in 45 volumes. (PD)

This essay treats the rhetorical movement called feminism. It argues that the two feminist social movements, one from 1848 and the other from 1963, are one rhetorical movement. Feminism as a rhetorical movement is typified by an ideological conflict between the concepts of “womanhood” and “personhood” and by the rhetorical strategies summed up by t...

Historians and critics have recognized the existence of pieces of rhetoric that blend the elements of different genres into compatible wholes. This essay examines the hybrid genre created by ascendant vice presidents in response to the deaths of presidents.

Stanton's “The Solitude of Self” is analyzed as a philosophical statement of the principles underlying the nineteenth century struggle for woman's rights in the United States. Its rhetorical power remains undiminished because of its lyric structure and tone and its tragic, existential rationale for feminism.

Criticism is a systematic activity whose structure is defined by and derived from the qualities of the communicative and rhetorical acts which are the objects it examines as well as its medium of expression. To understand the nature of the activity, one must examine it from the perspective of its reflexive, cognitive, dialectical, and evaluative di...

Rhetorical criticism performs two relatively distinct functions. Social criticism evaluates the means used and the ends advocated in contemporary rhetoric in order to raise issues and encourage public discussion. As such, it is ephemeral—linked to particular issues, times, and circumstances. “Academic” criticism attempts to discover and explicate t...

INDEX TO 35MM EDUCATIONAL FILM‐STRIPS. By the National Information Center for Educational Media, University of Southern California. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970; pp. vii+872. $34.00. INDEX TO 16MM EDUCATIONAL FILMS. By the National Information Center for Educational Media, University of Southern California. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1...

The purpose of this book is to define characteristics of rhetorical discourse, explain man's capacity to influence and be influenced, and describe the purposes and processes of rhetorical criticism. Representative speech texts, with critiques, are included on the following contemporary topics: withdrawal from Vietnam (Richard M. Nixon); militarizat...

The rhetoric of Black nationalism is used as a case study to illustrate problems involved in the criticism of contemporary protest rhetoric. The conclusions resulting from the application of traditional theory are contrasted with those developed from Burkeian dramatism in order to outline an alternative perspective toward this rhetoric and in order...

THE RHETORICAL ACT: THINKING, SPEAKING AND WRITING CRITICALLY, Fourth Edition, teaches you how to craft and critique rhetorical messages that influence, inviting and enabling you to become an articulate rhetor and critic of the symbolic universe. The text combines thorough coverage of rhetorical criticism, media literacy, and strategic public speak...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1968. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-326). Photocopy of typescript.