Forthcoming Rhetoric Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Communicating Environmental Patriotism

   A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement

   By Anne Marie Todd

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country’s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of...

   To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Writing for the Web

   Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites

   By J.D. Applen

   Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics...

   To Be Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Rhetoric and Ecologies of Place

   Edited by Peter Goggin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...

   To Be Published June 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Power of Words

   Unveiling the Speaker and Writer's Hidden Craft

   By David S. Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Brian S. Butler, Jeff Collins

   In 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that "the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter." We recognize differences between a politician who is "willful" and one who is "willing"...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric

   4th Edition

   By James J. Murphy, Richard A. Katula, Michael Hoppmann

   Continuing its tradition of providing students with a thorough review of ancient Greek and Roman rhetorical theory and practices, A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric is the premier text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the history of rhetoric. Offering vivid examples of each...

   To Be Published July 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. The Mobile Story

   Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies

   Edited by Jason Farman

   What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new...

   To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Analyzing Digital Fiction

   Edited by Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin, Hans Rustad

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   Written for and read on a computer screen, digital fiction pursues its verbal, discursive and conceptual complexity through the digital medium. It is fiction whose structure, form and meaning are dictated by the digital context in which it is produced and requires analytical approaches that are...

   To Be Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

   The Transhuman Condition

   By Jeff Pruchnic

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric

   By Richard Andrews

   A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary rhetoric. This current view of rhetoric brings together themes in the communication arts, including political literary criticism; bi- and multi-lingualism; multimodality; framing as an artistic...

   To Be Published September 12th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media

    Edited by Sohui Lee, Russell G. Carpenter

    This collection of essays appears on the wave of digital media tutoring developments in university and college writing centers in the United States and around the world. It provides students and scholars of literacy, new media, and communication as well as writing center practitioners with a...

    To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge