The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream - Couverture souple

Bormann, Ernest G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0809323699 ISBN 13 : 9780809323692

Editeur : Southern Illinois University Press, 2000

Synopsis

In this book, first published in 1985, Ernest G. Bormann explores mass persuasion in America from 1620 to 1860, examining closely four rhetorical communities: the revivals of 1739-1740, the hot gospel of the postrevolutionary period, the evangelical revival and reform of the 1830s, and the Free Soil and Republican parties. Each community varies greatly, but Bormann asserts that each succeeding community shares a rhetorical vision of restoring the "American Dream" that is essentially a modification of the previous visions. Thus, they form a family of rhetorical visions that constitutes a rhetorical tradition of importance in nineteenth-century American popular culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ernest G. Bormann is a professor emeritus in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His many books include Effective Small Group Communication, The Process of Presentational Speaking, Communication Theory, and Forerunners of Black Power: The Rhetoric of Abolition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Southern Illinois University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0809323699
• ISBN 13: 9780809323692
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
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