The Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream - Brossura

Bormann, Ernest G.

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ISBN 10: 0809323699 ISBN 13: 9780809323692

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809323699
• ISBN 13: 9780809323692
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 279
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile