Text + Field
Innovations in Rhetorical Method
Robert Asen editor Sara L McKinnon editor Karma R Chávez editor Robert Glenn Howard editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pennsylvania State University Press
Published:15th Jun '16
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Rhetorical critics have long had a troubled relationship with method, viewing it as at times opening up provocative avenues of inquiry, and at other times as closing off paths toward meaningful engagement with texts. Text + Field shifts scholarly attention from this conflicted history, looking instead to the growing number of scholars who are supplementing text-based scholarship by venturing out into the field, where rhetoric is produced, enacted, and consumed.
These field-based practices involve observation, ethnographic interviews, and performance. They are not intended to displace text-based approaches; rather, they expand the idea of method by helping rhetorical scholars arrive at new and complementary answers to long-standing disciplinary questions about text, context, audience, judgment, and ethics.
The first volume in rhetoric and communication to directly address the relevance, processes, and implications of using field methods to augment traditional scholarship, Text + Field provides a framework for adapting these new tools to traditional rhetorical inquiry.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Roberta Chevrette, Kathleen M. de Onís, Danielle Endres, Joshua P. Ewalt, Alina Haliliuc, Aaron Hess, Jamie Landau, Michael Middleton, Tiara R. Na’puti, Jessy J. Ohl, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Damien Smith Pfister, Samantha Senda-Cook, Lisa Silvestri, and Valerie Thatcher.
“Text + Field productively emphasizes the praxis of methodology, augmenting and amplifying the innovative possibilities available to students and scholars researching the rhetoric of everyday life. The collection advocates methods that are ethically responsive as well as intellectually insightful, looking to embodied approaches such as interviewing, critical ethnography, participant-observation, and personal narrative.”
—Jeffrey Bennett,Vanderbilt University
“This exceptional editorial collective, themselves ethnographic rhetorical critics, here assemble gifted critical travelers who venture from Omaha to Guåhan to challenge and entice us to reconsider method, context, textuality, embodiment, judgment, and ethics by means of innovative movement in rhetorical research. This volume will inspire all those who dream of new critical destinations.”
—Charles E. Morris III,coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
“Reinforces an interdisciplinary, synergistic approach to the field that allows critical ethnographic research and gives greater attention to bodies, nonhuman elements, and everyday technologies to deeply inform rhetorical theory. This book is an essential read for courses in ethnography as well as a useful supplemental text for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in rhetoric.”
—K. L. Majocha Choice
“It should be required reading for all of us working at the nexus of politics, rhetoric, and ethics.”
—Heather Ashley Hayes Rhetoric & Public Affairs
ISBN: 9780271072104
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
Weight: 340g
240 pages