Martin J Medhurst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 390931 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin J Medhurst |
| NOMBRES | Martin J |
| APELLIDO | Medhurst |
| FIRMA | MEDHURST M J |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Robert L. Scott
Research Article| December 01 2019 Robert L. Scott: Memories of a Great Man Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2019) 22 (4): 673–679. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.22.4.0673 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo…
Collier, Kenneth. Speechwriting in the Institutionalized Presidency
More Than a Doctrine
More Than a Doctrine
LBJ, Reagan, and the American Dream
This article advances the thesis that the narrative of the American Dream, as used in U.S. presidential discourse, is best understood as a rhetoric of competing visions over the nature and purposes of liberty. To test this position, the rhetoric of Lyndon Johnson—an advocate of positive liberty—is compared and contrasted to that of Ronald Reagan—an advocate of negative liberty. Competing visions of liberty are found to structure the contours of t…
The Man for All Seasons
Research Article| September 01 2015 The Man for All Seasons: Bruce Gronbeck Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication and Professor of Political Science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 547–566. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Political Tone
Looking Back on Our Scholarship
This short essay surveys the breadth of scholarship published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech since its beginnings in 1915. I argue that many of the areas once regularly published in QJS have slowly—and rightly—migrated to other journals or other fields entirely. However, there are four areas that have only recently disappeared from the pages of QJS, and these areas—translations of key texts, studies in textual authenticity, rhetorical history…
The Problem with Presidential Databases
This article raises questions about the database of major presidential speeches proposed by Kevin Coe and Rico Neumann. Specifically, I argue that the rationale for the database is weak, the underlying philosophical problems are substantial, and the methodological flaws are serious, including a failure to follow their own criteria in the compilation of the database
George W. Bush at Goree Island
On July 8, 2003, at Goree Island, Senegal, George W. Bush delivered the most important speech on American slavery since Abraham Lincoln. As an example of rhetorical artistry, the speech is a masterpiece, putting the brutality of slavery into historical, political, and theological perspective. Although the speech had deliberative effects—it grew out of, and contributed to, the Millennium Challenge as well as the administration's African AIDS initi…
The Truth Is Our Weapon
Journal Article The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles Get access The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. By Tudda Chris. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8071-3140-7.) Martin Medhurst Martin Medhurst Baylor UniversityWaco, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Critical Reflections on the Cold War
Journal Article Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. Ed. by Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. ix, 281 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-943-4.) Get access Melvin Small Melvin Small Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Page 290, https://d…
Critical Reflections on the Cold War
Rhetoric and history intersected dramatically during the Cold War, which was, above all else, a war of words. This volume, which combines the work of historians and communication scholars, examines the public discourse in Cold War America from a number of perspectives including how rhetoric shaped history and policies and how rhetorical images invited interpretations of history. The book opens with Norman Graebner's wideranging analysis of the rh…
Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign
This article examines the textual context of Eisenhower's famous “I Shall Go to Korea” speech, delivered during the closing days of the 1952 presidential campaign. Four interlocking contexts of discourse are identified–the discourses of cold war, foreign policy, Korea, and the Eisenhower persona. By rhetorically activating each of these contexts, Eisenhower invited his listeners to understand his speech not merely as a campaign pledge but as a rh…
Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign
This article examines the textual context of Eisenhower's famous “I Shall Go to Korea” speech, delivered during the closing days of the 1952 presidential campaign. Four interlocking contexts of discourse are identified–the discourses of cold war, foreign policy, Korea, and the Eisenhower persona. By rhetorically activating each of these contexts, Eisenhower invited his listeners to understand his speech not merely as a campaign pledge but as a rh…
Atoms for Peace and Nuclear Hegemony
Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, far from being idealistic, propaganda for the sake of propaganda, or an inconsistent and contradictory part of arms control policy, was, instead, a carefully designed-and highly successful-component of the basic defense and foreign policy stance of the Eisenhower administration. As part of a coordinated campaign to achieve national security goals, Atoms for Peace can be seen as the rhetorical counterpa…
Robert L. Scott plays Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Reconceptualizing rhetorical history
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address is an artistically structured piece of strategic discourse. The subject of the speech is balance, a subject underscored and illustrated by the balances found in the text itself. Far from being a prophetic vision of the future, Eisenhower's speech is grounded intertextually in his oratorical past and strategically in the political present. His memorable phrase about the military‐industrial complex is thus re…
The rhetorical structure of Oliver stone's JFK
Oliver Stone's JFK is a mythopoetic discourse that functions as cinematic rhetoric. Through the lens of the Adamic Myth, the author examines the film as a metaphoric interpretation or parable of the human condition. Members of the viewing audience are invited to participate in this mythic structure by emulating the actions of the protagonist, thus becoming instruments of sociopolitical change
Rhetorical dimensions in biblical criticism
Books reviewed THE BIBLE AS RHETORIC: STUDIES IN BIBLICAL PERSUASION AND CREDIBILITY. Edited by Martin Warner. London and New York: Routledge, 1990; pp. v + 236. $15.95. THE GREAT CODE: THE BIBLE AND LITERATURE. By Northrop Frye. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; pp. vii + 261. $8.95. GREEK RHETORICAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH; AN INQUIRY. By James L. Kinneavy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; pp. vii + 186. $32.00. INVENTION, A…
Truman's rhetorical reticence, 1945–1947
Harry S. Truman's speaking on the subject of Soviet‐American relations from the inception of his presidency on April 12, 1945 until the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine on March 12, 1947, failed at one of the central tasks of the rhetorical presidency: atmospheric definition and regulation. To understand the reasons for this failure, one must explore both the philosophical and psychological factors underlying Truman's reticence to speak out on …
Eisenhower's ‘atoms for peace’ speech
This article examines the speech “Atoms for Peace,”; delivered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953. The author demonstrates how a complex rhetorical situation resulted in the crafting and exploitation of a public policy address. Far from serving as a precursor to nuclear disarmament, the speech functioned to bolster the international image of the United States as a peacemaker, to war…
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
This essay is an iconographic study of Alain Resnais’ classic film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour. The author argues that the meaning of the film can best be discerned by understanding the language and logic of cinematic form as that form becomes manifest through the introduction and development of specific iconic motifs. It is further argued that any construction of an overall meaning or interpretation must necessarily go beyond the confines of iconograp…
From Duche to Provoost
Journal Article From Duché to Provoost: The Birth of Inaugural Prayer Get access Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Assistant Professor of Rhetoric University of California, Davis, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 24, Issue 3, Autumn 1982, Pages 573–588, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/24.3.573 Published: 01 October 1982
Political cartoons as rhetorical form
This essay is a taxonomic study of the available means of graphic persuasion as manifested in the art of political cartooning. The authors argue that the neo‐classical canons of rhetoric, slightly modified, provide an adequate superstructure for the production and criticism of graphic discourse. It is further argued that the specific techniques which grow out of the application of the canons reveal significant differences between the means of per…
Political Cartoons and American Culture
Eisenhower's ‘atoms for peace’ speech
This article examines the speech “Atoms for Peace,”; delivered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953. The author demonstrates how a complex rhetorical situation resulted in the crafting and exploitation of a public policy address. Far from serving as a precursor to nuclear disarmament, the speech functioned to bolster the international image of the United States as a peacemaker, to war…
Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign
This article examines the textual context of Eisenhower's famous “I Shall Go to Korea” speech, delivered during the closing days of the 1952 presidential campaign. Four interlocking contexts of discourse are identified–the discourses of cold war, foreign policy, Korea, and the Eisenhower persona. By rhetorically activating each of these contexts, Eisenhower invited his listeners to understand his speech not merely as a campaign pledge but as a rh…
LBJ, Reagan, and the American Dream
This article advances the thesis that the narrative of the American Dream, as used in U.S. presidential discourse, is best understood as a rhetoric of competing visions over the nature and purposes of liberty. To test this position, the rhetoric of Lyndon Johnson—an advocate of positive liberty—is compared and contrasted to that of Ronald Reagan—an advocate of negative liberty. Competing visions of liberty are found to structure the contours of t…
The City
This article is a case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, The City. The critical and aesthetic principles of Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolph Arnheim demonstrate how rhythm functions formally and rhetorically to create cinematic knowledge
Atoms for Peace and Nuclear Hegemony
Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, far from being idealistic, propaganda for the sake of propaganda, or an inconsistent and contradictory part of arms control policy, was, instead, a carefully designed-and highly successful-component of the basic defense and foreign policy stance of the Eisenhower administration. As part of a coordinated campaign to achieve national security goals, Atoms for Peace can be seen as the rhetorical counterpa…
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
This essay is an iconographic study of Alain Resnais’ classic film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour. The author argues that the meaning of the film can best be discerned by understanding the language and logic of cinematic form as that form becomes manifest through the introduction and development of specific iconic motifs. It is further argued that any construction of an overall meaning or interpretation must necessarily go beyond the confines of iconograp…
Rhetorical dimensions in biblical criticism
Books reviewed THE BIBLE AS RHETORIC: STUDIES IN BIBLICAL PERSUASION AND CREDIBILITY. Edited by Martin Warner. London and New York: Routledge, 1990; pp. v + 236. $15.95. THE GREAT CODE: THE BIBLE AND LITERATURE. By Northrop Frye. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; pp. vii + 261. $8.95. GREEK RHETORICAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH; AN INQUIRY. By James L. Kinneavy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; pp. vii + 186. $32.00. INVENTION, A…
The Truth Is Our Weapon
Journal Article The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles Get access The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. By Tudda Chris. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8071-3140-7.) Martin Medhurst Martin Medhurst Baylor UniversityWaco, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
Political cartoons as rhetorical form
This essay is a taxonomic study of the available means of graphic persuasion as manifested in the art of political cartooning. The authors argue that the neo‐classical canons of rhetoric, slightly modified, provide an adequate superstructure for the production and criticism of graphic discourse. It is further argued that the specific techniques which grow out of the application of the canons reveal significant differences between the means of per…
The City
This article is a case study of Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke's classic documentary, The City. The critical and aesthetic principles of Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolph Arnheim demonstrate how rhythm functions formally and rhetorically to create cinematic knowledge
Hiroshima, Mon Amour
This essay is an iconographic study of Alain Resnais’ classic film, Hiroshima, Mon Amour. The author argues that the meaning of the film can best be discerned by understanding the language and logic of cinematic form as that form becomes manifest through the introduction and development of specific iconic motifs. It is further argued that any construction of an overall meaning or interpretation must necessarily go beyond the confines of iconograp…
From Duche to Provoost
Journal Article From Duché to Provoost: The Birth of Inaugural Prayer Get access Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Assistant Professor of Rhetoric University of California, Davis, Davis, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 24, Issue 3, Autumn 1982, Pages 573–588, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/24.3.573 Published: 01 October 1982
Political Cartoons and American Culture
Eisenhower's ‘atoms for peace’ speech
This article examines the speech “Atoms for Peace,”; delivered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 8, 1953. The author demonstrates how a complex rhetorical situation resulted in the crafting and exploitation of a public policy address. Far from serving as a precursor to nuclear disarmament, the speech functioned to bolster the international image of the United States as a peacemaker, to war…
Truman's rhetorical reticence, 1945–1947
Harry S. Truman's speaking on the subject of Soviet‐American relations from the inception of his presidency on April 12, 1945 until the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine on March 12, 1947, failed at one of the central tasks of the rhetorical presidency: atmospheric definition and regulation. To understand the reasons for this failure, one must explore both the philosophical and psychological factors underlying Truman's reticence to speak out on …
Rhetorical dimensions in biblical criticism
Books reviewed THE BIBLE AS RHETORIC: STUDIES IN BIBLICAL PERSUASION AND CREDIBILITY. Edited by Martin Warner. London and New York: Routledge, 1990; pp. v + 236. $15.95. THE GREAT CODE: THE BIBLE AND LITERATURE. By Northrop Frye. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981; pp. vii + 261. $8.95. GREEK RHETORICAL ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH; AN INQUIRY. By James L. Kinneavy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; pp. vii + 186. $32.00. INVENTION, A…
The rhetorical structure of Oliver stone's JFK
Oliver Stone's JFK is a mythopoetic discourse that functions as cinematic rhetoric. Through the lens of the Adamic Myth, the author examines the film as a metaphoric interpretation or parable of the human condition. Members of the viewing audience are invited to participate in this mythic structure by emulating the actions of the protagonist, thus becoming instruments of sociopolitical change
United States
Reconceptualizing rhetorical history
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address is an artistically structured piece of strategic discourse. The subject of the speech is balance, a subject underscored and illustrated by the balances found in the text itself. Far from being a prophetic vision of the future, Eisenhower's speech is grounded intertextually in his oratorical past and strategically in the political present. His memorable phrase about the military‐industrial complex is thus re…
Robert L. Scott plays Dwight D. Eisenhower
Atoms for Peace and Nuclear Hegemony
Dwight Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, far from being idealistic, propaganda for the sake of propaganda, or an inconsistent and contradictory part of arms control policy, was, instead, a carefully designed-and highly successful-component of the basic defense and foreign policy stance of the Eisenhower administration. As part of a coordinated campaign to achieve national security goals, Atoms for Peace can be seen as the rhetorical counterpa…
Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign
This article examines the textual context of Eisenhower's famous “I Shall Go to Korea” speech, delivered during the closing days of the 1952 presidential campaign. Four interlocking contexts of discourse are identified–the discourses of cold war, foreign policy, Korea, and the Eisenhower persona. By rhetorically activating each of these contexts, Eisenhower invited his listeners to understand his speech not merely as a campaign pledge but as a rh…
Text and Context in the 1952 Presidential Campaign
This article examines the textual context of Eisenhower's famous “I Shall Go to Korea” speech, delivered during the closing days of the 1952 presidential campaign. Four interlocking contexts of discourse are identified–the discourses of cold war, foreign policy, Korea, and the Eisenhower persona. By rhetorically activating each of these contexts, Eisenhower invited his listeners to understand his speech not merely as a campaign pledge but as a rh…
Critical Reflections on the Cold War
Rhetoric and history intersected dramatically during the Cold War, which was, above all else, a war of words. This volume, which combines the work of historians and communication scholars, examines the public discourse in Cold War America from a number of perspectives including how rhetoric shaped history and policies and how rhetorical images invited interpretations of history. The book opens with Norman Graebner's wideranging analysis of the rh…
Critical Reflections on the Cold War
Journal Article Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History. Ed. by Martin J. Medhurst and H. W. Brands. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. ix, 281 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-89096-943-4.) Get access Melvin Small Melvin Small Wayne State UniversityDetroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 89, Issue 1, June 2002, Page 290, https://d…
The Truth Is Our Weapon
Journal Article The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles Get access The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. By Tudda Chris. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xii, 224 pp. $39.95, isbn0-8071-3140-7.) Martin Medhurst Martin Medhurst Baylor UniversityWaco, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academi…
George W. Bush at Goree Island
On July 8, 2003, at Goree Island, Senegal, George W. Bush delivered the most important speech on American slavery since Abraham Lincoln. As an example of rhetorical artistry, the speech is a masterpiece, putting the brutality of slavery into historical, political, and theological perspective. Although the speech had deliberative effects—it grew out of, and contributed to, the Millennium Challenge as well as the administration's African AIDS initi…
The Problem with Presidential Databases
This article raises questions about the database of major presidential speeches proposed by Kevin Coe and Rico Neumann. Specifically, I argue that the rationale for the database is weak, the underlying philosophical problems are substantial, and the methodological flaws are serious, including a failure to follow their own criteria in the compilation of the database
The Man for All Seasons
Research Article| September 01 2015 The Man for All Seasons: Bruce Gronbeck Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst Martin J. Medhurst is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric and Communication and Professor of Political Science at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (3): 547–566. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.3.0547 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sha…
Political Tone
Looking Back on Our Scholarship
This short essay surveys the breadth of scholarship published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech since its beginnings in 1915. I argue that many of the areas once regularly published in QJS have slowly—and rightly—migrated to other journals or other fields entirely. However, there are four areas that have only recently disappeared from the pages of QJS, and these areas—translations of key texts, studies in textual authenticity, rhetorical history…
LBJ, Reagan, and the American Dream
This article advances the thesis that the narrative of the American Dream, as used in U.S. presidential discourse, is best understood as a rhetoric of competing visions over the nature and purposes of liberty. To test this position, the rhetoric of Lyndon Johnson—an advocate of positive liberty—is compared and contrasted to that of Ronald Reagan—an advocate of negative liberty. Competing visions of liberty are found to structure the contours of t…
More Than a Doctrine
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