James Jasinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596054 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Jasinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Jasinski |
| SIGNATURE | JASINSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Constituting Antebellum African American Identity
In August 1843 Presbyterian minister Henry Highland Garnet delivered his “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY. While often read (and almost as often dismissed) as either an unqualified call for a violent slave rebellion or, at the least, a celebration of prior acts of militant resistance which suggested that such methods deserved further consideration than they were …
History-Making and the Skills of World-Disclosing
Authorizing the Past
Journal Article Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England. By Stephen Carl Arch. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. xiv, 232 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87580-188-9.) Get access James Jasinski James Jasinski University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1371–1372, http…
The forms and limits of prudence in Henry Clay's (1850) defense of the compromise measures
In this essay, Henry Clay's rhetorical performance during the 1850 compromise debate is read as an exercise in prudential action. The intent is to offer a grounded critical reading of the discursive instantiation of prudence. The essay argues that Clay both employs a particular idiom and enacts a particular form of prudential conduct: prudential accommodation. The rhetorical forms and practical limits of this prudential idiom are explored. This e…
Beyond the Culture Wars
Dennis K. Davis, James Jasinski; Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Research on Communication and Culture, Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3
(Re)Constituting community through narrative argument
This essay analyzes the way a specific narrative text—Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 feature film The Big Chill—confronts the relationship between communal norms and political possibilities. By inviting the audience to engage in a constant process of character and community identification and contrast, the film enacts a complex disjunctive narrative argument endorsing a specific form of communal affiliation (what Hannah Arendt refers to as philia) and re…
The feminization of liberty, domesticated virtue, and the reconstitution of power and authority in early American political discourse
In 1980, Michael McGee suggested that power is “feminized” to produce liberty. This study rearranges the terms of McGee's equation in order to describe and analyze the shifting terrain of early American political discourse. The essay seeks to reconstruct the metaphorical and discursive processes that led from the feminization of liberty to a political culture organized by the practices of “virtuous power.”
Rhetoric and judgment in the constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788
The relationship between the practice of public rhetoric and the nature of political judgment is complex. The essay analyzes a pivotal constitutive controversy, the public Constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788, and uncovers conflicting objects and standards of judgment. The essay demonstrates that Federalists advocated a “formal” and “spectator?oriented” model of judgment while Anti?Federalists depicted a “substantive” and “actor?orient…
Perspectives on public communication
The forms and limits of prudence in Henry Clay's (1850) defense of the compromise measures
In this essay, Henry Clay's rhetorical performance during the 1850 compromise debate is read as an exercise in prudential action. The intent is to offer a grounded critical reading of the discursive instantiation of prudence. The essay argues that Clay both employs a particular idiom and enacts a particular form of prudential conduct: prudential accommodation. The rhetorical forms and practical limits of this prudential idiom are explored. This e…
Rhetoric and judgment in the constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788
The relationship between the practice of public rhetoric and the nature of political judgment is complex. The essay analyzes a pivotal constitutive controversy, the public Constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788, and uncovers conflicting objects and standards of judgment. The essay demonstrates that Federalists advocated a “formal” and “spectator?oriented” model of judgment while Anti?Federalists depicted a “substantive” and “actor?orient…
Constituting Antebellum African American Identity
In August 1843 Presbyterian minister Henry Highland Garnet delivered his “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY. While often read (and almost as often dismissed) as either an unqualified call for a violent slave rebellion or, at the least, a celebration of prior acts of militant resistance which suggested that such methods deserved further consideration than they were …
The feminization of liberty, domesticated virtue, and the reconstitution of power and authority in early American political discourse
In 1980, Michael McGee suggested that power is “feminized” to produce liberty. This study rearranges the terms of McGee's equation in order to describe and analyze the shifting terrain of early American political discourse. The essay seeks to reconstruct the metaphorical and discursive processes that led from the feminization of liberty to a political culture organized by the practices of “virtuous power.”
(Re)Constituting community through narrative argument
This essay analyzes the way a specific narrative text—Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 feature film The Big Chill—confronts the relationship between communal norms and political possibilities. By inviting the audience to engage in a constant process of character and community identification and contrast, the film enacts a complex disjunctive narrative argument endorsing a specific form of communal affiliation (what Hannah Arendt refers to as philia) and re…
Perspectives on public communication
Rhetoric and judgment in the constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788
The relationship between the practice of public rhetoric and the nature of political judgment is complex. The essay analyzes a pivotal constitutive controversy, the public Constitutional ratification debate of 1787–1788, and uncovers conflicting objects and standards of judgment. The essay demonstrates that Federalists advocated a “formal” and “spectator?oriented” model of judgment while Anti?Federalists depicted a “substantive” and “actor?orient…
Beyond the Culture Wars
Dennis K. Davis, James Jasinski; Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Research on Communication and Culture, Journal of Communication, Volume 43, Issue 3
(Re)Constituting community through narrative argument
This essay analyzes the way a specific narrative text—Lawrence Kasdan's 1983 feature film The Big Chill—confronts the relationship between communal norms and political possibilities. By inviting the audience to engage in a constant process of character and community identification and contrast, the film enacts a complex disjunctive narrative argument endorsing a specific form of communal affiliation (what Hannah Arendt refers to as philia) and re…
The feminization of liberty, domesticated virtue, and the reconstitution of power and authority in early American political discourse
In 1980, Michael McGee suggested that power is “feminized” to produce liberty. This study rearranges the terms of McGee's equation in order to describe and analyze the shifting terrain of early American political discourse. The essay seeks to reconstruct the metaphorical and discursive processes that led from the feminization of liberty to a political culture organized by the practices of “virtuous power.”
The forms and limits of prudence in Henry Clay's (1850) defense of the compromise measures
In this essay, Henry Clay's rhetorical performance during the 1850 compromise debate is read as an exercise in prudential action. The intent is to offer a grounded critical reading of the discursive instantiation of prudence. The essay argues that Clay both employs a particular idiom and enacts a particular form of prudential conduct: prudential accommodation. The rhetorical forms and practical limits of this prudential idiom are explored. This e…
Authorizing the Past
Journal Article Authorizing the Past: The Rhetoric of History in Seventeenth-Century New England. By Stephen Carl Arch. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. xiv, 232 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-87580-188-9.) Get access James Jasinski James Jasinski University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1371–1372, http…
History-Making and the Skills of World-Disclosing
Constituting Antebellum African American Identity
In August 1843 Presbyterian minister Henry Highland Garnet delivered his “Address to the Slaves of the United States of America” to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY. While often read (and almost as often dismissed) as either an unqualified call for a violent slave rebellion or, at the least, a celebration of prior acts of militant resistance which suggested that such methods deserved further consideration than they were …
Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)