Propaganda and Rhetoric in Democracy

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
Acknowledgements 4                                                                                        
 
Foreword        Charles Bazerman 5-9                                                                                                  
 
Introduction    “A Call for Renewed Attention to Propaganda in Writing Studies and Rhetoric”
Gae Lyn Henderson and M. J. Braun                        
 
PART I           HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OF PROPAGANDA
 
Chapter 1        “Democracy and Disclosure: Edward Bernays and the Manipulation of the Masses”
                        Sharon Kirsch                                                             
 
Chapter 2        “Jane Addams: A Foe of Rhetorics of Control”
                        Lanette Grate                                                                      
 
Chapter 3        “The Psychological Power of Propaganda: From Psychoanalysis to Kenneth Burke”
                        Gae Lyn Henderson                                   
 
Chapter 4        “Elizabeth Bowen’s Wavering Attitude toward World War II Propaganda”
                        Stefania Porcelli                                                            
 
Chapter 5       “‘Propaganda’ Defined”                                                                       
                        Thomas Huckin
 
Chapter 6        “A Taxonomy of Bullshit” 
                        Gary Thompson                                                                            
 
PART II:         PROPAGANDA’S CHALLENGE TO DEMOCRACY: SITES AND MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL
 
Chapter 7        “Popular Economics: Neoliberal Propaganda and its Affectivity”
                        Catherine Chaput                                                               
 
Chapter 8        “Privatized Propaganda and Broadcast News: Legitimizing the ‘Call-to-Arms’"
                        John Oddo and Patricia Dunmire                                                  
 
Chapter 9        “Attention! Rumor Bombs, Affect, Managed Democracy 3.0”
                        Jayson Harsin                                                                     
 
Chapter 10      “The Contract with America: A Legal, Social, and Rhetorical Contractual Obligation”
                        Meg H. Kunde                                                                              
 
Chapter 11      “Propagandist Management: ‘Sustainability’ in the Corporatized Public University”
                        Laural Lea Adams                                                          
 
Conclusion      “Writing Dissent in the Propaganda Flood”
                        Robert Jensen
 
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