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Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World

by Carolyn Handa

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Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World

A Critical Sourcebook

First Edition ©2004

ISBN-10: 0-312-40975-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-40975-3
Paper Text, 504 pages

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Authors

INTRODUCTION

Placing the Visual in the Writing Classroom


Part One TOWARD A PEDAGOGY OF THE VISUAL


Introduction

1 Visualizing English: Recognizing the Hybrid Literacy of Visual and Verbal Authorship on the Web
CRAIG STROUPE


2 Multimodality, Multimedia, and Genre
GUNTHER KRESS


3 Learning from the Past: Verbal and Visual Literacy in Early Modern Rhetoric and Writing Pedagogy
CATHERINE L. HOBBS


4 Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media
J. L. LEMKE


5 Seeing the Text
STEPHEN A. BERNHARDT


6 Reading the Visual in College Writing Classes
CHARLES A. HILL



Part Two THE RHETORIC OF THE IMAGE


Introduction


7 Pictures, Symbols, and Signs
RUDOLPH ARNHEIM


8 Rhetoric of the Image
ROLAND BARTHES


9 Representing Macbeth: A Case Study in Visual Rhetoric
HANNO H. J. EHSES


10 The Role of Abstraction in Scientific Illustration: Implications for Pedagogy
PUNYASHLOKE MISHRA


11 From The Vocabulary of Comics
SCOTT MCCLOUD


12 Visual Pragmatism for a Virtual World
BARBARA STAFFORD



Part Three THE RHETORIC OF DESIGN


Introduction


13 Rhetoric, Humanism, and Design
RICHARD BUCHANAN


14 Delivering the Message: Typography and the Materiality of Writing
JOHN TRIMBUR


15 The Rules of Typography According to Crackpots Experts
JEFFERY KEEDY


16 Electronic Typography: The New Visual Language
JESSICA HELFAND


17 The Power of Punctuation
MARTIN SOLOMON


18 Repetition and the Rhetoric of Visual Design
JAMES E. PORTER AND PATRICIA A. SULLIVAN


Part Four VISUAL RHETORIC AND ARGUMENT


Introduction


19 Toward a Theory of Visual Argument
DAVID S. BIRDSELL AND LEO GROARKE


20 Building Visual Communication Theory by Borrowing from Rhetoric
KEITH KENNEY


21 The Possibility and Actuality of Visual Arguments
J. ANTHONY BLAIR


22 The Problem of Electronic Argument: A Humanist’s Perspective
MICHELE S. SHAUF


23 Figures of Rhetoric
RICHARD A. LANHAM


24 Rhetorical Devices and Tight Integration
ROBERT HORN

 

Part Five VISUAL RHETORIC AND CULTURE


Introduction


25 Studying Visual Culture
IRIT ROGOFF


26 Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice
BELL HOOKS


27 The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
MARITA STURKEN


28 Subjunctive Documentary: Computer Imaging and Simulation
MARK J. P. WOLF


29 Paradigms Lost and Found: The ÒCrisis of RepresentationÓ and Visual Anthropology
NANCY LUTKEHAUS AND JENNY COOL


30 The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge
RICHARD A. LANHAM


Selected Readings for Further Study

Notes on the Authors

Note on the Editor

Index

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