1st Edition

Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage Theory in the Body

By Fiona Harris Ramsby Copyright 2021
174 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to oppress and deny equal rights to marginalized groups of people. Drawing from Aristophanes’ rhetorical plays as a template for rhetoric in action,... Read more

1. Performing Rhetorical Theory 

2. "And My Life Blood Out They Suck": Embodying Logos in Clouds 

3. "I I I" is for Ideology: Staging Metaphor in Torch Song and Angels in America 

4. Acts of Silence and Silence's Acts in Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and Suzan Lori-Parks’ Venus 

5. Blonde Wigs and Butterflies: Queering the Intertextual Binaries in M Butterfly and Hedwig and the Angry Inch  

6. Rhetoric, Performance, and Pedagogy

Biography

Fiona (Freddie) Harris Ramsby is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. She is also the Artistic Producer at The Company @ Bloomfield College, a collaborative student, staff, and faculty theatre initiative dedicated to promoting and producing new works and emerging artists.

"Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage, is part of the Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication series and is a valuable resource for voice and speech practitioners who specialize in text, and for those who teach public speaking."

Liz DeBetta, CEW+, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA