Barbara A. Biesecker

Remembering World War II: The rhetoric and politics of national commemoration at the turn of the 21st century

This essay critically examines the reemergence of World War II in public culture. By analyzing four popular memory texts (the World, War II Memorial, Saving Private Ryan, The Greatest Generation, and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial) as well as the discourse circulating about them, it argues that these reconstructions of the past function rhetorically as civics lessons for a generation beset by fractious disagreements about the viability of U.S. culture and identity.

Rhetorical studies and the “new” psychoanalysis: What's the real problem? Or framing the problem of the real

READ MY DESIRE: LACAN AGAINST THE HISTORICISTS. By Joan Copjec. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1994; pp. 272.

Towards a transactional view of rhetorical and feminist theory: Rereading Helene Cixous's the laugh of the medusa

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Whither Ideology? Toward a Different Take on Enjoyment as a Political Factor

14.00. THE SPOILS OF FREEDOM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM AFTER THE FALL OF SOCIALISM. By Renata Salecl. London and New York: Routledge, 1994; pp. viii + 167.

Escaping the Voice of the Mass/ter: Late Neoliberalism, Object-Voice, and the Prospects for a Radical Democratic Future

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The Obligation to Theorize, Today

16.95. THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY. By Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso, 1989; pp. xvi + 240.

Introduction to the Centennial Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech

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By way of a long and circuitous route: Propaganda and democracy and/as a lesson in effective history

18.95. UNMARKED: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE. By Peggy Phelan. London and New York: Routledge, 1993; pp. xi + 207.

Rethinking thè Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Différance

62.95; paper

Framing Public Memory

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