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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Crescent: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage, 2023
Essays and photos honoring the cultural and archaeological significance of Ohio’s first UNESCO Wo... more Essays and photos honoring the cultural and archaeological significance of Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 2000-year-old Newark Earthworks.
Rising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen complex ever known. In the two thousand years of their existence, they have served as gathering place, ceremonial site, fairground, army encampment, golf course, and park. And, at long last, they (along with neighboring sites) were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023—a designation that recognizes their international importance as a direct link to the ancient past as well as their continuing cultural and archaeological significance.
The lush photos and wide-ranging essays of The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos honor this significance, not only to the global community but to local individuals and scholars who have developed intimate connections to the Earthworks. In sharing their experiences with this ancient site, public historians, archaeologists, physicists, architects, and others—including local and Indigenous voices—continue the work of nearly two hundred years of citizen efforts to protect and make accessible the Newark Earthworks after centuries of stewardship by Indigenous people. The resulting volume serves as a rich primer on the site for those unfamiliar with its history and a beautifully produced tribute for those who are already acquainted with its wonders.
All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the Ohio History Connection and the Newark Earthworks Center in their efforts to manage and interpret the site for the world.
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In the Classroom with Kenneth Burke, 2023
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A Charge for Change: A Selection of Essays from the 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, edited by Elizabethan Wright and David Beard, 2023
In 1939, Kenneth Burke famously cautioned against a situation like one we face today, in which th... more In 1939, Kenneth Burke famously cautioned against a situation like one
we face today, in which the idea of internal division becomes so anathema
that enforced silence becomes a popular alternative. Despite today’s
push to ban divisive concepts in classrooms, the educational efforts of
American public history museums are experiencing a surprising upsurge.
New museums are countering the myth that silence promotes unity. By
refusing to engage in either antithetical or placating discourses, they
chart a path that centers subaltern experiences while celebrating a shared
future. I consider the implications of their truth and reconciliation
rhetoric by comparing the approaches taken in three museums on the
aftermath of the Civil War. Two of them are purifying war through an
epideictic approach to historical and present-day narratives, and I point
toward the constitutive rhetoric that they are using to reshape identification
with the re-visioned national narrative.
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Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories: Narrating the Past for the Present and Future, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. , 2024
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Rising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen complex ever known. In the two thousand years of their existence, they have served as gathering place, ceremonial site, fairground, army encampment, golf course, and park. And, at long last, they (along with neighboring sites) were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023—a designation that recognizes their international importance as a direct link to the ancient past as well as their continuing cultural and archaeological significance.
The lush photos and wide-ranging essays of The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos honor this significance, not only to the global community but to local individuals and scholars who have developed intimate connections to the Earthworks. In sharing their experiences with this ancient site, public historians, archaeologists, physicists, architects, and others—including local and Indigenous voices—continue the work of nearly two hundred years of citizen efforts to protect and make accessible the Newark Earthworks after centuries of stewardship by Indigenous people. The resulting volume serves as a rich primer on the site for those unfamiliar with its history and a beautifully produced tribute for those who are already acquainted with its wonders.
All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the Ohio History Connection and the Newark Earthworks Center in their efforts to manage and interpret the site for the world.
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In the Classroom with Kenneth Burke, 2023
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A Charge for Change: A Selection of Essays from the 20th Biennial Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, edited by Elizabethan Wright and David Beard, 2023
In 1939, Kenneth Burke famously cautioned against a situation like one we face today, in which th... more In 1939, Kenneth Burke famously cautioned against a situation like one
we face today, in which the idea of internal division becomes so anathema
that enforced silence becomes a popular alternative. Despite today’s
push to ban divisive concepts in classrooms, the educational efforts of
American public history museums are experiencing a surprising upsurge.
New museums are countering the myth that silence promotes unity. By
refusing to engage in either antithetical or placating discourses, they
chart a path that centers subaltern experiences while celebrating a shared
future. I consider the implications of their truth and reconciliation
rhetoric by comparing the approaches taken in three museums on the
aftermath of the Civil War. Two of them are purifying war through an
epideictic approach to historical and present-day narratives, and I point
toward the constitutive rhetoric that they are using to reshape identification
with the re-visioned national narrative.
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Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories: Narrating the Past for the Present and Future, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024. , 2024
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Essays and photos honoring the cultural and archaeological significance of Ohio’s first UNESCO Wo... more Essays and photos honoring the cultural and archaeological significance of Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site, the 2000-year-old Newark Earthworks.
Rising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen complex ever known. In the two thousand years of their existence, they have served as gathering place, ceremonial site, fairground, army encampment, golf course, and park. And, at long last, they (along with neighboring sites) were named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023—a designation that recognizes their international importance as a direct link to the ancient past as well as their continuing cultural and archaeological significance.
The lush photos and wide-ranging essays of The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos honor this significance, not only to the global community but to local individuals and scholars who have developed intimate connections to the Earthworks. In sharing their experiences with this ancient site, public historians, archaeologists, physicists, architects, and others—including local and Indigenous voices—continue the work of nearly two hundred years of citizen efforts to protect and make accessible the Newark Earthworks after centuries of stewardship by Indigenous people. The resulting volume serves as a rich primer on the site for those unfamiliar with its history and a beautifully produced tribute for those who are already acquainted with its wonders.
All proceeds from the sale of this book go to support the Ohio History Connection and the Newark Earthworks Center in their efforts to manage and interpret the site for the world.
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In the Classroom with Kenneth Burke, edited by Ann George and M. Elizabeth Weiser , 2023
Teaching students to be “symbol-wise” about the world is vital not simply to students in a succes... more Teaching students to be “symbol-wise” about the world is vital not simply to students in a successful class but to citizens in a functioning nation. Humans make sense of their world through language, and Kenneth Burke, the “word man,” spent a lifetime considering how language symbols help us better understand ourselves and our interactions with others. Becoming symbol-wise is a skill teachable—and relevant—to any student of communal life in these divisive times. IN THE CLASSROOM WITH KENNETH BURKE pulls together some of the long-standing icons of Burkean pedagogy and some of its newest voices to show how any teacher can teach Burke’s concepts of symbolic analysis, updated for modern classrooms and incorporating his ideas into full courses, assignment sequences, or single units.
The authors share helpful pointers, syllabi, and lesson plans that make teaching Burke accessible to students in everything from a first-year composition course to an advanced graduate program—in rhetoric, writing and communication, political science, education, even the health professions. IN THE CLASSROOM WITH KENNETH BURKE provides practical approaches to and passionate arguments for teaching Burke’s ideas and methods to new generations of students, who now, more than ever, must effectively engage with complex issues of identity, power, and conflict.
Contributors include James Beasley, Elvera Berry, David Blakesley, Bryan Crable, Rachel Chapman Daugherty, Ann George, Annie Laurie Nichols, Kris Rutten, Jack Selzer, Jarron Slater, Jouni Tilli, Laura Van Beveren, Shannon Walters, and M. Elizabeth Weiser.
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Penn State University Press, 2017
In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in wh... more In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural heritage and national identity.
Based on fieldwork conducted in over sixty museums in twenty-two countries across six continents, Museum Rhetoric explores how heritage museum exhibits persuade visitors to unite their own sense of identity with that of the broader civic society and how the latter changes in response. Elizabeth Weiser explores what compels communities, organizations, and nations to create museum spaces, and how museums operate as sites of both civic engagement and rhetorical persuasion. Moving beyond rhetorical explorations of museums as “memory sites,” she shows how they intentionally straddle the divides between style and content, intellect and affect, unity and diversity, and why their portrayal of the past matters to civic life—and particularly studies of nationalism—in the present and future.
Deeply researched and artfully argued, Museum Rhetoric, a publication of the RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric, sheds light on the public impact of cultural and aesthetic heritage and opens avenues of inquiry for scholars of museum studies and public history.
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Women and Rhetoric Between the Wars, Southern Illinois University Press, 2013
In Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, editors Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepern... more In Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, editors Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick have gathered together insightful essays from major scholars on women whose practices and theories helped shape the field of modern rhetoric. Examining the period between World War I and World War II, this volume sheds light on the forgotten rhetorical work done by the women of that time. It also goes beyond recovery to develop new methodologies for future research in the field.
Collected within are analyses of familiar figures such as Jane Addams, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, and Bessie Smith, as well as explorations of less well known, yet nevertheless influential, women such as Zitkala-Ša, Jovita González, and Florence Sabin. Contributors evaluate the forces in the civic, entertainment, and academic scenes that influenced the rhetorical praxis of these women. Each essay presents examples of women’s rhetoric that move us away from the “waves” model toward a more accurate understanding of women’s multiple, diverse rhetorical interventions in public discourse. The collection thus creates a new understanding of historiography, the rise of modern rhetorical theory, and the role of women professionals after suffrage. From celebrities to scientists, suffragettes to academics, the dynamic women of this volume speak eloquently to the field of rhetoric studies today.
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NCTE Press, 2009
This collection builds upon Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford’s groundbreaking work to examine the rhe... more This collection builds upon Lisa Ede and Andrea Lunsford’s groundbreaking work to examine the rhetorical concept of audience as it relates to twenty-first century teaching and learning. Editors M. Elizabeth Weiser, Brian M. Fehler, and Angela M. González bring together compositionists from the departments of English, communications, public relations, and writing to offer insights that serve as a guide for incorporating audience awareness into the contemporary classroom.
Contributors engage in a dialogue with Ede and Lunsford’s previously published essays “Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked: The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Pedagogy” and “Representing Audience: ‘Successful’ Discourse and Disciplinary Critique,” as well as their new essay, “Among the Audience: On Audience in an Age of New Literacies,” written especially for this collection.
Through these engagements, contributors offer insights on audience from divergent perspectives—composition pedagogy, new media studies, service learning and professional writing, diversity, and rhetorical and literary theory—that establish a third category in the addressed/invoked binary, an “audience updated” that takes various professional and cultural forms but is most evidently “audience interacting.”
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University of South Carolina Press, 2008
A fresh approach to understanding Kenneth Burke's landmark cultural theory as a rhetorical respon... more A fresh approach to understanding Kenneth Burke's landmark cultural theory as a rhetorical response to war
In Burke, War, Words, M. Elizabeth Weiser reinserts Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism into the social milieu from which it originated, fostering a new understanding of how this concept of motivation was itself motivated by war and criticism. Weiser's model of a new approach to historiography contextualizes
Dramatism was a direct response to the global crisis wrought by World War II and to Burke's then-ongoing debates with New Critics, sociolinguists, political activists, and government propagandists over the role of language and communication to affect the world. Central to Burke's germinal volume A Grammar of Motives, dramatism was a call to action advocating informed social dialogue at a time when an allied victory seemed dependent instead on rallying behind a single strong voice in a unity not unlike that mandated by fascism itself. Weiser contends that Burke conceived dramatism as an alternative to New Criticism and as a blueprint for a dialectical resolution that was an antifascist rhetorical response to war.
Weiser draws from published and unpublished communications between Burke and the diverse and divergent literati of his era as well as from Burke's scholarly, political, and even poetic writings of the time. From this context she is able to map the complex arc of formulating A Grammar of Motives in Burke's larger wartime discourse. For Weiser establishing the origins of dramatism offers a model for enhancing our understanding of other rhetorical theories as well as a specific renewal of purpose for dramatism as an action-oriented tool to engage intellectuals in our conflicted age as Burke had envisioned in his.
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Gallery talk, 2019
When Jenny Holzer first hung her text-based Inflammatory Essays on walls around New York City, Wa... more When Jenny Holzer first hung her text-based Inflammatory Essays on walls around New York City, Walter Cronkite was still telling nightly news viewers, “And that’s the way it is.” Holzer contradicted that perspective with a polyphony of tone and content unified by style. Today contradiction and discord rule the public sphere. Are Holzer’s Essays just a mirror of our times now, or can we learn something about effective incongruity from her curated juxtapositions when they’re viewed in a museum?
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