Hoyt Hopewell Hudson's Nuclear Rhetoric [Academic Criticism's 20th Century Beginnings] (original) (raw)
Details the major theoretical contributions from early communication scholar and rhetorical critic, Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. Demonstrates how he presaged many of the disciplinary changes prior to other, better known scholars of the same period (1920-1950). Among the first from the Cornell School.
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