Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge scholarly studies and edited collections in the fields of rhetoric and writing studies. Interdisciplinary in approaches, these titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Rhetoric and Time
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael P. Vicaro, David W. Seitz
March 30, 2027
This volume explores the multifaceted relationship between rhetoric — the art of persuasion – and time. Spanning Ancient Greek, Augustinian, early modern/Enlightenment, and contemporary twentieth- and twenty-first-century eras of the rhetorical tradition, and exploring non-Western and ...
Classical Rhetorical Argumentation for the Rhetorical Critic
1st Edition
By Mika Hietanen
November 24, 2026
This book offers a reassessment of argumentation in classical rhetoric, foregrounding its rational dimension. Moving beyond introductions, it provides insights from Aristotle, Quintilian, and other ancient thinkers while addressing common misconceptions and offering clarifications that are ...
Tricksters of Gotham: The Joker, The Batman, and The Christopher Nolan Trilogy
1st Edition
By Robert E. Terrill
November 24, 2026
Tricksters of Gotham explores the "trickster" tale through an in-depth look at Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. The trickster figure is an ancient and variable figure, versions of which populate the myths and folklore of many human ...
Strategic Use of Humour in Politics: The Rhetorical Advantage of Being Funny
1st Edition
By Viktorija Völker
November 23, 2026
Strategic Use of Humour in Politics examines how humour is not merely entertaining but a multifaceted rhetorical phenomenon. The volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the strategic uses of humour in professional politics, bringing together sources from a wide range of countries and historical...
Rhetorical Argumentation and Extremism
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher W. Tindale
October 20, 2026
Rhetorical Argumentation and Extremism explores the role indirect argumentation plays, and has played, in changing societies by bringing positions previously regarded as extremist into the status quo. After building the theoretical foundations of the project, the concept of extremism is employed as...
Rhetorics of Repair in Museums of Conscience: The Work of Civic Healing
1st Edition
By M. Elizabeth Weiser
August 28, 2026
This book reconceptualizes Kenneth Burke’s comic frame as a critical method for analyzing how publics can be invited into difficult, unresolved conversations about collective history, identity, and justice. Drawing on fieldwork across 12 U.S. museums of conscience, it develops the concept of ...
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing
1st Edition
By Kristin Marie Bivens
May 21, 2026
A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing argues for medico-sonic knowledge — systematically interpreted bodily sounds with medical knowledge mediated by rhetoric — as an evolving corporeal practice with an incomparable, sprawling history. Taking a materialist-feminist perspective, the ...
Rhetoric and Storytelling within the U.S. Asylum Process: Shelter Rhetorics
1st Edition
By Mónica Reyes
May 21, 2026
This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they need to write in order to stay. Centered around a study conducted at a shelter on the U.S. border, this book moves beyond this context to demonstrate how ...
Place in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Text and Topos
1st Edition
Edited
By Randall Fowler, J. Scott Lee
May 14, 2026
This book explains the enduring significance of topos, an Aristotelian translation of the concept of place, by exploring how place shapes the kinds of arguments we make, texts we produce, the arts and technology we use. In tracing the intellectual lineage of topos from classical rhetorical theory ...
Information Rhetorics: Memetics and the Dream of Reverse Engineering Nature and Culture
1st Edition
By Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter
April 07, 2026
Combining a rhetorical approach to the study of memes with profound philosophical concepts about information as a fundamental building block of existence, Information Rhetorics presents a framework for understanding the world through the lens of information transfer. Drawing from rhetorical theory,...
Children as Rhetorical Advocates in Social Movements
1st Edition
By Luke Winslow, Eli Mangold
July 30, 2025
This book examines “Rhetorical Children” as visible and vocal communicators, shaping public discourse on contentious social issues related to organized labor, civil rights, gun violence, and climate change. This book explores four key social movement case studies: the 1903 Mother Jones-led March of...
Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University
1st Edition
By Emily Murphy Cope
July 30, 2025
Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary addresses the question of how Christian undergraduates engage in academic writing and how best to teach them to participate in academic inquiry and prepare them for civic engagement. Exploring how the secular both constrains and supports undergraduates’ ...