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Item The Vietnam Veteran: A Victim of the War's Rhetorical Failure(1988-02-22) Hollihan, Thomas A.; Klumpp, James F.Argues that from defense and media coverage of the Vietnam War, an image of the character and activities of those fighting the war emerged. Within the defense of the war two justifications fought for dominance: a romantic call to idealism and a pragmatic materialist call to complete a task started. These contradictory motivations for the war colored the image of the soldier who fought the war as he became a concrete symbols caught in the contradiction. After the war, survivors had to then struggle with this image produced to defend the war.Item Transcendence in the Barnyard or, From the Barnyard to the Elysian Fields(2012-11) Klumpp, James F.Explores the state of divided politics in 2012, positing the virtue of disagreement but seeing it as potentially productive or destructive. Identifies the characteristics of productive disagreement.Item The Public Sphere and the Political Sphere: Rhetorical Interconnections(2002) Klumpp, James F.Exploration of the relationship between the public sphere and the political sphere. Key rhetorical concepts that mediate the relationship between them are explored.Item Report of the Seminar on Communication and Culture(1990) Klumpp, James F.; and othersReport of a seminar held at the Second Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society, New Harmony, IN, May 1990. Records topics and outcomes for the seminar. Includes ideas about how to use Kenneth Burke's ideas and methods to understand the relationship between Communication and Culture.Item Wading into the Stream of Forensics Research: The View from the Editorial Office(National Forensics Journal, 1990) Klumpp, James F.Commentary on the state of research in debate and forensics in 1990.Item The Unconsumated Flirtation: Contextualist Approaches to Argument(1990-06) Klumpp, James F.Contextualism's influence on the 20th century was profound. This was true also of argumentation studies. But argumentation scholars reached the limits of their engagement of contexualism falling back into formal study of argument. This essay illustrates this argument with studies of the narrative rationality of Walter Fisher and the public sphere theory of Jurgen Habermas.Item Symbolic Power as a Dimension of Public Life(1991-11) Klumpp, James F.Argues for a reconceptualization of citizenship built around participation in the symbolic life of a political community. Ties revisions in political theory into revisions in rhetorical theory.