Books written by Patricia Roberts-Miller

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  Rhetoric and Demagoguery

  "Through a series of case studies, Patricia Roberts-Miller argues for seeing demagoguery as a way that people participate in public discourse, not necessarily populist and not necessarily heavily emotional.

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  Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric

  Ed. Ciaran P. Cronin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. —. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. —. The Theory of Communicative ...

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  Rhetoric and Demagoguery

  ... Kendall Gerdes, Megan Gianfagna, Rhiannon Goad, Hannah Harrison, Justin Hatch, Tekla Hawkins, Rodney Herring, Vicky Hill, Nathan Kreuter, Mark Longaker, Stephanie Odom, Rachel Schneider, Jeremy Smyczek, Connie Steel, Jazmine Wells.

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  Demagoguery and Democracy

  Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them. Why is it dangerous?

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  Deliberate Conflict: Argument, Political Theory, and Composition Classes

  To answer this, the text provides a taxonomy, discussion, and evaluation of political theories that underpin democratic discourse, highlighting the relationship between various models of the public sphere and rhetorical theory.

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  Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus

  What was the relationship between rhetoric and slavery, and how did rhetoric fail as an alternative to violence, becoming instead its precursor? Fanatical Schemes is a study of proslavery rhetoric...

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  Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus

  Wiethoff has argued that there almost certainly were abusive scoundrels among the overseers, but he has also ... overseers to overwork slaves, it was still widely used because itwas profitable (Crafting the Overseer's Image 3–4).

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  Demagoguery and Democracy

  Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a demagogue is anyone who reduces all questions to us vs. them. Why is it dangerous?

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  Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together

  Patricia Roberts-Miller is a scholar of rhetoric—the art of understanding misunderstandings.