Coming to Terms

Janette Kenner Muir; Jane Blankenship

doi:10.5771/9780739145708

Summary

Coming to Terms: The Collected Works of Jane Blankenship, an edited collection from Jane Blankenship and Janette Kenner Muir, is the story of one academic journey through self-discovery, intellectual development, and mentorship. It is a conversation that illustrates how, in Mary Catherine Bateson’s terms, one composes a life that has meaning and makes a significant difference in other lives as well. Jane Blankenship was an active member of the speech communication discipline, starting with her first job teaching in the Rhetoric and Composition program at Mount Holyoke College and finishing with the great distinction of Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. As a noted rhetorical scholar in both criticism and theory, Jane Blankenship was a long-time leader within the National Communication Association (including one of a handful of women who served as president in the 20th Century), and an award winner of numerous teaching and scholarship awards. Throughout her academic career, Blankenship made important contributions to the understanding of language and form, specific literary critics such as Kenneth Burke and Samuel Coleridge, and the role of women in politics. Most importantly, she worked with and inspired a cadre of graduate students who continue to reflect her ideas and perspectives in their own work, particularly in the area of political communication. Through her writing and mentoring, she impacted and changed thousands of lives. Coming to Terms brings together some of the significant pieces that marked Jane Blankenship’s career and also shows the process wherein one makes choices in writing and publishing that underscore the interrelationship between scholarship and teaching—an important element throughout her academic life.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-4568-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4570-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 414
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Credits No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Foreword No access
5. Editor’s Note No access
1. 1. Coming to Terms No access
2. 2. A Critic on Criticism No access
3. 3. In the Presence of the Word (SCA Presidential Address) No access
1. 1. An Introduction No access
  2. The “Energy” of Form No access
  3. Toward a Developmental Model of Form: ABC’s Treatment of the Reagan Inaugural and Iranian Hostage Release as Oxymoron No access
2. 1. Burke and Coleridge Revisited No access
  2. Magic and Mystery in the Works of Kenneth Burke No access
3. 1. An Introduction to Style for the Public Speaker No access
  2. The Influence of Mode, Sub-Mode and Speaker Predilectionon Style, an excerpt No access
  3. State Legislator as Debater: Lincoln, 1834-1842 No access
4. 1. The Search for the 1972 Democratic Nomination: A Metaphorical Perspective No access
  2. Naming and Name Calling as Acts of Definition: Political Campaigns and the 1988 Presidential Debates No access
1. 1. An Introduction and Reflections No access
  2. Pivotal Terms in the Early Works of Kenneth Burke No access
2. 1. Introduction to “Kenneth Burke on Ecology” No access
  2. Kenneth Burke on Ecology: A Synthesis No access
3. 1. Working with Jane Blankenship: The Transformation of Student to Scholar No access
  2. The 1980 Republican Primary Debates: The Transformation of Actor to Scene No access
  3. The Transformation of Actor to Scene: Some Strategic Grounds of the Reagan Legacy No access
1. 1. A “Feminine Style” in Women’s Political Discourse: An Exploratory Essay No access
  2. The Sites and Sounds of Change: The Political Discourse of Women in Electoral Politics No access
2. 1. The People Will Save Themselves: Helen Gahagan Douglas’ Jealousy for Democracy No access
  2. On Not Accepting “Apologies” No access
3. 1. An Introduction to Coming to Terms No access
  2. On Coming to Terms with Terms: The 1984 Ferraro Campaign No access
  3. Our Candidate/Ourselves No access
1. 1. Karl R. Wallace: The Giver of Good Reasons No access
  2. The Song of the Open Road: Marie Hochmuth Nichols as Teacher No access
2. 1. Communications in the Year 2000: As Usual, Some Questions about Means and Ends No access
  2. Keeping the Faith: On Being a Teacher-Scholar in the 20th Century, Building an Academic Discipline No access
  3. On Imaging the Future: The Secular Search for “Piety” No access
Afterword No access Pages 394 - 397
Select Bibliography No access Pages 398 - 407
Current Contributors No access Pages 408 - 409
Index No access Pages 410 - 414