Foreword : against rhetorical theory : tripping to Serendip / Robert L. Scott
The state of the art in public address scholarship / David Zarefsky
Public address and significant scholarship : four challenges to the rhetorical Renaissance / Martin J. Medhurst
Public address and rhetorical theory / James Arnt Aune
Burke's Speech on conciliation : the pragmatic basis of rhetorical judgment / Stephen H. Browne
Burke's Speech on conciliation as oppositional discourse / John Louis Lucaites
La Pucelle D'Orleans becomes an American girl : Anna Dickinson's "Jeanne D'Arc" / Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Response to Karlyn Kohrs Campbell's Anna E. Dickinson's Jeanne D'Arc : divergent views / Wil Linkugel and Robert Rowland
Metaphor and motive in the Johnson's administration's Viet Nam rhetoric / Robert L. Ivie.
Some Burkean roads not taken : a response to Ivie / Barry Brummett
"I've been to the mountaintop" : the critic as participant / Michael Osborn
"A dangerous unselfishness" : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech at Memphis, April 3, 1968 : a response to Osborn / Joseph W. Wenzel
The fulfillment of time : King's "I have a dream" speech (August 28, 1963) / J. Robert Cox
Time and the reconstitution of gradualism in King's address : a response to Cox / Robert Hariman
Nixon's "fund" : times as ideological resource in the "Checkers" speech / Celeste Michelle Condit
The carnival as confessional : re-reading the figurative dimension in Nixon's "Checkers" speech / Thomas B. Farrell
Epilogue : the oratorical text : the enigma of arrival / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar.
