04519cam a2200925 4500 2720159685 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781943208470 1943208476 B0C69F13X2 Amazon ab14604b-9fdf-4201-9076-2336d01c5f75 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11022931 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Coulson, Doug. Judicial Rhapsodies [Libby eBook] : Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court. Amherst College Press, 2023. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. Minersville School District v. Gobitis. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Brown v. Board of Education. Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Language and Symbolic Power. United States Constitution. epideictic speech genres. Griswold v. Connecticut. Sweezy v. New Hampshire. Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. The Federalist Papers. abortion restrictions. Fourteenth Amendment. affirmative modality. ceremonial discourse. Justice John Roberts. Sandra Day O'Connor. Linguistic Analysis. demise of democracy. Political Rhetoric. due process clause. same-sex marriage. contraceptive ban. academic freedom. ritual discourse. The New Rhetoric. civic education. Pierre Bourdieu. marriage rights. anthony kennedy. Bill of Rights. Women's rights. Legal Rhetoric. Milton Konvitz. Chaïm Perelman. Barbara Perry. Eugene Garver. gnomic aspect. Legal Theory. abortion ban. David Souter. tare decisis. free speech. Roe v. Wade. Enumeration. Frank Upham. Gay Rights. antithesis. Eloquence. asyndeton. Praise. HTML:All judges legitimize their decisions in writing, but US Supreme Court justices depend on public acceptance to a unique degree. Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions. Doug Coulson demonstrates that such "judicial rhapsodies" are not an aberration but a central feature of judicial discourse.<br /> <br /> First examining the classical origins of divisions between law and rhetoric, Coulson tracks what he calls an epideictic register—highly affective forms of expression that utilize hyperbole, amplification, and vocabularies of praise—through a surprising number of landmark Supreme Court opinions. Judicial Rhapsodies recovers and revalues these instances as significant to establishing and maintaining shared perspectives that form the basis for common experience and cooperation.<br /> <br /> "Judicial Rhapsodies is both compelling and important. Coulson brings his well-developed knowledge of rhetoric to bear on one of the most central (and most democratically fraught) means of governance in the United States: the Supreme Court opinion. He demonstrates that the epideictic, far from being a dispensable or detestable element of judicial rhetoric, is an essential feature of how the Court operates and seeks to persuade." —Keith Bybee, Syracuse University. Language Arts. Nonfiction. Law. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ab14604b-9fdf-4201-9076-2336d01c5f75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=ab14604b-9fdf-4201-9076-2336d01c5f75&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)