Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethos dwells pervasively : a hermeneutic reading of Aristotle on credibility / Craig R. Smith -- The ethos of invention : the dialogue of ethics and aesthetics in Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin / Margaret D. Zulick -- Truth as metaphor : imaginative vision and the ethos of rhetoric / Robert Wade Kenny -- The ethos of rhetorical criticism : enlarging the dwelling place of critical praxis / Barbara Warnick -- Sweating the little things in Sidney Lumet's Angry men / Walter Jost -- Special delivery : rhetoric, letter writing, and the question of beauty / John Poulakos -- The ethos of a Black aesthetic : an exploration of Larry Neals visions of a liberated future / Eric King Watts -- Religious rhetoric and the ethos of democracy : a case study of the 2000 presidential campaign / Martin J. Medhurst -- George W. Bush discovers rhetoric : September 20, 2001, and the U.S. response to terrorism / David Zarefsky -- The Rushmore effect : ethos and national collective identity / Carole Blair and Neil Michel -- Expertise and agency : transformations of ethos in human-computer interaction / Carolyn R. Miller.