Giving "Timeless Effect to the Farewell Address": Repetition and Reflection in the United States Senate

Authors

Adam J. Gaffey, Winona State University

Description

The author presents "a general overview of Washington's Farewell Address and the emergence of the institutional ritual in the Senate. Next, I clarify the presumptions and premises of extensional constitutive rhetoric and clarify how the Senate's palimpsest of signatures fits into the act of expanding the meaning of Washington's text, followed by an analysis of the document itself. Finally, I consider the relevance of this case study against conceptions of effect and the relationship between institutional philosophies and the actualizing of a text." - Author's summary

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publisher

University of South Carolina Press

Keywords

Communication Studies, Faculty Works, Scholarship

Department

Communication Studies

Comments

"Giving 'Timeless' Effect to the Farewell Address: Repetition and Reflection in the United States Senate," in The Effects of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Effects: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Amos Kiewe and Davis Houck (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2015): 162-177.

Recommended Citation

Gaffey, Adam J., "Giving "Timeless Effect to the Farewell Address": Repetition and Reflection in the United States Senate" (2015). Communication Studies Faculty Works. 25.
https://openriver.winona.edu/communicationstudiesfacultyworks/25

Unique Identifier

WSUCMSTFACWORKS-2015-Gaffey-Giving_Timeless_Effect_to_the_Farewell.pdf