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Radical Rhetoric of the English Deists
The Discourse of Skepticism, 1680-1750
Inbunden, 1997
465 kr
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Focusing on the works of lesser-known yet influential Deists, the author examines the 70-year polemic between the Church of England and the English Deists, illuminating the rhetorical war which raged between them. He contends that Deism owes its significance to these skilled controversialists.
Listening to Their Voices
The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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The 18 essays in this volume seek to retrieve the voices of women who contributed to the rhetorical realm. Beginning by tracing the patriarchal nature of traditional rhetorical histories, the articles then examine exceptional women rhetoricians, their practices and strategies, throughout history.
Gorgias, Sophist and Artist
Inbunden, 2001
462 kr
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Of the ancient Greek Sophists, Gorgias of Leontini (c.483-376BCE) has endured more than his share of insistent detractors. Aristophanes depicted him as a barbaric sycophant, Plato considered him an opportunistic charlatan indifferent to truth and morality, and Aristotle saw him as a gaudy but inept …
Humane Particulars
The Collected Letters of William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke
Av William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
490 kr
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Significantly deepening our understanding of two key figures from the modernist period, The Humane Particulars collects the letters between William Carlos Williams and Kenneth Burke. Written during forty-two years of close friendship and literary debate, these nearly 250 letters span two long …
Protagoras and Logos
A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric
Av Edward Schiappa, Thomas W. Benson
Häftad, 2003
390 kr
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Protagoras and Logos brings together in a meaningful synthesis the contributions and rhetoric of the first and most famous of the Older Sophists, Protagoras of Abdera. This book reassesses the philosophical and pedagogical contributions of Protagoras.
Rhetorical Landscapes in America
Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke
Inbunden, 2004
518 kr
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At the same time a reading of Kenneth Burke and of tourist landscapes in America, Gregory Clark's new study explores the rhetorical power connected with American tourism. Looking specifically at a time when citizens of the United States first took to rail and then highway to become sightseers in …
Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
The Impact on Chinese Thought, Culture, and Communication
Av Xing Lu
Inbunden, 2016
1353 kr
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Now known to the Chinese as the ""ten years of chaos,"" the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution identifies the rhetorical features and explores the persuasive effects of political …
Rhetorics of Display
Av Lawrence J. Prelli, Lawrence J. Prelli m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
430 kr
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Rhetorics of Display is a pathbreaking volume that brings together a distinguished group of scholars to assess an increasingly pervasive form of rhetorical activity. Editor Lawrence J. Prelli notes in his introduction that twenty-first century citizens continually confront displays of information …
Patient Tales
Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiatry
Inbunden, 2008
529 kr
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This book looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of today. In this engrossing study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession. …
Rhetoric and Community
Studies in Unity and Fragmentation
Häftad, 2008
362 kr
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This is a collection of rhetorical case studies that fathom the construction and destruction of communities.In ""Rhetoric and Community"", seventeen contributors explore an area of growing scholarly interest - how rhetoric defines, rallies, polarizes, and marginalizes specific communities. The …
Call of Conscience
Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate
Häftad, 2008
334 kr
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This book offers a provocative rhetorical approach to one of the defining medical debates of our time.Michael J. Hyde's pathbreaking study considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to the controversial issues of euthanasia. Hyde …
Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
Häftad, 2008
447 kr
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This title provides an introduction to the rhetorical tradition of sophistical dialectics in antiquity.In ""Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece"", John Poulakos offers a new conceptualization of sophistry, explaining its direction and shape as well as the reasons why Plato, Isocrates, and …
Speaking for the Polis
Isocrates' Rhetorical Education
Häftad, 2008
384 kr
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This is a revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studies. ""Speaking for the Polis"" considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' efforts to …
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
Häftad, 2010
277 kr
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This work offers a provocative reconsideration of two competing classical approaches to discourse, politics, and education. ""Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle"" presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Casting …
Democracy and Rhetoric
John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming
Av Nathan Crick
Inbunden, 2010
632 kr
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This title presents an innovative approach to Dewey's view of rhetoric as art, revealing an 'ontology of becoming'. In ""Democracy and Rhetoric"", Nathan Crick articulates from John Dewey's body of work a philosophy of rhetoric that reveals the necessity for bringing forth a democratic life infused …
Sufi Aesthetics
Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn 'Arabi and 'Iraqi
Inbunden, 2011
689 kr
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Sufi Aesthetics argues that the interpretive keys to erotic Sufi poems and their medieval commentaries lie in understanding a unique perceptual experience. Using careful analysis of primary texts, Cyrus Ali Zargar explores the theoretical and poetic pronouncements of two major Muslim mystics, Muhyi …
Sonic Liturgy
Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition
Av Guy L. Beck
Inbunden, 2011
626 kr
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This builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical traditions of worship.
Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E
A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric
Av Xing Lu
Häftad, 2011
329 kr
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Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of five schools …
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Inbunden, 2012
1314 kr
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An examination of the discourse of political prisoners as a form of vernacular rhetoricPrisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In …
Moving Bodies
Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language
Av Debra Hawhee
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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Kenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but few know him as one of the twentieth century's foremost theorists of the relationship between language and bodies. In Moving Bodies, Debra Hawhee focuses on Burke's studies from the 1930s, 40s, and …
Managing Vulnerability
South Africa's Struggle for a Democratic Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2012
422 kr
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A detailed account of the struggle to cultivate connectedness out of the divisiveness of apartheidIn Managing Vulnerability, Richard C. Marback analyses the tension surrounding the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa through a rhetorical lens. Marback studies the heart of South …
Burke in the Archives
Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies
Av Dana Anderson, Jessica Enoch
Inbunden, 2013
679 kr
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Burke in the Archives brings together thirteen original essays by leading and emerging Kenneth Burke scholars to explore provocatively the twenty-first-century usefulness of a figure widely regarded as the twentieth century's most influential rhetorician. Edited by Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch, …
Figuring Style
The Legacy of Renaissance Rhetoric
Inbunden, 2013
1528 kr
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Nancy L. Christiansen provides a broad and deep introduction to the discussion of rhetorical stylistic instruction in the English Renaissance. She argues that most contemporary characterisations of Renaissance stylistic theory are reductions obscuring the comprehensive composing and reading method …
Breast or Bottle?
Contemporary Controversies in Infant-Feeding Policy and Practice
Av Amy Koerber
Häftad, 2013
402 kr
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Breast or Bottle? is the first scholarly examination of the shift in breastfeeding recommendations occurring over the last half century. Through a close analysis of scientific and medical controversies and a critical examination of the ways in which medical beliefs are communicated to the public, …
Public Work of Rhetoric
Citizen-Scholars and Civil Engagement
Av John M. Ackerman, David J. Coogan
Häftad, 2013
447 kr
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The Public Work of Rhetoric offers a timely and dynamic endorsement of rhetoric as a potent communications tool for civic engagement and social change, efforts necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy. In this provocative call to action, editors John M. Ackerman and David J. …
Trained Capacities
John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Av Brian Jackson, Gregory Clark
Inbunden, 2014
792 kr
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The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, …
Rhetorics and Technologies
New Directions in Writing and Communication
Häftad, 2013
447 kr
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Recognising an increasingly technological context for rhetorical activity, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully navigating intersections between rhetoric and technology in existing and emergent literacy practices. Edited by …
Prisoners of Conscience
Moral Vernaculars of Political Agency
Häftad, 2014
447 kr
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Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the …
Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama
The Price and Promise of Citizenship
Inbunden, 2015
518 kr
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Terrill, Robert E. argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill …
