Rhetorics of display / edited by Lawrence J. Prelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prelli, Lawrence J., 1955-

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication--Philosophy.

Visual communication.

Appearance (Philosophy).

Image (Philosophy).

Exhibitions--Philosophy.

Exhibitions.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

xiii, 443 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2006]

Summary:

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 and images, from the verbal images of speeches and literature to visual images of film and photography to exhibits in museums to the arrangement of our homes to the merchandising of consumer goods. The volume provides an integrated, comprehensive study of the processes of selecting what to reveal and what to conceal that together constitute the rhetorics of display. Surveying major historical transformations in the relationship between rhetoric and display, this book also identifies the leading themes in relevant scholarship of the past three decades.

Seventeen case studies canvass a representative and diverse range of displays-from body piercing to a civil rights memorial to a Titanic exhibition to imagery found in gambling casinos-and examine the ways that phenomena, persons, places, events, identities, communities, and cultures are exhibited before audiences. Collectively the contributors shed light on rhetorics that are nearly ubiquitous in contemporary communication and culture.

Contents:

The verbal depiction of the visual and the visual depiction of the verbal

The disposition of place and the placing of disposition

Demonstrations as rhetorical display and rhetorical display as demonstrative

Epideictic identifications and divisions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-420) and index.

ISBN:

1570036187

1570036195

OCLC:

62738486

Publisher Number:

9781570036187

9781570036194