Clockwork rhetoric : the language and style of steampunk / edited by Barry Brummett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brummett, Barry, 1951- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Steampunk fiction--History and criticism.

Steampunk fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Literary style.

Steampunk culture.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Clock-work rhetoric : the language and style of steampunk

Language and style of steampunk

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]

Summary:

"Explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement 'steampunk,' [an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam], persuades audiences and wins new acolytes"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

The rhetoric of Steampunk / Barry Brummett

A rhetoric of Steam / David Beard

"There is hope for the future" : the (dis)enchantment of the technician-hero in Steampunk / Mirko M. Hall and Joshua Gunn

Victorians, machines, and exotic others : Steampunk and the aesthetic of empire / Kristin Stimpson

Liberation and a corset : examining false feminism in Steampunk / Mary Anne Taylor

Antimodernism as the rhetoric of Steampunk anime fullmetal alchemist : technological anxieties and controlling the machine / Elizabeth Birmingham

Jumping scale in Steampunk : one gear makes you larger, one duct makes you small / Barry Brummett

Steampunk and Sherlock Holmes : performing post-Marxism / Jaime Wright

Kenneth Burke meets a time lord : Steampunk's grammatical disruption / John R. Thompson

Clockwork counterfactuals : allohistory and the Steampunk rhetoric of inquiry / John M. McKenzie

Steampunk's identity horizon and contested memory / Andrew Mara

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes Steampunk superhero? / Lisa Horton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Clockwork rhetoric

ISBN:

9781628460919

1628460911

OCLC:

878050627