A revolution in tropes : alloiostrophic rhetoric / Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sutton, Jane S.

Contributor:

Mifsud, Mari Lee, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--History.

Rhetoric.

History.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Figures of speech.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 128 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display affoiosis as a trope of difference, exception, and radial otherness. Their argument centers on Aristatle's theory of rhetoric through particular tropes of similarity that sustained a vision of civic discourse but of the same time underutilized tropes of difference. When this vision is revolutionized, democratic deliberation can perform and advance its ends of equality, justice, and freedom. Marie-Odile N. Hobeika and Michele Kennerly join Sutton and Mifsud in pushing the limits of rhetoric by engaging rhetoric alloiostrophically. Their collective efforts work to display the possibilities of what rhetoric can be. A Revolution in Tropes will appeal to scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and communication. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Figuring Out/In Rhetoric; From Antistrophe to Alloiostrophe / Jane S. Sutton Sutton, Jane S., Mari Lee Mifsud Mifsud, Mari Lee 1

2 The Earth Is Not at Rest and Neither Should Be Rhetoric / Jane S. Sutton Sutton, Jane S. 19

3 Essay as Parataxis: Theorizing Alloiosis / Marie-Odile N. Hobeika Hobeika, Marie-Odile N. 47

4 Beyond Syntax and Cities at War; Doing Rhetoric's History and Theory Alloiostrophically / Mari Lee Mifsud Mifsud, Mari Lee 65

5 An Alloiotrophic Addition / Michele Kennerfy Kennerfy, Michele 83.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-119) and index.

ISBN:

9780739195048

0739195042

OCLC:

898163258