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Changing the subject : a theory of rhetorical empathy / Lisa Blankenship.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blankenship, Lisa, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhetoric.
- Empathy.
- Physical Description:
- x, 159 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Logan : Utah State University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Explores ways of engaging across difference by studying the concept of empathy from a rhetorical perspective. Considers how empathy can be deliberate, conscious choice to understand others through listening and exploration of pathos. How language and symbol systems play in this process that is cognitive and affective"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A brief history of empathy
- Threads of feminist rhetorical practices: storyelling and empathy from Gilded Age Chicago to Facebook
- Rhetorical empathy in the gay rights/religious divide
- Beyond "common ground": rhetorical empathy in composition pedagogies
- Epilogue: A theory of rhetorical empathy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781607329091
- 1607329093
- OCLC:
- 1100426214
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