Rhetoric's pragmatism : essays in rhetorical hermeneutics / Steven Mailloux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mailloux, Steven, author.

Series:

RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.

The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Rhetorical criticism.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 233 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A collection of essays on the methodology of rhetorical hermeneutics. Takes a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation, focusing on the production, circulation, and reception of written and performed communication"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From segregated schools to dimpled chads : rhetorical hermeneutics and the suasive work of theory in legal interpretation

Euro-American rhetorical pragmatism : democratic deliberation and purposeful mediation

Humanist controversies and rhetorical humanism

Rhetorical pragmatism and histories of new media : Rorty on Dreyfus on Kierkegaard on the internet

Making comparisons : first contact, ethnocentrism, and cross-cultural communication

Enactment history, Jesuit practices, and rhetorical hermeneutics

Jesuit comparative theorhetoric

Hermeneutics, deconstruction, allegory

Theotropic logology

Jesuit eloquentia perfecta and theotropic logology

Rhetorical ways of proceeding : eloquentia perfecta in U.S. Jesuit colleges

Judging and hoping : rhetorical effects of reading about reading

Narrative as embodied intensities : the eloquence of travel in nineteenth-century Rome

Conversation with Keith Gilyard

Political theology in Douglass and Melville.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271080017

0271080019

OCLC:

1080549833