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Culture & rhetoric / edited by Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 1.
- Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Semiotic models.
- Culture.
- Communication and culture.
- Language and culture.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Other Title:
- Culture and rhetoric
- Culture + rhetoric
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their representations for what they ultimately are - rhetorical constructs. These senior, international scholars explore the complex and multifarious relationships between culture and rhetoric arguing that just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric. This intersection of rhetoric and culture constitutes the central theme of the first part of the book, while the second
- Contents:
- Ttile page-Culture & Rhetoric; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I-the Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture; Chapter 1-The Rhetoric Culture Project; Chapter 2-Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory; Chapter 3-Homo Rhetoricus; Chapter 4-Listening Culture; Chapter 5-Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice; Chapter 6-Chiastic Thought and Culture; Chapter 7-When Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair; Part II-Figuration-The Persuasive Power of Deeds and Tropes; Chapter 8-Rhetoric, Truth, and the Work of Trope; Chapter 9-Figuration-A Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology
- Chapter 10-Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of CultureChapter 11-Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief; Chapter 12-An Epostemological Query; Chapter 13-Beyond the Unsaid; Chapter 14-Future Imperfect; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627880
- 9780857456663
- 0857456660
- 9781282627888
- 1282627880
- 9781845459291
- 1845459296
- OCLC:
- 645100802
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