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Literature, rhetoric and values : selected proceedings of a conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011 / edited by Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur and Randy Allen Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference (2011 : University of Waterloo), issuing body.
- Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Values in literature--Congresses.
- Values in literature.
- Moral conditions in literature--Congresses.
- Moral conditions in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this collection combine cutting-edge literary and rhetorical scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting such issues as torture, genocide, environmental apocalypse, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. First delivered as part of the vibrant ideas exchange of an international conference, they are the product of rigorous selection and review undertaken with an emphasis on their complementarity. The authors include established scholars such as gr...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - RHETORICS OF LOSS: VALUES OF ABSENCE AND AFFECT IN FROST AND DICKINSON; CHAPTER TWO - DAVID SHIELDS'S REALITY HUNGER AND THE VALUE OF TEXTUAL RECYCLING; CHAPTER THREE - A RHETORIC OF CONTINGENCY AND ANALYTIC HUMANISM IN DON DELILLO'S WHITE NOISE; CHAPTER FOUR - LIVING IN THE SHADOW OF RADICALISM: FUNDAMENTALIST IDENTITIES IN MONICA ALI'S BRICK LANE (2003) AND IN ELENA CHUDINOVA'S 2048: THE MOSQUE OF NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (2005); CHAPTER FIVE - CHILDREN OF MEN ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE: THE INOPINATUM OF HOPE
- CHAPTER SIX - POETRY, GARBAGE, GIFT: ASSEMBLING A SCRAP POETICS IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN POETRYCHAPTER SEVEN - THE DUTY OF MEMORY IN J. P. STASSEN'S DEOGRATIAS: A TALE OF RWANDA AND RUPERT BAZAMBANZA'S SMILE THROUGH THE TEARS; CHAPTER EIGHT - NEW GENRES, NOW AND THEN; CHAPTER NINE - HOW KENNETH BURKE CAN EXPLAIN HANNAH DUSTON'S APPEAL (AND OTHER THINGS); CHAPTER TEN - ""NOW HERE'S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED"": THE RHETORIC OF AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCE IN WAR MEMOIR; CHAPTER ELEVEN - BLACK LOGOS: RHETORIC AND INFORMATION WARFARE; CHAPTER TWELVE - COERCIVE INFORMATION: RHETORICS OF DIGITAL TORTURE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ""IMITATION OF LIFE"": NABOKOV'S PALE FIRE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF AUGUSTINIAN ETHOSCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX OF NAMES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-6506-0
- OCLC:
- 884726021
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