| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Series |
Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 1
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Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. The rhetoric culture project / Stephen Tyler and Ivo Strecker -- 2. Precursors of rhetoric culture theory / Christian Meyer -- 3. Homo rhetoricus / Peter L. Oesterreich -- 4. Listening culture / Daniel M. Gross -- 5. Practice of rhetoric, rhetoric of practice / Vincenzo Cannada Bartoli -- 6. Chiastic thought and culture : a reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss / Boris Wiseman -- 7. When fair is foul and foul is fair : lessons from Macbeth / Anthony Paul -- 8. Rhetoric, truth, and the work of trope / Alan Rumsey -- 9. Figuration, a common ground of rhetoric and anthropology / Philippe-Joseph Salazar -- 10. Tropical foundations and foundational tropes of culture / James W. Fernandez -- 11. Convictions : embodied rhetorics of earnest belief / Michael Herzfeld -- 12. An epistemological query / Pierre Maranda -- 13. Beyond the unsaid : transcending language through language / Paul Friedrich -- 14. Future imperfect : imagining rhetorical culture theory / Robert Hariman. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Culture -- Semiotic models.
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Communication and culture.
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Language and culture.
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Rhetoric.
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rhetoric (discipline) |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Communication and culture |
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Culture -- Semiotic models |
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Language and culture |
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Rhetoric |
| Added Author |
Strecker, Ivo A., 1940- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpDRXD9HCpTK4bVFbP84q
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Tyler, Stephen A., 1932- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJq6WJK4pJYKWwHXYrryVC
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| Added Title |
Culture and rhetoric |
| Cover Title |
Culture + rhetoric |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Culture & rhetoric. New York : Berghahn Books, 2009 9786612627880 (DLC) 2009012995 |
| ISBN |
9781845459291 (electronic bk.) |
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1845459296 (electronic bk.) |
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9781845454630 (cloth) |
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1845454634 (cloth) |
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