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Conference Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference (2011 : University of Waterloo)

Title 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.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 261 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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 ...
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Subject Values in literature -- Congresses.
Values in literature.
Moral conditions in literature -- Congresses.
Moral conditions in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Other Form: Print version: Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference (2011 : University of Waterloo). Literature, rhetoric and values 9781443841757 (DLC) 2013376178 (OCoLC)851286064
ISBN 9781443865067 (electronic book)
1443865060 (electronic book)
9781443841757
1443841757