Description |
1 online resource (xi, 184 pages) |
Series |
Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2 |
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Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2.
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Contents |
Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp -- Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers -- The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine -- Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele -- 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich -- The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey -- Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso -- Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron -- Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez |
Summary |
Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes in relation to events and emergencies that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources for succeeding generations. Several of the contributions show how rhetorical cultural forms can themselves create emergencies. The con |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Culture
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Social evolution.
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Rhetoric
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Life.
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Social problems.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Cultural Evolution
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Social Problems
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social issues.
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philosophical anthropology.
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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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Culture
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Life
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Philosophical anthropology
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Rhetoric
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Social evolution
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Social problems
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Carrithers, Michael.
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ISBN |
9781845459246 |
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1845459245 |
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