The Rhetoric Of Death

Author : Judith Rock
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101444122

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The Rhetoric of Death by Judith Rock Pdf

An "amazing"* debut historical novel (*Ariana Franklin, national betselling author of Grave Goods) Paris, 1686: When The Bishop of Marseilles discovers that his young cousin Charles du Luc, former soldier and half-fledged Jesuit, has been helping heretics escape the king's dragoons, the bishop sends him far away-to Paris, where Charles is assigned to assist in teaching rhetoric and directing dance at the prestigious college of Louis le Grand. Charles quickly embraces his new life and responsibilities. But on his first day, the school's star dancer disappears from rehearsal, and the next day another student is run down in the street. When the dancer's body is found under the worst possible circumstances, Charles is determined to find the killer in spite of being ordered to leave the investigation.

Author : Ben Voth
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739182062

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The Rhetoric of Genocide by Ben Voth Pdf

Genocide represents one of the deadliest scourges of the human experience. Communication practices provide the key missing ingredient toward preventing and ending this intensely symbolic activity. The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make this tragedy probable, and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great evil. Careful analysis of practical historical figures, such as the great debater James Farmer Jr., along with empirical policy successes in places such as Liberia provide a communication-based template for ridding the world of genocide in the twenty-first century.

Author : Ronald Schleifer
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252061381

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Rhetoric and Death by Ronald Schleifer Pdf

Author : Douglas Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474250979

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Death, Ritual and Belief by Douglas Davies Pdf

Death, Ritual and Belief, now in its third edition, explores many important issues related to death and dying, from a religious studies perspective, including anthropology and sociology. Using the motif of 'words against death' it depicts human responses to grief by surveying the many ways in which people have not let death have the last word, not simply in terms of funeral rites but also in memorials, graves, and in ideas of ancestors, souls, gods, reincarnation and resurrection, whether in the great religious traditions of the world or in more local customs. He also examines bereavement and grief, experiences of the presence of dead, near-death experiences, pet-death and the symbolic death played out in religious rites. Updated chapters have taken into account new research and include additional topics in this new edition, notably assisted dying, terrorism, green burial, material culture, death online, and the emergence of Death Studies as a distinctive field. Case studies range from Anders Breivik in Norway, to the Princess of Wales, and to the Rapture in the USA. A new perspective is also brought to his account of grief theories. Providing an introduction to key authors and authorities on death beliefs, bereavement, grief and ritual-symbolism, Death, Ritual and Belief is an authoritative guide to the perspectives of major religious and secular worldviews.

Author : H. Mack Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Japanese poetry
ISBN : 1557291845

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The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan by H. Mack Horton Pdf

"Socho's Death of Sogi and Kikaku's Death of Master Basho provide information about iconic figures of premodern Japanese literature and their disciples, while themselves manifesting stylistic accomplishment. This book contains translations of both death accounts and introductions to the poets' lives, times, and works"--

Author : Vernon Hyde Minor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521843413

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The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste by Vernon Hyde Minor Pdf

This book describes the waning days of the baroque.

Author : Douglas Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441112798

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Death, Ritual, and Belief by Douglas Davies Pdf

Describing a great variety of funeral ritual from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures not only cope with corpses but also create an added value for living through the encouragement of afterlife beliefs. The explosion of interest in death in recent years reflects the key theme of this book - the rhetoric of death - the way cultures use the most potent weapon of words to bring new power to life. This new edition is one third longer than the original with new material on the death of Jesus, the most theorized death ever which offers a useful case study for students. There is also empirical material from contemporary/recent events such as the death of Diana and an expanded section on theories of grief which will make the book more attractive to death counsellors.

Author : Outi Hakola
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Death in motion pictures
ISBN : 178320379X

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Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films by Outi Hakola Pdf

Zombies, vampires, and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences’ hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here, Outi Hakola investigates the ways in which American living-dead films have addressed death through different narrative and rhetorical solutions during the twentieth century. She focuses on films from the 1930s, including Dracula, The Mummy, and White Zombie, films of the 1950s and 1960s such as Night of the Living Dead and The Return of Dracula, and more recent fare like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Mummy, and Resident Evil. Ultimately, the book succeeds in framing the tradition of living dead films, discussing the cinematic processes of addressing the films’ viewers, and analyzing the films’ socio-cultural negotiation with death in this specific genre.

Author : Tina Pippin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725294189

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Death and Desire by Tina Pippin Pdf

This innovative study of the use of gender in the Apocalypse of John pushes against the boundaries of feminist biblical interpretation. Based on sociopolitical and literary readings of texts, it presents a challenging new way of reading the Apocalypse. Using the concept of catharsis, Tina Pippin focuses on two themes central to the Apocalypse—death and desire. She examines the role of the female in fantastic literature and reviews the social construction of gender and of the female body. In this interdisciplinary investigation, Pippin incorporates fantasy theory and the function of the female in the fantastic to expose the Apocalypse’s ambiguous representation of women.

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375703836

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This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Author : Judy Z. Segal
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809386260

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Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine by Judy Z. Segal Pdf

Assessing rhetorical principles of contemporary health issues Hypochondriacs are vulnerable to media hype, anorexics are susceptible to public scrutiny, and migraine sufferers are tainted with the history of the “migraine personality,” maintains rhetorical theorist Judy Z. Segal. All are influenced by the power of persuasion. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine explores persistent health conditions that resist conventional medical solutions. Using a range of rhetorical principles, Segal analyzes how patients and their illnesses are formed within the physician/patient relationship. The intractable problem of a patient’s rejection of a doctor’s advice, says Segal, can be considered a rhetorical failure—a failure of persuasion. Examining the discourse of medicine through case studies, applications, and analyses, Segal illustrates how illnesses are described in ways that limit patients’ choices and satisfaction. She also illuminates psychiatric conditions, infectious diseases, genetic testing, and cosmetic surgeries through the lens of rhetorical theory. Health and the Rhetoric of Medicine bridges critical analysis for scholarly, professional, and lay audiences. Segal highlights the persuasive element in diagnosis, health policy, illness experience, and illness narratives. She also addresses questions of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, the role of health information in creating the “worried well” and problems of trust and expertise in physician/patient relationships. A useful resource for critical common sense in everyday life, the text provides an effective examination of a society increasingly influenced by the rhetoric of health and medicine.

Author : Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814214320

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Apocalypse Man by Casey Ryan Kelly Pdf

"Examines white masculine victimhood by looking at the rhetoric of gender-motivated mass shooters, white supremacists, online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and doomsday preppers, gun culture and political rallies, and political demagogues"-Provided by publisher"--

Author : Donovan J. Ochs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0872498859

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Consolatory Rhetoric by Donovan J. Ochs Pdf

Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort communities afflicted by the death of one of their members. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written texts, Donovan Ochs broadens the traditional focus to consider non-verbal symbols as well as action and object languages. Ochs demonstrates that non-discursive dimensions of Greco-Roman burial rites held a place of particular persuasive significance in consoling the populace and he attributes funeral customs practiced in contemporary western civilization to the legacy left by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

Author : Beatrice Martina Guenther
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791430235

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The Poetics of Death by Beatrice Martina Guenther Pdf

Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.

Author : Megan Eatman
Publisher : Rhetoric and Materiality
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814214347

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Ecologies of Harm by Megan Eatman Pdf

Examines lynching, capital punishment, and torture to investigate how rhetoric and violence work together to sustain inhospitable spaces and create challenges for antiviolence work.