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Author : Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438424842
Author : Ewa P?onowska Ziarek
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791427110
'This book makes a significant and needed contribution to post-structural philosophy and literary theory. In this impressive analysis that delicately weaves together philosophical and literary texts, Ewa Ziarek powerfully and persuasively demonstrates that the rhetoric of the failure of traditional subject-centered rationality does not lead to nihilism or nominalism.'-Kelly Oliver, University of Texas at Austin
Author : David M. Ball
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810131132
From Herman Melville’s claim that “failure is the true test of greatness” to Henry Adams’s self-identification with the “mortifying failure in [his] long education” and William Faulkner’s eagerness to be judged by his “splendid failure to do the impossible,” the rhetoric of failure has served as a master trope of modernist American literary expression. David Ball’s magisterial study addresses the fundamental questions of language, meaning, and authority that run counter to well-rehearsed claims of American innocence and positivity, beginning with the American Renaissance and extending into modernist and contemporary literature. The rhetoric of failure was used at various times to engage artistic ambition, the arrival of advanced capitalism, and a rapidly changing culture, not to mention sheer exhaustion. False Starts locates a lively narrative running through American literature that consequently queries assumptions about the development of modernism in the United States.
Author : Beverly A. Sauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135654863
The crash of an Amtrak train near Baltimore, the collapse of the Hyatt hotel in Kansas City, the incident at Three Mile Island, and other large-scale technological disasters have provided powerful examples of the ways that communication practices influence the events and decisions that precipitate a disaster. These examples have raised ethical questions about the responsibility of writers within agencies, epistemological questions about the nature of representation in science, and rhetorical questions about the nature of expertise and experience as grounds for judgments about risk. In The Rhetoric of Risk: Technical Documentation in Hazardous Environments, author Beverly Sauer examines how the dynamic uncertainty of the material environment affects communication in large regulatory industries. Sauer's analysis focuses specifically on mine safety, which provides a rich technical and historical context where problems of rhetorical agency, narrative, and the negotiation of meaning have visible and tragic outcomes. But the questions Sauer asks have larger implication for risk and safety: How does writing function in large regulatory industries? What can we learn from experience? Why is this experience so difficult to capture in writing? What information is lost when agencies rely on written documentation alone? Given the uncertainties, how can we work to improve communication in hazardous and uncertain environments? By exploring how individuals make sense of the material, technical, and institutional indeterminancies of their work in speech and gesture, The Rhetoric of Risk helps communicators rethink their frequently unquestioned assumptions about workplace discourse and the role of writers in hazardous worksites. It is intended for scholars and students in technical writing and communication, rhetoric, risk analysis and risk communication, as well as a wide range of engineering and technical fields concerned with risk, safety, and uncertainty.
Author : James L. Golden
Publisher : Kendall Hunt
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0787299677
Author : Justin S. Vaughn,Jennifer Mercieca
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781623490423
Campaign rhetoric helps candidates to get elected, but its effects last well beyond the counting of the ballots; this was perhaps never truer than in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Did Obama create such high expectations that they actually hindered his ability to enact his agenda? Should we judge his performance by the scale of the expectations his rhetoric generated, or against some other standard? The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidency grapples with these and other important questions. Barack Obama’s election seemed to many to fulfill Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the “long arc of the moral universe . . . bending toward justice.” And after the terrorism, war, and economic downturn of the previous decade, candidate Obama’s rhetoric cast broad visions of a change in the direction of American life. In these and other ways, the election of 2008 presented an especially strong example of creating expectations that would shape the public’s views of the incoming administration. The public’s high expectations, in turn, become a part of any president’s burden upon assuming office. The interdisciplinary scholars who have contributed to this volume focus their analysis upon three kinds of presidential burdens: institutional burdens (specific to the office of the presidency); contextual burdens (specific to the historical moment within which the president assumes office); and personal burdens (specific to the individual who becomes president).
Author : Robert H. O'Connell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004275874
This volume describes how the rhetorical devices used in Judges inspire its readers to support a divinely appointed Judahite king who endorses the deuteronomic agenda to rid the land of foreigners, to maintain inter-tribal loyalty to YHWH's cult, and to uphold social justice. Matters of rhetorical concern interpreted here include the superimposed cycle-motif and tribal-political schemata, concerns reflected in the plot-layers of each hero story, the force of narrative analogy for characterization, the strategy of entrapment which foreshadows portrayals of Saul and David in 1 Samuel, and the relation between Judges' implied situation of composition and its compiler's intention. In addition to offering new insights into the rhetorical strategy of the Judges compiler, this book illustrates a new method for understanding how plot-layered stories work.
Author : Sean McDevitt
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798386279912
The year is 1983, and "Satanic panic" is raging in America like a wildfire; religious zealots see the devil in everything from household products to rock 'n roll. Three awkward and isolated Southern California teens spend their idle time with seances and harmless roleplay- but the fun stops when they realize that they're not alone in their fantasy worlds, and not in a good way. THE RHETORIC OF FAILURE, an 80s supernatural thriller, is a terrifying novella from author Sean McDevitt. (This paperback edition includes the short story, DEFACE THE MONA LISA.)
Author : Todd Snyder
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786478026
In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students and to address how these cultural roadblocks make transitioning into college difficult. Throughout the book, the author draws upon his personal experiences as a first-generation college student from a small coalmining town in rural West Virginia. Both scholarly and personal, the book blends critical theory, ethnographic research, and personal narrative to demonstrate how family work histories and community expectations both shape and limit the academic goals of potential Appalachian college students.
Author : Mark Allan Steiner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567025623
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Author : James L. Kastely
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226278629
J. Kastely makes the case for Plato’s Republic as a self-consciously rhetorical work exploring a fundamental problem for philosophy. He argues that the Republic is a mimetic poem responding to a discursive crisis within democracy, namely, the absence of a genuinely persuasive defense of justice. Understanding the Republic as a work that raises persuasion as a key problem for philosophy requires us to rethink Plato’s understanding of the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. This is a major and provocative reconsideration of the relationship of philosophy and rhetoric and raises issues central to a wide range of scholarly fields, from political theory to psychology to aesthetics.
Author : Sara Suleri Goodyear
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226779836
Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a series of guilty transactions between two cultures that are equally evasive and uncertain of their own authority. "A dense, witty, and richly allusive book . . . an extremely valuable contribution to postcolonial cultural studies as well as to the whole area of literary criticism."—Jean Sudrann, Choice
Author : Sara Suleri
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anglo-Indian literature
ISBN : 0143032836
The Most Brilliant Contribution To Postcolonial Criticism Since Edward Said S Orientalism & A Masterpiece Of Calm, Well-Thought-Out, Cogent And Inspiring Analysis Jane Marcus, Cuny Graduate Center And The City University Of New York Sara Suleri S The Rhetoric Of English India Is A Powerful Challenge To The Obsession With Otherness That Is A Trademark Of Colonial Studies. Where Other Scholars Tend To Observe A Strict Separation Between Works By Western And Non-Western Writers And Between Ruling And Subject Races, Suleri Reconstructs A Narrative In Which English And Indian Idioms Play With, And Against, Each Other. By Studying A Wide Range Of Materials, From The Writings Of Burke To The Travel Logs Of Nineteenth-Century Women Such As Fanny Parkes And Harriet Tytler To The Fiction Of Kipling, Forster, Naipaul And Rushdie, Suleri Deftly Reveals The Complicity That Always Operates In Colonial Literature. In Doing So, Suleri Succeeds Not Only In Challenging The Standard Chronology Of Imperial History, But Also In Fundamentally Recasting Contemporary Discourse On The Theories Of Cultural Empowerment.
Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664221777
This work casts new light on the genre, function, and composition of Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. Margaret Mitchell thoroughly documents her argument that First Corinthians was a single letter, not a combination of fragments, whose aim was to persuade the Corinthian Christian community to become unified.
Author : Michael Syrotinski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300104776
This volume includes topics on Jean Paulhan as editor and critic, rhetoric and what really happens, rhetoric and politics, and the power of literature, plus two texts by Jean Paulhan.