A New Handbook of Rhetoric : : Inverting the Classical Vocabulary / / ed. by Michele Kennerly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Alford, Caddie,; Burg, Alessandra Von,; Firgens, Benjamin,; Geraths, Cory,; Irizarry, Anthony J.,; Kennerly, Michele,; Mifsud, Mari Lee,; Muckelbauer, John,; Myers, Bess R. H.,; Pfister, Damien Smith,; Rivers, Nathaniel A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kennerly, Michele,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Like every discipline, Rhetorical Studies relies on a technical vocabulary to convey specialized concepts, but few disciplines rely so deeply on a set of terms developed so long ago. Pathos, kairos, doxa, topos—these and others originate from the so-called classical world, which has conferred on them excessive authority. Without jettisoning these rhetorical terms altogether, this handbook addresses critiques of their ongoing relevance, explanatory power, and exclusionary effects.A New Handbook of Rhetoric inverts the terms of classical rhetoric by applying to them the alpha privative, a prefix that expresses absence. Adding the prefix α- to more than a dozen of the most important terms in the field, the contributors to this volume build a new vocabulary for rhetorical inquiry. Essays on apathy, akairos, adoxa, and atopos, among others, explore long-standing disciplinary habits, reveal the denials and privileges inherent in traditional rhetorical inquiry, and theorize new problems and methods. Using this vocabulary in an analysis of current politics, media, and technology, the essays illuminate aspects of contemporary culture that traditional rhetorical theory often overlooks.Innovative and groundbreaking, A New Handbook of Rhetoric at once draws on and unsettles ancient Greek rhetorical terms, opening new avenues for studying values, norms, and phenomena often stymied by the tradition.In addition to the editor, the contributors include Caddie Alford, Benjamin Firgens, Cory Geraths, Anthony J. Irizarry, Mari Lee Mifsud, John Muckelbauer, Bess R. H. Myers, Damien Smith Pfister, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Alessandra Von Burg.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note from the Editor -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Term Limits -- Escape Velocity -- Atechnē -- Asignification -- (Out of) Place -- Atopos -- Anostos -- Akairos -- (Not) Knowing for Sure -- Adoxa -- Aporia -- Agnostic -- (Not) Seeing It That Way -- Apathy -- Aphantasia -- Appendix: -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index