Tropological Thought and Action : : Essays on the Poetics of Imagination /

Tropological Thought and Action : : Essays on the Poetics of Imagination / / ed. by Marko Živković, James W. Fernandez, Jamin Pelkey.

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bate, Bernard,
Beeman, William O.,
Carrithers, Michael,
Coleman, Steve,
Fernandez, James W.,
Leavitt, John,
Peebles, Gustav,
Pelkey, Jamin,
Pesmen, Dale,
Scoggin, Mary,
Strecker, Ivo,
Turner, Terence,
Zulaika, Joseba,
Živković, Marko,
HerausgeberIn:
Fernandez, James W.,
Pelkey, Jamin,
Živković, Marko,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic
  • CHAPTER 1 Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory
  • CHAPTER 2 A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas
  • CHAPTER 3 Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry
  • CHAPTER 4 On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins
  • CHAPTER 5 Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or “Witnessing a Shipwreck” German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future
  • CHAPTER 6 An Apologia for Filthy Lucre
  • CHAPTER 7 “Down the Garden Path” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding
  • CHAPTER 8 Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence
  • CHAPTER 9 Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England
  • CHAPTER 10 Irony’s Arrow Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture
  • CHAPTER 11 The Tropes of Music
  • CHAPTER 12 Tactics For Working Anyway
  • CHAPTER 13 Tropes, Frames, and Powers
  • CONCLUSION Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding
  • Index

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