Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life / / ed. by Michael Carrithers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, F. G.,; Basso, Ellen B.,; Biesele, Megan,; Carrithers, Michael,; Cintron, Ralph,; Fernandez, James W.,; Nerlich, Brigitte,; Nienkamp, Jean,; Weine, Stevan M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Carrithers, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (196 p.)

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments 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 contributors bring expertise from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology and communications studies, underlining the volume’s wider relevance as a reflection on the human condition.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Internal Rhetorics -- 2. Story Seeds and the Inchoate -- 3. The Diffuse in Testimonies -- 4. Medical Rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa -- 5. ‘As if Goya Was on Hand as a Marksman’ -- 6. The Palaestral Aspect of Rhetoric -- 7. Ordeals of Language -- 8. Inventions of Hyperbolic Culture -- 9. Rhetoric in the Moral Order -- Notes on Contributors -- Index