Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life /

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

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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, dis...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (196 p.)
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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

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