Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
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Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

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  2. English
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Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Internal Rhetorics: Constituting Selves in Diaries and Beyond
  8. 2. Story Seeds and the Inchoate
  9. 3. The Diffuse in Testimonies
  10. 4. Medical Rhetoric in the U.S - and Africa: The Oncologist as Charon
  11. 5. ‘As if Goya was on hand as a marksman’: Foot and Mouth Disease as a Rhetorical and Cultural Phenomenon
  12. 6. The Palaestral Aspect of Rhetoric
  13. 7. Ordeals of Language
  14. 8. Inventions of Hyperbolic Culture
  15. 9. Rhetoric in the Moral Order: A Critique of Tropological Approaches to Culture
  16. Notes on Contributors
  17. Index