Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life
Title:
Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life
Author:
Carrithers, Michael.
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Physical Description:
xi, 184 p.
Series:
Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2
Studies in rhetoric and culture ; v. 2.
Contents:
Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp -- Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers -- The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine -- Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele -- 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich -- The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey -- Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso -- Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron -- Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez.
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