Seduction Sophistry And The Woman With The Rhetorical Figure

Download Seduction Sophistry And The Woman With The Rhetorical Figure full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Seduction Sophistry And The Woman With The Rhetorical Figure ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

Author : Michelle Ballif
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323333
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure by : Michelle Ballif

Download or read book Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure written by Michelle Ballif and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ballif questions why the profession wants to retain these beliefs in the face of vociferous arguments from "new rhetorics" that the discipline no longer posits a foundational self or truth, and in the face of the poststructuralist critique, which has demonstrated that founding truth is always accomplished by first positing and then negating an "other." As an alternative to this negative and violent rhetorical process, Ballif suggests a turn to sophistry as embodied in the figure of Woman, one with the power to seduce us (literally, to lead astray) from our truth and our demand for it."--BOOK JACKET.

Jean Baudrillard

Author : Brian Gogan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336251
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Jean Baudrillard by : Brian Gogan

Download or read book Jean Baudrillard written by Brian Gogan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work is the first book-length treatment of Jean Baudrillard as a rhetorical theorist"--

Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric

Author : Bruce McComiskey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323975
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric by : Bruce McComiskey

Download or read book Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric written by Bruce McComiskey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey achieves three rhetorical goals: he treats a single sophist's rhetorical technê (art) in the context of the intellectual upheavals of fifth-century bce Greece, thus avoiding the problem of generalizing about a disparate group of individuals; he argues that we must abandon Platonic assumptions regarding the sophists in general and Gorgias in particular, opting instead for a holistic reading of the Gorgianic fragments; and he reexamines the practice of appropriating sophistic doctrines, particularly those of Gorgias, in light of the new interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric offered in this book. In the first two chapters, McComiskey deals with a misconception based on selective and Platonic readings of the extant fragments: that Gorgias's rhetorical technê involves the deceptive practice of manipulating public opinion. This popular and ultimately misleading interpretation of Gorgianic doctrines has been the basis for many neosophistic appropriations. The final three chapters deal with the nature and scope of neosophistic rhetoric in light of the non-Platonic and holistic interpretation of Gorgianic rhetoric McComiskey postulates in his opening chapters. He concludes by examining the future of communication studies to discover what roles neosophistic doctrines might play in the twenty-first century. McComiskey also provides a selective bibliography of scholarship on sophistic rhetoric and philosophy in English since 1900.

The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric

Author : Lynée Lewis Gaillet
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826218687
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric by : Lynée Lewis Gaillet

Download or read book The Present State of Scholarship in the History of Rhetoric written by Lynée Lewis Gaillet and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces new scholars to interdisciplinary research by utilizing bibliographical surveys of both primary and secondary works that address the history of rhetoric, from the Classical period to the 21st century.

Figures of Entanglement

Author : Christopher N. Gamble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000426343
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Figures of Entanglement by : Christopher N. Gamble

Download or read book Figures of Entanglement written by Christopher N. Gamble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent and ongoing "new materialisms" scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad. The first volume devoted to bringing Barad’s work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of "entanglement", which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a "figure of entanglement" in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad’s theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx’s notion of exchange, and the "prehistoric" emergence of human consciousness. With a new foreword by the editors and afterword by Laurie E. Gries, this collection is otherwise reprinted from the 2016 "Figures of Entanglement" special issue of the journal Review of Communication.

Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric

Author : Lydia McDermott
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498513409
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric by : Lydia McDermott

Download or read book Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric written by Lydia McDermott and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liminal Bodies, Reproductive Health, and Feminist Rhetoric posits rhetoric and gynecology as sister discourses. While rhetoric has been historically concerned with the regulation of the productive male body, gynecology has been concerned with the discipline of the female reproductive body. Lydia M. McDermott examines these sister discourses by tracing key narrative moments in the development of thought about sexed bodies and about rhetorical discourse, from classical myth and natural philosophy to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century decline of midwifery and the rise of scientific writing on the reproductive body. Liminal Bodies offers a metaphorical method of invention and criticism, “sonogram,” that emphasizes the voices and bodies that have been left on the margins of the dominant histories of rhetoric.

The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication

Author : Bonnie J. Dow
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 145221476X
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication by : Bonnie J. Dow

Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication written by Bonnie J. Dow and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Handbook of Gender and Communication is a vital resource for those seeking to explore the complex interactions of gender and communication. Editors Bonnie J. Dow and Julia T. Wood, together with an illustrious group of contributors, review and evaluate the state of the gender and communication field through the discussion of existing theories and research, as well as through identification of important directions for future scholarship. The first of its kind, this Handbook examines the primary contexts in which gender and communication are shaped, reflected, and expressed: interpersonal, organizational, rhetoric, media, and intercultural/global.

Style

Author : Brian Ray
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602356157
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Style by : Brian Ray

Download or read book Style written by Brian Ray and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing. The theories, research methods, and pedagogies covered here offer a conception of style as more than decoration or correctness—views that are still prevalent in many college settings as well as in public discourse.

The Public Work of Rhetoric

Author : John M. Ackerman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611173043
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Public Work of Rhetoric by : John M. Ackerman

Download or read book The Public Work of Rhetoric written by John M. Ackerman and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Work of Rhetoric presents the art of rhetorical techné as a contemporary praxis for civic engagement and social change, which is necessarily inclusive of people inside and outside the academy. In this provocative call to action, editors John M. Ackerman and David J. Coogan, along with seventeen other accomplished contributors, offer case studies and criticism on the rhetorical practices of citizen-scholars pursuing democratic ideals in diverse civic communities—with partnerships across a range of media, institutions, exigencies, and discourses. Challenging conventional research methodologies and the traditional insularity of higher education, these essays argue that civic engagement as a rhetorical act requires critical attention to our notoriously veiled identity in public life, to our uneasy affiliation with democracy as a public virtue, and to the transcendent powers of discourse and ideology. This can be accomplished, the contributors argue, by building on the compatible traditions of materialist rhetoric and community literacy, two vestiges of rhetoric's dual citizenship in the fields of communication and English. This approach expresses a collective desire in rhetoric for more politically responsive scholarship, more visible impact in public life, and more access to the critical spaces between universities and their communities.

Rhetoric's Earthly Realm

Author : Bernard Alan Miller
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602352119
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rhetoric's Earthly Realm by : Bernard Alan Miller

Download or read book Rhetoric's Earthly Realm written by Bernard Alan Miller and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric. For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language. In RHETORIC’S EARTHLY REALM: HEIDEGGER, SOPHISTRY, AND THE GORGIAN KAIROS, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly conceived theory of rhetoric, one concerned with “earth” in its Heideggerian aspect, complex and multifaceted, at the root of a phenomenology placing the focus on earth as the power of Being itself, whereby it is manifest purely as language.

Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics

Author : Lindal Buchanan
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602351376
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics by : Lindal Buchanan

Download or read book Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics written by Lindal Buchanan and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies gathers significant, oft-cited scholarship about feminism and rhetoric into one convenient volume. Essays examine the formation of the vibrant and growing field of feminist rhetoric; feminist historiographic research methods and methodologies; and women’s distinct sites, genres, and styles of rhetoric. The book’s most innovative and pedagogically useful feature is its presentation of controversies in the form of case studies, each consisting of exchanges between or among scholars about significant questions.

Responding to the Sacred

Author : Michael Bernard-Donals
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089733
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Responding to the Sacred by : Michael Bernard-Donals

Download or read book Responding to the Sacred written by Michael Bernard-Donals and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With language we name and define all things, and by studying our use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred, however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by language. The sacred thus reveals limitations of rhetoric. Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The contributors engage with religious rhetorics—Jewish, Jesuit, Buddhist, pagan—as well as rationalist, scientific, and postmodern rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the Platonic tradition, Thomas Hobbes’s and Walter Benjamin’s accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Hélène Cixous’s sacred passages and passwords. From these studies, new definitions of the sacred emerge—along with new rhetorical practices for engaging with the sacred. This book provides insight into the relation of rhetoric and the sacred, showing the capacity of rhetoric to study the ineffable but also shedding light on the boundaries between them. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif, Jean Bessette, Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M. Gross, Kevin Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R. Martel, Jodie Nicotra, Ned O’Gorman, and Brooke Rollins.

How to Belong

Author : Belinda A. Stillion Southard
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271082933
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How to Belong by : Belinda A. Stillion Southard

Download or read book How to Belong written by Belinda A. Stillion Southard and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Belong, Belinda Stillion Southard examines how women leaders throughout the world have asserted their rhetorical agency in troubling economic, social, and political conditions. Rather than utilizing the concept of citizenship to bolster political influence, the women in the case studies presented here rely on the power of relationships to create a more habitable world. With the rise of global capitalism, many nation-states that have profited from invigorated flows of capital have also responded to the threat of increased human mobility by heightening national citizenship’s exclusionary power. Through a series of case studies that include women grassroots protesters, a woman president, and a woman United Nations director, Stillion Southard analyzes several examples of women, all as embodied subjects in a particular transnational context, pushing back against this often violent rise in nationalist rhetoric. While scholars have typically used the concept of citizenship to explain what it means to belong, Stillion Southard instead shows how these women have reimagined belonging in ways that have enabled them to create national, regional, and global communities. As part of a broader conversation centered on exposing the violence of national citizenship and proposing ways of rejecting that violence, this book seeks to provide answers through the powerful rhetorical practices of resilient and inspiring women who have successfully negotiated what it means to belong, to be included, and to enact change beyond the boundaries of citizenship.

Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age

Author : Jeff Pruchnic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135022658
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age by : Jeff Pruchnic

Download or read book Rhetoric and Ethics in the Cybernetic Age written by Jeff Pruchnic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become increasingly difficult to ignore the ways that the centrality of new media and technologies — from the global networking of information systems and social media to new possibilities for altering human genetics — seem to make obsolete our traditional ways of thinking about ethics and persuasive communication inherited from earlier humanist paradigms. This book argues that rather than devoting our critical energies towards critiquing humanist touchstones, we should instead examine the ways in which media and technologies have always worked as crucial cultural forces in shaping ethics and rhetoric. Pruchnic combines this historical itinerary with critical interrogations of diverse cultural and technological sites — the logic of video games and artificial intelligence, the ethics of life extension in contemporary medicine, the transition to computer-automated trading in world stock markets, the state of critical theory in the contemporary humanities — along with innovative analyses of the works of such figures as the Greek Sophists, Kenneth Burke, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Gilles Deleuze. This book argues that our best strategies for crafting persuasive communication and producing ethical relations between individuals will be those that creatively replicate and appropriate, rather than resist, the logics of dominant forms of media and technology.

Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric

Author : Michelle Ballif
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809332116
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric by : Michelle Ballif

Download or read book Theorizing Histories of Rhetoric written by Michelle Ballif and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the decades of the 1980s and 1990s, historians of rhetoric, composition, and communication vociferously theorized historiographical motivations and methodologies for writing histories in their fields. After this fertile period of rich, contested, and impassioned theorization, scholars busily undertook the composition of numerous historical works, complicating master narratives and recovering silenced voices and rhetorical practices. Yet, though historians in these fields have gone about the business of writing histories, the discussion of theorization has been quiet. In this welcome volume, fifteen scholars consider, once again, the theory of historiography, asking difficult questions about the purposes and methodologies of writing histories of rhetoric, broadly defined, and questioning what it means, what it should mean, what it could mean to write histories of rhetoric, composition, and communication. The topics addressed include the privileging of the literary and the textual over material artifacts as prime sources of evidence in the study of classical rhetoric, the use of rhetorical hermeneutics as a methodology for interpreting past practices, the investigation of feminist methodologies that do not fit into the dominant modes of feminist historiographical work and the examination of archives with a queer eye to better construct nondiscriminatory narratives. Contributors also explore the value of approaching historiography through the lenses of jazz improvisation and complexity theory, and the historiographical method of writing the future in ways that refigure our relationships to time and to ourselves. Consistently thoughtful and carefully argued, these essays successfully revive the discussion of historiography in rhetoric, inspiring fresh avenues of exploration in the field.

Rhetoric and Composition

Author : Steven Lynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521821118
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Composition by : Steven Lynn

Download or read book Rhetoric and Composition written by Steven Lynn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to teaching and studying rhetoric and composition.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science

Author : David R. Gruber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351207814
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science by : David R. Gruber

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science written by David R. Gruber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science provides a state-of-the-art volume on the language of scientific processes and communications. This book offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science, as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating discussions about future directions within the field. Featuring original contributions from an international range of renowned scholars, as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research, this handbook: identifies common objects of inquiry across the areas of rhetoric, sociolinguistics, communication studies, science and technology studies, and public understanding of science covers the four key themes of power, pedagogy, public engagement, and materiality in relation to the study of scientific language and its development uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to demonstrate how humanities and social science scholars can go about studying science details the meaning and purpose of socio-cultural approaches to science, including the impact of new media technologies analyses the history of the field and how it positions itself in relation to other areas of study Ushering the study of language and science toward a more interdisciplinary, diverse, communal and ecological future, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Science is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.