Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life
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Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life
(Studies in rhetoric and culture, v. 2)
Berghahn Books, 2009
- : hardback
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  Toyama
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
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  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Inventions of hyperbolic culture
Ralph Cintron
Chapter 2. Medical rhetoric in the US and Africa: the oncologist as Charon
Megan Biesele
Chapter 3. The diffuse in testimonies
Stevan Weine
Chapter 4. Internal rhetorics: Constituting selves in diaries and beyond
Jein Nienkamp
Chapter 5. Ordeals of language
Ellen Basso
Chapter 6. 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman': Foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon
Brigitte Nerlich
Chapter 7. Story seeds and the Inchoate
Michael Carrithers
Chapter 8. The palaestral aspect of rhetoric
F.G. Bailey
Chapter 9. Rhetoric in the moral order: a critique of tropological approaches to culture
James Fernandez
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
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