Toward a rhetoric of insult /

From high school cafeterias to the floor of Congress, insult is a truly universal and ubiquitous cultural practice with a long and earthy history. And yet, this most human of human behaviors has rarely been the subject of organized and comprehensive attention--until Toward a Rhetoric of Insult. View...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conley, Thomas M., 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Temas:
Invective.
Rhetoric.
Invectives.
Rhétorique.
rhetoric (discipline)
HUMOR > Form > Parodies.
Invective
Rhetoric
Belediging.
Retorica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The range of insult
  • Terms of abuse: the lexical approach
  • Beyond the lexicon
  • Non-verbal "terms"
  • The problem of the intrinsic
  • Traditional principles of insult
  • Sex, lies, and rhetorical community
  • All those nauseous epigrams of Martial
  • The domestication of Sir John Falstaff
  • "i shall taunt you a second time-a!": Monty Python
  • Just add a dash of theology
  • Lines and storylines
  • Doing the dozens
  • Mind your manners
  • Insults as "rhetoric"
  • Beyond "traditional" rhetoric
  • The paradox of insult
  • The economics of shame
  • Maintaining vs. interrogating hierarchies
  • Enforcing "civility"
  • The aesthetic angle
  • Ad bellum purificandum?
  • A parting shot.

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