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Literature, rhetoric and values : selected proceedings of a conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011 /

The essays in this collection combine cutting-edge literary and rhetorical scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting such issues as torture, genocide, environmental apocalypse, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. First delivered as part of the vibrant ideas exch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Literature, Rhetoric and Values Conference University of Waterloo
Otros Autores: Hulan, Shelley, McArthur, Murray, 1953-, Harris, Randy Allen
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; chapter one
  • rhetorics of loss: values of absence and affect in frost and dickinson; chapter two
  • david shields's reality hunger and the value of textual recycling; chapter three
  • a rhetoric of contingency and analytic humanism in don delillo's white noise; chapter four
  • living in the shadow of radicalism: fundamentalist identities in monica ali's brick lane (2003) and in elena chudinova's 2048: the mosque of notre dame de paris (2005); chapter five
  • children of men on the road to nowhere: the inopinatum of hope.
  • Chapter six
  • poetry, garbage, gift: assembling a scrap poetics in contemporary north american poetrychapter seven
  • the duty of memory in j. p. stassen's deogratias: a tale of rwanda and rupert bazambanza's smile through the tears; chapter eight
  • new genres, now and then; chapter nine
  • how kenneth burke can explain hannah duston's appeal (and other things); chapter ten
  • ""now here's what really happened"": the rhetoric of authentic experience in war memoir; chapter eleven
  • black logos: rhetoric and information warfare; chapter twelve
  • coercive information: rhetorics of digital torture.
  • Chapter thirteen
  • ""imitation of life"": nabokov's pale fire and the construction of augustinian ethoscontributors; index of names.