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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.