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Tropological Thought and Action Essays on the Poetics of Imagination.

From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Živković, Marko
Otros Autores: Pelkey, Jamin, Fernandez, James W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2021.
Colección:Studies in Rhetoric and Culture Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic
  • CHAPTER 1 Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory
  • CHAPTER 2 A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas
  • CHAPTER 3 Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry
  • CHAPTER 4 On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins
  • CHAPTER 5 Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or "Witnessing a Shipwreck" German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future
  • CHAPTER 6 An Apologia for Filthy Lucre
  • CHAPTER 7 "Down the Garden Path" On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of "Progress" in Understanding
  • CHAPTER 8 Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence
  • CHAPTER 9 Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England
  • CHAPTER 10 Irony's Arrow Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture
  • CHAPTER 11 The Tropes of Music
  • CHAPTER 12 Tactics For Working Anyway
  • CHAPTER 13 Tropes, Frames, and Powers
  • CONCLUSION Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding
  • Index