After Empire: Myth, Rhetoric, and Democratic Revival

by Oscar Giner and Robert L. Ivie

This book probes the mythic underpinnings of U.S. war culture, asking how myth can be reconfigured to foster a discourse more conducive to a culture of peace. It breaks with an imperial mindset of endless warfare and places myth's creative potential into productive relationship with rhetoric's democratic vocation to foster an attitude of tolerance and interdependence and resist the violence of alienation. Drawing on the archetype of coyote and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1636675484
• ISBN13: 9781636675480
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"