Breaking Up (At) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter

by D. Diane Davis and Associate Professor D. Diane Davis

Rhetoric and composition theory has shown a renewed interest in sophistic countertraditions, as seen in the work of such postphilosophers as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and H?l?ne Cixous, and of such rhetoricians as Susan Jarratt and Steven Mailloux. As D. Diane Davis traces today's theoretical interest to those countertraditions, she also sets her sights beyond them.

Davis takes a "third sophistics" approach, one that focuses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322293
• ISBN13: 9780809322299
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"