Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

by Michael Carrithers

Book Overview

Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resources...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857458000
• ISBN13: 9780857458001
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"