Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

by Kevin Rutherford

Book Overview

A fascinating addition to rhetoric scholarship, Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things expands the scope of rhetorical situations beyond the familiar humanist triad of speaker-audience-purpose to an inclusive study of inanimate objects.

The fifteen essays in Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things persuasively overturn the stubborn assumption that objects are passive tools in the hands of objective human agents. Rhetoric has proved that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817359109
• ISBN13: 9780817359102
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"