The Homesick Phone Book
Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict
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2016
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3508-4 (ISBN)
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3508-4 (ISBN)
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Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Cynthia Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently.
Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In The Homesick Phone Book, author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently. Ultimately, The Homesick Phone Book demonstrates how scholars of rhetoric and writing studies can break their dependence on conventional argument and logic to discover what might be possible if we dive into and become lost within the very concepts and events that frighten and terrorize us.
Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In The Homesick Phone Book, author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently. Ultimately, The Homesick Phone Book demonstrates how scholars of rhetoric and writing studies can break their dependence on conventional argument and logic to discover what might be possible if we dive into and become lost within the very concepts and events that frighten and terrorize us.
Cynthia Haynes is a professor of English and the director of first-year composition at Clemson University. She is a coauthor of High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs and MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments, as well as articles in JAC, Enculturation, Pre/Text, and many other publications.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.10.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | Carbondale |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8093-3508-5 / 0809335085 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8093-3508-4 / 9780809335084 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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