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.
Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Inventions of hyperbolic culture
Ralph Cintron
Chapter 2. Medical rhetoric in the US and Africa: the oncologist as Charon
Megan Biesele
Chapter 3. The diffuse in testimonies
Stevan Weine
Chapter 4. Internal rhetorics: Constituting selves in diaries and beyond
Jein Nienkamp
Chapter 5. Ordeals of language
Ellen Basso
Chapter 6. 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman': Foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon
Brigitte Nerlich
Chapter 7. Story seeds and the Inchoate
Michael Carrithers
Chapter 8. The palaestral aspect of rhetoric
F.G. Bailey
Chapter 9. Rhetoric in the moral order: a critique of tropological approaches to culture
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