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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

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



James Fernandez







Notes on contributors



Bibliography



Index