Religious Dialectics of Pain and Imagination

This book explores the possibility of a "liberatory postmodern rhetoric" or, alternatively, a "postmodern liberation rhetoric." The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain?
After a foray into key terms-rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion-the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador.

About the author

Bradford T. Stull is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-East.

Product details

• Authors: Bradford T Stull, Bradford T. Stull
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.1994
• EAN: 9780791420829
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2082-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Series: Suny Series in Rhetoric and Th; Suny Series in Rhetoric and Th; Suny Rhetoric and Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works