Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things

Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.

About the author

Scot Barnett is an assistant professor of English at Indiana University.

Casey Boyle is an assistant professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

Argues that the field of rhetoric's recent attention to material objects should go further than simply open a new line of inquiry. To maximize the interdisciplinary turn to things, rhetoricians must seize the opportunity to reimagine and perhaps resolve rhetoric's historically problematic relationship to physical reality and ontology.

Product details

• Authors: Scot (EDT)/ Barnett Barnett
• Assisted by: Scot Barnett (Editor), Scott Barnett (Editor), Casey Boyle (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780817359102
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5910-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology