Comparative Rhetoric - The Art of Traversing Rhetorical Times, Places, and Spaces

This collection introduces comparative rhetoric as an art of traversing rhetorical times, places, and spaces, providing new analytical frames for engaging non-euroamerican rhetorical practices.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

List of contents

1. Beyond Bias, Binary, and Border: Mapping out the Future of Comparative Rhetoric LuMing Mao 2. Comparative Rhetoric, Postcolonial Studies, and Transnational Feminisms: A Geopolitical Approach Bo Wang 3. Tied to a Tree: Culture and Self-Reflexivity Mary Garrett 4. Uchi/Soto in Japan: A Global Turn Dominic Ashby 5. Comparative Rhetoric, Egyptology, and the Case of Akhenaten Carol Lipson 6. Learning from India's Ny¿ya Rhetoric: Debating Analogically through V¿da's Fruitful Dialogue Keith Lloyd 7. Tao Trek: One and Other in Comparative Rhetoric, A Response C. Jan Swearingen

About the author

LuMing Mao is Chair and Professor in the Department of English, Miami University, Ohio, USA. He is the author of Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric and co-editor, with Morris Young, of Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, recipient of Honorable Mention for the MLA 2008 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize. His essays on comparative rhetoric, Chinese rhetoric, and Asian American rhetoric have appeared in book chapters and in major rhetoric and composition journals.

Summary

This collection introduces comparative rhetoric as an art of traversing rhetorical times, places, and spaces, providing new analytical frames for engaging non-euroamerican rhetorical practices. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Product details

• Authors: Luming Mao, Luming (Miami University Mao
• Assisted by: Luming Mao (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138376618
• ISBN: 978-1-138-37661-8
• No. of pages: 108
• Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly; Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Literary theory, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc