Friendship Fictions - The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

About the author

Michael A. Kaplan is an assistant professor in the department of communication studies at Baruch College, CUNY.

Product details

• Authors: Michael A Kaplan, Michael A. Kaplan
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2018
• EAN: 9780817359386
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5938-6
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Kommunikationswissenschaft, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric