Rhetorical Homologies - Form, Culture, Experience

This book examines the relationship between rhetoric and public culture. Barry Brummett explores homologies between very different orders of experience and texts, such as battlefield experiences that are homologous to those at a dining room table. What these common patterns mean, why they are interesting, and why homology is rhetorical are the subjects of this study.
"Rhetorical Homologies " is an exceptionally well-crafted and -written work. Highly imaginative as well as at times provocative. . . . The individual studies in this text stand on their own as refined and sophisticated analyses of the relationship between rhetoric and public culture."--Raymie McKerrow, coeditor of "Principles and Types of Pubic Speaking
"

About the author

Barry Brummet is the author of several books, including The World and How We Describe It: Rhetorics of Reality, Representation, Simulation; Reading Rhetorical Theory; and Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Brummett
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2009
• EAN: 9780817355708
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5570-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)