Rhetoric category: 666 books
A Arte de ter Razão- 38 Estratagemas para Vencer um Debate Sem Precisar Ter Razão
Dialética Erística
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 27, 2018
*“Dialética Erística é a arte de discutir, mais precisamente a arte de discutir de modo a ter razão, isto é, per fas et nefas [por meios lícitos ou ilícitos]” *(Arthur Schopenhauer)
É esta obra então um manual de patifaria intelectual? Não! O texto desmascara os esquemas da...
The Cosmic Time of Empire
Modern Britain and World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives...
The King's English
A Guide to Modern Usage
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, The King's English is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than Fowler's Modern Usage, lighter than the Oxford English Dictionary, and brimming with the strong opinions and...
by Frank Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Exploring the relationship between the writer and what he/she happens to be writing, this text by one of the foremost scholars in the field of literacy and cognition is a unique and original examination of writing--as a craft and as a cognitive activity. The book is concerned with the physical activity...
Beyond Argument
Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the “care of the self” — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca, Montaigne, and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises...
Alien Life and Human Purpose
A Rhetorical Examination through History
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or “unity,” to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Although the unity myth has often...
The Rhetorical Invention of Man
A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man’s distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think about nonhuman animals is only one possibility among many. Vestiges of older ways of thinking continue...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much needed...
by Sharon Schuman
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom—being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth—have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature, political theory and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories...
by Hans Ostrom, William Haltom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Orwell’s "Politics and the English Language" in the Age of Pseudocracy visits the essay as if for the first time, clearing away lore about the essay and responding to the prose itself. It shows how many of Orwell’s rules and admonitions are far less useful than they are famed to be,...
Electronic Quills
A Situated Evaluation of Using Computers for Writing in Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume centers on the words and experiences of teachers and students who used QUILL -- a software package developed by the authors to aid in writing instruction. It looks in detail at the stories of these early users and considers questions relevant for other teachers, students, researchers,...
A Responsive Rhetorical Art
Artistic Methods for Contemporary Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A Responsive Rhetorical Art explores the risk-ridden realm of wise if always also fallible rhetorical action—the productive knowledge building required to compose and to leverage texts, broadly construed, for the purposes of public life marked by shrinking public resources, cultural conflict, and...
Beyond the Pulpit
Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2012
In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women’s participation helped the church to become the nation’s largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their...
Arthur Schopenhauer: Eristische Dialektik
Kunst des Streitens, Kunst des Disputierens
Language: German
Release Date: August 7, 2017
In der Arbeit "Eristische Dialektik" werden die seit der Antike verwendeten philosophischen Grundbegriffe Eristik (Lehre vom Streitgespräch) und Dialektik (Kunst der Unterredung) angesprochen. Die von Schopenhauer selbst als Eristische Dialektik bezeichnete Disziplin - er spricht im Untertitel...