..". a spirited, well-researched volume ... this highly readable study is an impressive work ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intended general and academic audiences." - Choice
Can a novel cause riots, start a war, free serfs or slaves, break up marriages, drive readers to suicide, close factories, bring about law change, swing an election, or serve as a weapon in a national or international struggle? The author explores this question in the form of a theoretical essay on narrative and power, followed by five detailed case studies of works by Turgenev, Harriet Beecher...
..". a spirited, well-researched volume ... this highly readable study is an impressive work ofcontemporary criticism, richly deserving of its intende...
Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely the two in combination) to analyze issues -- theoretical and practical, domestic and international -- in the broad field of politics. Among the topics they have studied are:
competing metaphors for the state or nation which have been coined over the centuries in diverse cultures;
the frequency with which communal and international conflicts are generated, at least in part, by the clashing religious and...
Scholars in many of the disciplines surrounding politics explicitly utilize either a narrative perspective or a metaphor perspective (though rarely...
This volume is the first to bring together a team of eminent scholars from this wide range of disciplines to document more or less comprehensively current thinking on the many ways in which narrative and metaphor function as cognitive and rhetorical instruments in discourse around politics and to explore the potential for the two perspectives to be employed more often in combination. It focuses particularly on the prevalence of dysfunctional political narratives and metaphors and the potential for them to be critiqued and effectively amended. The book will appeal to any scholar interested in...
This volume is the first to bring together a team of eminent scholars from this wide range of disciplines to document more or less comprehensively cur...
Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena such as checks, tilings and patterns, regular and irregular, repeating and non-repeating. A wide range of examples are drawn from urban and rural environments, at the macro and micro levels, in land- and cityscapes, buildings, and other designed constructions, compositions and objects.
Considered conventionally, checks, periodic tilings and regular patterns owe their compositional arrangements to an order imposed by an underlying grid...
Stripes, Grids and Checks considers the nature of lines and assemblies of lines, including stripes and grids, as well as related phenomena s...
This volume brings together distinguished legal scholars with specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, anthropology, criminology, and legal activism for a wide-ranging series of conversations about the roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of the law.
This volume brings together distinguished legal scholars with specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, anthropology...
