Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks
ISBN: 9780791460993 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, a...
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396,11 zł |
Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks
ISBN: 9780791461006 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, a...
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139,82 zł |
Narrative Discourse Revisited: Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany
ISBN: 9780801495359 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of narrative form and functioning. This book not only clarifies some of the more complex issues in the study of narrative but also provides a vivid tableau of the development of narratology over the decade between the two works.
In Narrative Discourse Revisited Genette both answers critics of the earlier work and provides a better-defined, richer, and more systematic view of n...
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109,29 zł |
Nonsense: Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature
ISBN: 9780801839818 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) From a -comic strip- papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, -nonsense- texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of -making sense- from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan Stewart explores the labyrinthine relationships between common sense and nonsense-- and presents an original contribution to the fields of folklore, literary theory, anthropology, and sociology by analyzing nonsense within an expansive context... From a -comic strip- papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, -nonsense- texts reveal a set of possibilitie... |
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The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
ISBN: 9780801851186 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by current scholarship on the subject. Arguing against this view, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse. Replacing these early text by such treatises as the Rhetoric of Aristotle, Cole explains, can only be understood as part of a gradual process, as artistic prose came to be disseminated in written texts and so available in a form that, for the first...
Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? This text argues that it is not, and yet this is the path taken by c...
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145,25 zł |
The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language
ISBN: 9780802064479 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together and discusses significant viewpoints on metaphor held by writers in various disciplines. These include linguistics and semantics, the philosophy of language, literary criticism, and aesthetics. Originally published in English in 1978, this full-scale examination of the philosophy of metaphor from Aristotle to the present, brings together a... |
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Handbook of Narrative Analysis
ISBN: 9780803273498 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The study of narrative has been a continuous concern from antiquity to the present day because stories are everywhere from fiction across media to nation building and personal identity. Handbook of Narrative Analysis sorts out both traditional and recent narrative theories, providing the necessary skills to interpret any story that comes along.In addition to discussing classical theorists such as Gerard Genette, Mieke Bal, and Seymour Chatman, Handbook of Narrative Analysis presents precursors (such as E. M. Forster), related theorists (Franz Stanzel, Dorrit Cohn), and a large...
The study of narrative has been a continuous concern from antiquity to the present day because stories are everywhere from fiction across media to nat...
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162,33 zł |
Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling
ISBN: 9780803289932 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative migrates, mutates, and creates meaning as it is expressed across various media.
Dividing the inquiry into five areas: face-to-face narrative, still pictures, moving pictures, music, and digital media, Narrative across Media investigates how the intrinsic properties of the supporting medium shape the form of narrative and affect the narrative experience. Unlike other interdisciplinary approaches to narrative studies,... Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the questio...
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145,74 zł |
Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: 9780804718189 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The discipline of rhetoric - adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance societies - dominated European education and discourse, whether public or private, for more than two thousand years. The end of classical rhetoric's domination was brought about by a combination of social and cultural transformations that occured between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Concurrent with the 'theory boom' of recent decades, rhetoric has appeared as a center of discussion in the humanities and social sciences. Rhetorical...
The discipline of rhetoric - adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance so...
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124,92 zł |
The Psychology of Written Composition
ISBN: 9780805800388 / Angielski / Miękka / 389 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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374,85 zł |
Analyze Organize Write Revised Ed.
ISBN: 9780805800821 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification, and thesis support. These techniques force students to see the basic logic of different writing patterns. The goal of Whimbey's workbook is to teach the student to write concise and original essays on any topic.
This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask student...
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192,60 zł |
The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric : Appropriations of Ancient Discourse
ISBN: 9780805801316 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This text traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. It discusses adaptability of the material to language situations. It concludes that classical rhetoric can address any situation as it focuses on critical stances to discourse, and offers theories for the production of discourse.
This text traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. It discusses adaptability of the material to language situations. It concludes t...
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452,95 zł |
Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise : Reading, Writing, and Knowing in Academic Philosophy
ISBN: 9780805810677 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Integrating cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing this text covers: educational research on reading and writing; rhetorical research on writing in the discipline; cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems; and sociological and historical research on the profession.
Integrating cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing this text covers: educational research on reading and writing; rhetorical resear...
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702,94 zł |
Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
ISBN: 9780805810691 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to both the linguistically-inspired descriptive and logically-inspired normative approaches to argumentation.
The authors characterize argumentation as a complex speech act in a critical discussion aimed at resolving a difference of opinion. The various stages of a critical discussion are... This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communica...
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260,30 zł |
Electronic Quills: A Situated Evaluation of Using Computers for Writing in Classrooms
ISBN: 9780805811681 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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, and developers of educational innovations. Questions posed include: * What does it mean to develop an environment for literacy in an actual classroom? * How can a teacher create an environment in which students work together toward meaningful goals? * How can a teacher promote the rich communication...
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 writ...
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135,32 zł |
Composing Social Identity in Written Language
ISBN: 9780805813845 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social variation that have not often been thus juxtaposed: ethnicity/nationality, gender, and participant role relations. The unifying theme of this collection of papers is that all of these factors are aspects of writers' identities -- identities which are simultaneously expressed and constructed in text.
The topic of social identity and writing can be approached from a variety of scholarly avenues, including humanistic, critical, and historical... This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social varia...
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192,60 zł |
Writing and the Writer
ISBN: 9780805814224 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This updated edition aims to provide a framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical and practical ways. A chapter on computers and writing is included, as well as more about the role of reading in learning to write, and about learning to write at all ages.
This updated edition aims to provide a framework for thinking about the act of writing in both theoretical and practical ways. A chapter on computers ...
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Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy: Selected Papers From the 1994 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America
ISBN: 9780805816099 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. The contributors reflect multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives -- English, speech communication, philosophy, rhetoric, composition studies, comparative literature, and film and media studies. Exploring the historical relationships and changing relationships between rhetoric, cultural studies, and literacy in the United States, this text seeks answers to such questions as what constitutes "literacy" in a post-modern, high-tech, multi-cultural...
This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. T...
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192,60 zł |
Reconceiving Writing, Rethinking Writing Instruction
ISBN: 9780805816914 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An anthology of essays on general writing skills instruction, or GWSI. The book focuses on the gap between the theory and practice that has emerged as a result of the field's growing professionalization.
An anthology of essays on general writing skills instruction, or GWSI. The book focuses on the gap between the theory and practice that has emerged as...
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702,94 zł |
Rhetoric and Pedagogy : Its History, Philosophy, and Practice: Essays in Honor of James J. Murphy
ISBN: 9780805818215 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present a tribute to James J. Murphy, whose scholarship and service did much to shape the field. The book will introduce new insights into western European rhetoric and its connections with English rhetoric.
To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing diffe...
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676,90 zł |