Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Rhetoric

Most books on writing assume that the sole purpose of writing is communication. These manuals seldom go beyond teaching how to avoid the problems of punctuation, grammar, and style that at one time or another ensnare the best of writers. Few, if any, of these books explore writing as a way of shaping thought.

V.A. Howard and J.H. Barton, two Harvard researchers in education, take a radically different approach. While they agree with their predecessors that an important function of writing is the clear, direct expression of thought, they point out that many of our thoughts first come...

Besides familiar and now-commonplace tasks that computers do all the time, what else are they capable of? Stephen Ramsay's intriguing study of computational text analysis examines how computers can be used as "reading machines" to open up entirely new possibilities for literary critics. Computer-based text analysis has been employed for the past several decades as a way of searching, collating, and indexing texts. Despite this, the digital revolution has not penetrated the core activity of literary studies: interpretive analysis of written texts.Computers can handle vast amounts of data,...

Current Trends in Narratology offers an overview of cutting-edge approaches to theories of storytelling. The introduction details how new emphases on cognitive processing, non-prose and multimedia narratives, and interdisciplinary approaches to narratology have altered how narration, narrative, and narrativity are understood. The volume also introduces a third post-classical direction of research - comparative narratology - and describes how developments in Germany, Israel, and France may be compared with Anglophone research. Leading international scholars including Monika...

In the late 1960s, colleges and universities became deeply embroiled in issues of racial equality. To combat this, hundreds of new programs were introduced to address the needs of "high-risk" minority and low-income students. In the years since, university policies have flip-flopped between calls to address minority needs and arguments to maintain "Standard English." Today, anti-affirmative action and anti-access sentiments have put many of these high-risk programs at risk.
In Interests and Opportunities, Steve Lamos chronicles debates over high-risk writing programs on the...

Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today's academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the...

Angemessenheit ist der Schlussel zur Persuasion: Uberzeugen kann eine Rede nur dann, wenn sie sich an den Meinungen der Zuhorer und den konkreten Umstanden der Situation orientiert. Wie aber vermag die rhetorische Theorie - die, wie jede Theorie, abstrahieren muss -, das Phanomen der Angemessenheit zu fassen?
Angemessenheit wird in der rhetorischen Tradition unter verschiedenen Rubra behandelt: vom kairos der Sophisten bis hin zur hofischen convenienza bei Castiglione. Besonders weitreichend sind ihre Implikationen fur die Rhetorik des Aristoteles und fur Ciceros Synthese von...