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  • Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw

    Animals, Language, Sensation

    by Debra Hawhee ...
    We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric.Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: they're crawling with animals. With Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw, Debra Hawhee explores this unexpected aspect of early thinking about rhetoric, going on ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moving Bodies

    Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language

    by Debra Hawhee ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A sophisticated study of how bodies and language move and are moved by each otherKenneth Burke may be best known for his theories of dramatism and of language as symbolic action, but few know him as one of the twentieth century's foremost theorists of the relationship between language and bodies. In Moving Bodies, Debra Hawhee focuses on Burke's studies from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s while ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Bodily Arts

    Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece

    by Debra Hawhee ...
    The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Sense of Urgency

    How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric

    by Debra Hawhee ...
    A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Practice of Rhetoric

    Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

    by Debra Hawhee, Vessela Valiavitcharska, Jeanne Fahnestock, Susan C. Jarratt, Michele Kennerly, Mark Garrett Longaker, Glen McClish, Ellen Quandahl, Marie Secor0, Dale Martin Smith1, Cleve Wiese2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practiceRhetoric is the art of emphasis, in the ancient sense of bringing to light or obscuring in shadow, and it is both a practice and a theory about that practice. In recent decades, scholars of rhetoric have turned to approaches that braid together poetics, performance, and philosophy into a “practical art.” The ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Aesopic Conversations

    Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

    by Leslie Kurke ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

    Edited by Martin Revermann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies

    Edited by Michael J. MacDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again "contagious" and "communicable" (Friedrich Nietzsche). Featuring sixty commissioned chapters by eminent scholars of rhetoric from twelve ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Aeschylus: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Isabelle Torrance ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Eros the Bittersweet

    by Anne Carson ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeA book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros" in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, "It was Sappho who first called eros 'bittersweet.' No one who has been in love disputes her," Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soul's Code

    In Search of Character and Calling

    by James Hillman ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A transformative guide to reconnecting with and harnessing your authentic self so you can lead a more fulfilled, complete life, from the world-renowned former director of the Jung Institute“A brilliant and absorbing work . . . [James] Hillman dares us to believe we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers WeeklyPlato called it ... Read more

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  • Saving Time

    Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

    by Jenny Odell ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit</... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD