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Overview"This book explores the possibility of a ""liberatory postmodern rhetoric"" or, alternatively, a ""postmodern liberation rhetoric."" The author turns to one of the most ancient disciplines, rhetoric, in order to address a most contemporary concern: how can humans imagine new and better worlds when surrounded by unspeakable pain? After a foray into key terms-rhetoric, postmodern, liberation, pain, imagination, religion-the author places into conversation the theory and practice of four contemporary rhetoricians, two postmoderns, Kenneth Burke and Thomas Merton, and two liberationists, Paulo Freire of Brazil and Oscar Romero of El Salvador." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bradford T. StullPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9780791420829ISBN 10: 0791420825 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 30 September 1994 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Way to Proceed Rhetoric Postmodern versus Liberationists Pain Imagination The Religious Burke, Merton, Freire, Romero 2. Burke's Beloved Cynosure and Sinecure The Ambiguity of History The Plurality of Language Imagination Pain The Religious 3. 'Poetic Rhetoric and Baffling Illogic': Merton's The Geography of Lograire The Plurality of Language The Ambiguity of History Pain Imagination 4. Zoon Phonanta: Freire's New Human Pain Imagination Language and History 5. Romero's Pastoral Letters: 'Goodtidings to Those Who Suffer' Pain Imagination Language, History, Liberation Afterword Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsThere are many things I like about this book. First, and above all, it is concerned with how to be a responsible human being in the contemporary world, and the author's voice is appropriate to that concern: honest, intelligent, compassionate. Second, the book, ambitiously, aims to bring into dialogue two of the most powerful groups of theory on the scene at present. This is to tackle two major questions of pressing concern to many: on the one hand, can or does postructuralist theory have an ethic; on the other, how limiting is the particularity on which liberationist theories are based. Third, I like the author's choice of rhetoric and dialectic as a way to stage this confrontation and to address the ethical questions that concern him. - Lynn Poland, Davidson College """There are many things I like about this book. First, and above all, it is concerned with how to be a responsible human being in the contemporary world, and the author's voice is appropriate to that concern: honest, intelligent, compassionate. Second, the book, ambitiously, aims to bring into dialogue two of the most powerful groups of theory on the scene at present. This is to tackle two major questions of pressing concern to many: on the one hand, can or does postructuralist theory have an ethic; on the other, how limiting is the particularity on which liberationist theories are based. Third, I like the author's choice of rhetoric and dialectic as a way to stage this confrontation and to address the ethical questions that concern him."" - Lynn Poland, Davidson College" Author InformationBradford T. Stull is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University-East. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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