A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric

Author:   Jane S. Sutton ,  Mari Lee Mifsud
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9780739195062


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   11 April 2019
Format:   Paperback
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A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric


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A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display alloiōsis as a trope of difference, exception, and radical otherness. Their argument centers on Aristotle’s theory of rhetoric through particular tropes of similarity that sustained a vision of civic discourse but at the same time underutilized tropes of difference. When this vision is revolutionized, democratic deliberation can perform and advance its ends of equality, justice, and freedom. Marie-Odile N. Hobeika and Michele Kennerly join Sutton and Mifsud in pushing the limits of rhetoric by engaging rhetoric alloiostrophically. Their collective efforts work to display the possibilities of what rhetoric can be. A Revolution in Tropes will appeal to scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and communication

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Author:   Jane S. Sutton ,  Mari Lee Mifsud
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.245kg
ISBN:  

9780739195062


ISBN 10:   0739195069
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   11 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: A Revolution in Tropes, Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud Chapter 1: Figuring Rhetoric: From Antistrophē to Alloiostrophē, Jane S. Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud Chapter 2: The Earth is not at Rest and Neither Should Be Rhetoric, Jane S. Sutton Chapter 3: Essay as Parataxis: Theorizing Alloiōsis, Marie-Odile N. Hobeika Chapter 4: Beyond Syntax and Cities at War: Doing History and Theory Alloiostrophically, Mari Lee Mifsud Chapter 5: An Alloiotrophic Addition, Michele Kennerly Conclusion: A Chōra Afterword by way of a Fragment and a Riddle, Jane S. Sutton

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Alloiostrophic Rhetoric is indeed a tropic revolution for rhetorical studies. Sutton and Mifsud provoke the discipline to turn toward difference, to enact a rhetorical choreography that moves in concert with the alien, that embraces radical diversity, and that invites a space for otherness. Returning rhetoric to its tropological force, Sutton and Mifsud make rhetoric rhetorical. -- Michelle Ballif, University of Georgia The concept of the trope is easy to summon forth but hard to understand. Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud have put forward an engaging and inventive examination of this intriguing rhetorical concept. Uniting similarity and enforcing difference, A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric productively adds to our understanding of what we do when we use language. -- Scott R. Stroud, University of Texas at Austin An original and thought-provoking approach to rhetoric. -- Maurice Charland, Concordia University


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Jane S. Sutton is professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State York. Mari Lee Mifsud is associate professor of rhetoric and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Richmond.

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