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Author: Michele Kennerly ,
Damien Smith Pfister
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.491kg
ISBN: 9780817359041
ISBN 10: 0817359044
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 28 February 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In this edited volume, Kennerly and Smith explore how ancient rhetorical theory and ancient artifacts dealt with the same fundamental communication issues people face today, such as persuasion, media, technology, and intercultural communication. Essays are organized into five categories when reading the ancient and the digital together: antecedent relations, analogical relations, heuristic relations, convention relations, and renewal relations. This coherent volume applies ancient rhetorical terms as relevant tools for cultural criticism. A particularly compelling chapter, Isocratean Tropos and Mediated Multiplicity, by Rosa A. Eberly and Jeremy David Johnson, applies the ancient device of tropos, figures of speech, in analyzing the rhetoric of Harry Shearer (The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live). Other books locate the present function of rhetoric by examining the past, such as Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, by Trevor J. Blank and Robert Glenn Howard, but the compilation under review is unique in that the authors specifically compare ancient rhetorical texts with internet-driven networks. Readers should have a background in rhetorical theory. Highly recommended. --CHOICE
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection. - Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection. --Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis
"Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks is a strong edited collection that makes a unique contribution to two different areas within the field of rhetoric that are merging quickly into a tight intersection."""" - Jenny Rice, author of Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis"
Author Information
MicheleKennerly is an assistant professor and the director of effective speech at Penn State University. She is the author of Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics. Damien Smith Pfister is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Networked Media, Networked Rhetorics: Attention and Deliberation in the Early Blogosphere.
