The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict - Softcover

Haynes, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809335085 ISBN 13: 9780809335084

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In The Homesick Phone Book, author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently. Ultimately, The Homesick Phone Book demonstrates how scholars of rhetoric and writing studies can break their dependence on conventional argument and logic to discover what might be possible if we dive into and become lost within the very concepts and events that frighten and terrorize us.

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About the Author

Cynthia Haynes is a professor of English and the director of first-year composition at Clemson University. She is a coauthor of High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs and MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments, as well as articles in JAC, Enculturation, Pre/Text, and many other publications.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809335085
• ISBN 13: 9780809335084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277