Unruly Rhetors (2018)
Language: English
Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
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CONDITION NOTES: Published 2018. Paperback. Spine is tight and unbroken. Good reading copy. Some underlining/highlighting present. Pencil underlining/highlighting present. See photos for condition. SYNOPSIS: "What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation? Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism, political protest, and public assembly. An introduction drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler explores the conditions under which civil discourse cannot adequately redress suffering or injustice. The essays offer analyses of 'unruliness' in case studies from both twenty-first-century and historical sites of social-justice protest. The collection concludes with an afterword highlighting and inviting further exploration of the ethical, political, and pedagogical questions unruly rhetorics raise. Examining multiple modes of expression - embodied, print, digital, and sonic - Unruly Rhetorics points to the possibility that unruliness, more than just one of many rhetorical strategies within political activity, is constitutive of the political itself"--.…
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- Title
- Unruly Rhetors (2018)
- Author
- Jonathan Alexander, Susan C Jarratt, Nancy Welch
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822965569
- ISBN 13
- 9780822965565
- Series
- Book 51 of 87: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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About the Author
Susan C. Jarratt is professor emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine and editor of the journal Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2016–19).
Nancy Welch is professor of English at the University of Vermont where she teaches classes in public writing, fiction writing, and social movement rhetorics. She is also the coordinator of the UVM Graduate Writing Center.
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