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A Counter-History of Composition contests the foundational disciplinary assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and concurrently dismissed as innate, intuitive, and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Counter to this, Byron Hawk identifies vitalism as the ground for producing rhetorical texts-the product of complex material relations rather than the product of chance. Through insightful historical

English language --- Rhetoric. --- Literary rhetorics --- Germanic languages

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The Renaissance saw a renewed and energetic engagement with classical rhetoric; recent years have seen a similar revival of interest in Renaissance rhetoric. As Renaissance critics recognised, figurative language is the key area of intersection between rhetoric and literature. This book is the first modern account of Renaissance rhetoric to focus solely on the figures of speech. It reflects a belief that the figures exemplify the larger concerns of rhetoric, and connect, directly or by analogy, to broader cultural and philosophical concerns within early modern society. Thirteen authoritative contributors have selected a rhetorical figure with a special currency in Renaissance writing and have used it as a key to one of the period's characteristic modes of perception, forms of argument, states of feeling or styles of reading.

Literary rhetorics --- European literature --- Figures of speech in literature. --- History and criticism.

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It is impossible to imagine a community that is not divided into at least two gender groups. It is equally impossible to imagine a community that does not tell or enact stories. The relationship between these universal aspects of human culture is the mainspring of Gender and Narrativity. From Genesis to Freud, the Western narrative tradition tells the same old story of masculine dominance/feminine subservience as a matter of divine will or natural truth. Here, nine Canadian scholars challenge and interpret this tradition, in effect "re-telling" the story of gender, and themselves intervening in the narrative process. Critical readings from a wide range of literary texts - medieval and modern, European and Canadian - replace abstract theory in these studies, while sociology, anthropology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and new history are the axes of discussion. This book exemplifies the current range and diversity of Canadian critical writing.

Gender identity in literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Fiction --- Literary rhetorics

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Rhetoric and composition is an academic discipline that informs all other fields in teaching students how to communicate their ideas and construct their arguments. It has grown dramatically to become a cornerstone of many undergraduate courses and curricula, and it is a particularly dynamic field for scholarly research. This book offers an accessible introduction to teaching and studying rhetoric and composition. By combining the history of rhetoric, explorations of its underlying theories, and a survey of current research (with practical examples and advice), Steven Lynn offers a solid foundation for further study in the field. Readers will find useful information on how students have been taught to invent and organize materials, to express themselves correctly and effectively, and how the ancient study of memory and delivery illuminates discourse and pedagogy today. This concise book thus provides a starting point for learning about the discipline that engages writing, thinking, and argument.

Literary rhetorics --- English language --- Report writing --- Critical thinking --- Rhetoric --- Study and teaching. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Germanic languages

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Die narrative Dimension ist in der theaterwissenschaftlich orientierten Aufführungsanalyse bislang unterrepräsentiert.Um dieses Desiderat zu beheben, untersucht die Arbeit nicht etwa von Figuren erzählte Passagen in einzelnen Aufführungen, sondern stellt generell die Frage: Wie erzählt das Theater? Die Theaternarratologie entwickelt somit erstmals auf Grundlage eines umfassenden theoretischen Fundaments in Bezug auf die Forschungsfelder der klassischen und postklassischen Narratologie und der Theaterwissenschaft ein heuristisches Analysemodell performativen Erzählens, das sich zur praktischen Anwendung in der erzähltheoretischen Aufführungsanalyse eignet. Die entwickelten Analysekategorien machen es möglich, das theatrale Erzählen intersubjektiv nachvollziehbar zu beschreiben und in narratologischer Hinsicht nicht nur in intertheatrale, sondern auch in intermediale Kontexte zu stellen. Performativität und Narrativität werden zusammen und nicht als Gegensätze gedacht, wodurch die Möglichkeit einer Annäherung theaterwissenschaftlicher und narratologischer Forschung gegeben wird.

Literary rhetorics --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Performativity. --- analysis. --- multimodality. --- narrativity.