The Consolation of Rhetoric
Author: David M. Whalen
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 890
ISBN-13:
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Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics
Author: Dana Cloud
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780761905073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the consequences in American society when social and political activism is replaced by pursuit of personal, psychological change? How does such a shift happen? Where is it visible? In wide-ranging case studies, Control and Consolation in American Culture and Politics points out this change in American culture and attributes it to the "rhetoric of therapy." This rhetoric is defined as a pervasive cultural discourse that applies psychotherapy's lexicon - the constructive language of healing, coping, adaptation, and restoration of a previously existing order - to social and political conflict. The purpose of this therapeutic discourse is to encourage people to focus on themselves and their private lives rather than to attempt to reform flawed systems of social and political power. Author Dana L. Cloud focuses on the therapeutic discourse that emerged after the Vietnam War and links its rise to specific political and economic interests. The critical case studies describe in detail not only what the therapeutic style looks like but how and why therapeutic discourses are persuasive.
The Rhetoric of Consolation
Author: Neil Claymon Hultin
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rhetoric of Newman's Apologia Pro Catholica, 1845-1864
Author: Victor J. Lams
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781433100154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholicism against the hostility of English protestants, this book is a reader's guide to the books Newman published soon after his own conversion: Mixed Congregations; Difficulties of Anglicans; Present Position of Catholics, and his two novels. While the arguments advanced in Difficulties of Anglicans and Present Position of Catholics are confrontationally direct, his novels Loss and Gain and Callista respond to the attacks of Elizabeth Harris' From Oxford to Rome and Charles Kingsley's Hypatia by the indirection which typifies Newman's fictional rhetoric.
Boethius and Dialogue
Author: Seth Lerer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1400857651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of The Consolation of Philosophy. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Rhetoric in Antiquity
Author: Laurent Pernot
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0813214076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published as La Rhétorique dans l'Antiquité (2000), this new English edition provides students with a valuable introduction to understanding the classical art of rhetoric and its place in ancient society and politics
Comfort One Another
Author: Abraham Smith
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780664251789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique study considers the exegetical and hermeneutical possibilities of analyzing the entire letter of 1 Thessalonians as a letter of consolation. Abraham Smith maintains that Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians with a full knowledge of the tradition of Greco-Roman letters of consolation and chose this genre to sustain members of the Thessalonian church. Smith explicates the social and literary conventions of this tradition and fully discloses why this particular rhetoric of care was employed. Showing how Paul's letter of consolation was understood in Paul's world and by subsequent generations, Smith demonstrates the usefulness of Paul's rhetoric of comfort for modern society.
The Rhetorical Approach to 1 Thessalonians
Author: Ezra JaeKyung Cho
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1725258900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the rhetorical approach to 1 Thessalonians, particularly on funeral orations. Though many scholars have interpreted 1 Thessalonians in light of a thematic perspective, mirror reading, and epistolary approach, the author asserts that Paul employs elements of epideictic funerary oratory to persuade his audience. Encountering the growing persecution, sufferings, and even death of members, the believers of Thessalonica needed encouragement. As a rhetorical strategist, Paul needed effective methods to answer these problems, which he did so with Greco-Roman funeral orations. Moreover, this book delves into the funerary language with the paradoxical concepts Paul uses to illustrate topoi and the purpose of funeral oration in 1 Thessalonians. Consequently, this book proves these ideas by showing how funeral orations shed light on the whole of 1 Thessalonians in the exordium (1 Thess 1:2-3), the narratio (1:4--3:10), the consolation and exhortation (4:1--5:15), and peroratio with prayer (5:16-28).
Greek Myths in Roman Art and Culture
Author: Zahra Newby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1107072247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.
Consolatory Rhetoric
Author: Donovan J. Ochs
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780872498853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort communities afflicted by the death of one of their members. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written texts, Donovan Ochs broadens the traditional focus to consider non-verbal symbols as well as action and object languages. Ochs demonstrates that non-discursive dimensions of Greco-Roman burial rites held a place of particular persuasive significance in consoling the populace and he attributes funeral customs practiced in contemporary western civilization to the legacy left by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
