Rhetorical Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetorical Realism write by Scot Barnett. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Rhetorical Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing, the nonhuman turn poses a number of challenges and opportunities for rhetoric. To date, many of the responses to the nonhuman turn in rhetoric have sought to address rhetoric’s compatibility with new conceptions of materiality. In Rhetorical Realism, Scot Barnett extends this work by transforming it into a new historiographic methodology attuned to the presence and occlusion of things in rhetorical history. Through investigations of rhetoric’s place in Aristotelian metaphysics, the language invention movement of the seventeenth century, and postmodern conceptions of rhetoric as an epistemic art, Barnett’s study expands the scope of rhetorical inquiry by showing how realist ideas have worked to frame rhetoric’s scope and meanings during key moments in its history. Ultimately, Barnett argues that all versions of rhetoric depend upon some realist assumptions about the world. Rather than conceive of the nonhuman as a dramatic turning point in rhetorical theory, Rhetorical Realism encourages rhetorical theorists to turn another eye toward what rhetoricians have always done—defining and configuring rhetoric within a broader ontology of things.
Post-Realism
Post-Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Realism write by Robert Hariman. This book was released on 1996-08-31. Post-Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post- War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.
The Rhetoric of Perspective
The Rhetoric of Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rhetoric of Perspective write by Hanneke Grootenboer. This book was released on 2006-12-31. The Rhetoric of Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image. Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects. Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception. “An elegant and honourable synthesis.”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement
Realism and Popular Cinema
Realism and Popular Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Realism and Popular Cinema write by Julia Hallam. This book was released on 2000-08-05. Realism and Popular Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Compares Once were warriors with other films that have similar themes.
Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition
Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition write by Mack Smith. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition examines representative texts and the theories of realism upon which they are based. It studies the foundations of these theories in the philosophies of language contemporaneous with them. Beginning with Adamicism, Mack Smith looks at the way humanist, rationalist, empiricist, Kantian, positivist, and poststructuralist theories of language are textually dramatized. He considers the cultural and personal influences that affect historical notions of realism and reality. He also demonstrates the rhetorical basis of realism by considering a mimetic device used by novelists in rendering a faithful version of reality&—ekphrasis, the narrative description of a work of art. Smith seeks a middle ground between the extremes of theory and interpretation, discourse and reality, and textualism and history, thus making an important contribution to the revaluation of literary studies.
