Breaking Up (At) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter - Brossura

Davis, D. Diane

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ISBN 10: 0809322293 ISBN 13: 9780809322299

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Rhetoric and composition theory has shown a renewed interest in sophistic countertraditions, as seen in the work of such "postphilosophers" as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Hélène Cixous, and of such rhetoricians as Susan Jarratt and Steven Mailloux. As D. Diane Davis traces today’s theoretical interest to those countertraditions, she also sets her sights beyond them.

Davis takes a “third sophistics” approach, one that focuses on the play of language that perpetually disrupts the “either/or” binary construction of dialectic. She concentrates on the nonsequential third—excess—that overflows language’s dichotomies. In this work, laughter operates as a trope for disruption or breaking up, which is, from Davis’s perspective, a joyfully destructive shattering of our confining conceptual frameworks.

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Informazioni sull?autore

D. Diane Davis is an assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0809322293
• ISBN 13: 9780809322299
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile