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Tropological Thought and Action : Essays on the Poetics of Imagination / ed. by Marko Živković, James W. Fernandez, Jamin Pelkey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Rhetoric and Culture ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (354 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800732728
  • 9781800732735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4 23
LOC classification:
  • P301.5.F53
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic -- CHAPTER 1 Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory -- CHAPTER 2 A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas -- CHAPTER 3 Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry -- CHAPTER 4 On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins -- CHAPTER 5 Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or “Witnessing a Shipwreck” German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future -- CHAPTER 6 An Apologia for Filthy Lucre -- CHAPTER 7 “Down the Garden Path” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding -- CHAPTER 8 Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence -- CHAPTER 9 Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England -- CHAPTER 10 Irony’s Arrow Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture -- CHAPTER 11 The Tropes of Music -- CHAPTER 12 Tactics For Working Anyway -- CHAPTER 13 Tropes, Frames, and Powers -- CONCLUSION Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding -- Index
Summary: From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Aides Pensée: Tropology and Tropologic -- CHAPTER 1 Don Quixote: Icon of Rhetoric Culture Theory -- CHAPTER 2 A Trope of Time: Twilight Swings across the Central Himalayas -- CHAPTER 3 Dreams Inside Out: Some Uses of Dream in Social Theory and Ethnographic Inquiry -- CHAPTER 4 On Conversion: A Theory of Ruins -- CHAPTER 5 Schiffbruch mit Zuschauer, or “Witnessing a Shipwreck” German Figurations in Facing the Past to Face the Future -- CHAPTER 6 An Apologia for Filthy Lucre -- CHAPTER 7 “Down the Garden Path” On Path-ologies of Inquiry and of “Progress” in Understanding -- CHAPTER 8 Sí teanga na muintire a shlánós an mhuintir: Ó Cadhain, Rhetoric, and Immanence -- CHAPTER 9 Parapraxis Today: The US Flag and the Mythopoesis of Self and Other in Post-9/11 New England -- CHAPTER 10 Irony’s Arrow Launching Contraria in Chinese Linguaculture -- CHAPTER 11 The Tropes of Music -- CHAPTER 12 Tactics For Working Anyway -- CHAPTER 13 Tropes, Frames, and Powers -- CONCLUSION Imaginative Leaps and Embodied Grounding -- Index

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From twilight in the Himalayas to dream worlds in the Serbian state, this book provides a unique collection of anthropological and cross-cultural inquiry into the power of rhetorical tropes and their relevance to the formation and analysis of social thought and action through a series of ethnographic essays offering in-depth studies of the human imagination at work and play around the world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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