Breaking Up (At) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter Contributor(s): Davis, D. Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809322293 ISBN-13: 9780809322299 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2000 Annotation: 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 Helene 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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BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General |
Dewey: 808.042 |
LCCN: 99032609 |
Lexile Measure: 1320(Not Available) |
Series: Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 6.05" W x 9.01" L (1.09 lbs) 336 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 H l ne 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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