Invention As a Social Act

Name: Invention As a Social Act
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ISBN: 9780809313280

ISBN-10: 0809313286

ISBN-13: 9780809313280

Edition: 1986

Authors: Karen Burke LeFevre, Frank D'Angelo

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The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry, to creativity, to poetic and aesthetic invention. nbsp; Building on the work of rhetoricians, philosophers, linguists, and theorists in other disshy;ciplines, Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act, in which individuals inshy;teract dialectically with society and culture in disshy;tinctive ways. nbsp; Even when the primary agent of invention is an individual, invention is pervasively affected by relashy;tionships of that individual to others through lanshy;guage and other socially shared symbol systems.…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 10/30/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 173
Size: 5.59" wide x 8.46" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English