Breaking up (at) Totality A Rhetoric of Laughter

Name: Breaking up (at) Totality A Rhetoric of Laughter
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ISBN: 9780809322299

ISBN-10: 0809322293

ISBN-13: 9780809322299

Edition: 2000

Authors: D. Diane Davis

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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. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 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 nonsequentialnbsp; third—excess—that overflows language’s dichotomies. In this…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 1/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preambulatory Emissions: a Prefatory Post-Script on Where We Will Have G1


This is the Whole Show



Physiological Laughter: The Subject Convulsed



Discursive Laughter: Composition Convulsed


Excursus Being-Hard/Wired: Cyburbian Convulsions



A Rhetoric of Laughter for Feminist Politics



A Rhetoric of Laughter for Composition Pedagogy


A (nother) Post-Script on Laughter and Futurity


Notes


Works Cited


Index