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Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism
While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with rhetoric were rearticulated after its demise. This volume explores how persuasion ceased to be the seemingly self-evident objective of rhetoric and became, instead, a variable and substantive focus for discussion in its own right. After rhetoric ceded much of its centrality to logic and empirical procedures, the significance and implications of persuasion were the subject of renewed attention in a range of different fields, including philosophy, law, poetry, novels, botany, cultural criticism, historio...
Norm Contestation
This Brief uses the theory of norm contestation as a model for understanding variation in norm-related behavior in international relations. While most typical approaches to understanding norms view norms as stable structures and actor responses to them as unquestioned, in a global political climate where departures from expected behavior may occur, a more nuanced model is needed. By using a norm contestation framework that highlights norm fluidity and actor agency, this book expands the discussion, providing insight into divergent interpretations of norm violation and compliance and the dynamic nature of norms. The first two chapters introduce the norm contestation model, explain how it cont...
Struggle on Their Minds
American political thought has been shaped by those who fought back against social inequality, economic exclusion, the denial of political representation, and slavery, the country's original sin. Yet too often the voices of African American resistance have been neglected, silenced, or forgotten. In this timely book, Alex Zamalin considers key moments of resistance to demonstrate its current and future necessity, focusing on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse. Struggle on Their Minds shows how the core values of the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antira...
Strategies of Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other Media
The fourteen chapters in this anthology feature original analyses of contemporary German-language literary texts, films, political cartoons, cabaret, and other types of performance. The artworks display a wide spectrum of humor modes, such as irony, satire, the grotesque, Jewish humor, and slapstick, as responses to unification with the accompanying euphoria, but also alienation and dislocation. Kerstin Hensel’s Lärchenau, Christoph Hein’s Landnahme, and vignette collections by Jakob Hein (Antrag auf ständige Ausreise und andere Mythen der DDR) and Wladimir Kaminer (Es gab keinen Sex im Sozialismus) are interpreted as examples of the grotesque. The popular films Lola rennt, Sonnenallee...
Alter Mann, junge Frau
Sie war 42 Jahre alt und verheiratet mit einem 33 Jahre älteren Mann. Er war groß gewachsen, hager, hatte einen Habichtsblick und schämte sich nicht, selbst Fremde nach ihren Intimitäten direkt zu fragen. Er war rechthaberisch, reagierte empört auf die Meinung Anderer und ließ sie nicht zu Wort kommen. Sie hatte ihren Ehemann getötet und das Gericht fragte an, in welchem Zustand sie sich aus psychologischer Sicht bei Tatbegehung befunden habe.
Michigan POW Camps in World War II
During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit. The work programs were not flawless and not all of the prisoners were cooperative, but many of the men established enduring friendships with their captors. Author Gregory Sumner tells the story of these detainees and the ordinary Americans who embodied our highest ideals, even amid a global war.
Weltenbrand: Das Erbe des Blutadels
- Die Weltenbrand-Reihe ist beendet! - Als Mitarbeiterin eines renommierten Sicherheitsdienstes ist Claire Esterbrooks den Umgang mit gefährlichen Individuen gewohnt. Ihr selbstsicheres Auftreten imponiert Daniel Kirby, so dass er sich zu einem heißen Flirt hinreißen lässt. Ein Kuss allerdings macht sie zur Zielscheibe eines übermächtigen Magiers. Im Kampf um ihr Leben entdeckt sie bislang verborgene Fähigkeiten, die sie gleichsam faszinieren wie auch ängstigen. Daniel und seine Begleiterin scheinen zudem die Einzigen zu sein, die ihr gegen den mörderischen Zauberer helfen können. Claire ist gezwungen, ihre Hilfe anzunehmen, obwohl sie instinktiv spürt, dass weder Daniel noch seine Begleiterin von dieser Welt sind. Doch alles Training scheint vergebens, denn die Angriffe werden immer rücksichtsloser, und Claire und Daniel läuft die Zeit davon ... Rasantes Urban-Fantasy-Abenteuer mit einer Prise Romantik! Band 1: Weltenbrand: Das Erbe des Blutadels Band 2: Weltenbrand: Der Zorn der Brüder Band 3: Weltenbrand: Der Weg des Kriegers Band 4: Weltenbrand: Revelation - REIHE beendet! -
Gilbert Austin's "Chironomia" Revisited
This first book-length study of Irish educator, clergyman, and author Gilbert Austin as an elocutionary rhetor investigates how his work informs contemporary scholarship on delivery, rhetorical history and theory, and embodied communication. Authors Sara Newman and Sigrid Streit study Austin’s theoretical system, outlined in his 1806 book Chironomia; or A Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery—an innovative study of gestures as a viable, independent language—and consider how Austin’s efforts to incorporate movement and integrate texts and images intersect with present-day interdisciplinary studies of embodiment. Austin did not simply categorize gesture mechanically, separating delivery from...
