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A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking study of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new ways of seeing rhetoric and its relationship with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud explore and display alloiōsis as a trope of difference, exception, and radical otherness. Their argument centers on Aristotle’s theory of rhetoric through particular tropes of similarity that sustained a vision of civic discourse but at the same time underutilized tropes of difference. When this vision is revolutionized, democratic deliberation can perform and advance its ends of equality, justice, and freedom. Marie-Odile, N. Hobeika, and Michele Kennerly join Sutton and Mifsud in pushing the limits of rhetoric by engaging rhetoric alloiostrophically. Their collective efforts work to display the possibilities of what rhetoric can be. A Revolution in Tropes will appeal to scholars of rhetoric, philosophy, and communication.

ISBN

978073915048

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Lexington Books

City

Baltimore

Keywords

rhetoric, tropes, Aristotle's theory, civic discourse

School

School of Arts and Sciences

Department

Rhetoric & Comm Studies

Disciplines

Rhetoric and Composition

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[Introduction to] A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric

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