Santa Teresa
Title | Santa Teresa PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Martina Bengert |
Publisher | Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2019-07-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3823301799 |
Even prior to her widely observed 500th anniversary, Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was already considered one of the most important authors of occidental mysticism. This volume gathers together contributions from a multitude of disciplines to explore the writings and reception of the Spanish author and saint. Previously disregarded lines of tradition are explored for a new understanding of her oeuvre, which is examined here with special regard to the potential to affect its readers. Teresa proves to not only be an accomplished, but also a very literary writer. Santa Teresa proves to be a figure of cultural memory, and the diffusion of her thinking is traced up to the present, whereby a recurrent focus is put on the phenomenon of ecstasy. Part of the widespread resonance of her work is the image of the iconic saint whose emergence as an international phenomenon is presented here for the first time. The volume is closed by an interview with Marina Abramovi answering four questions about Teresa.
African Americans and the Haitian Revolution
Title | African Americans and the Haitian Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134726139 |
Bringing together scholarly essays and helpfully annotated primary documents, African Americans and the Haitian Revolution collects not only the best recent scholarship on the subject, but also showcases the primary texts written by African Americans about the Haitian Revolution. Rather than being about the revolution itself, this collection attempts to show how the events in Haiti served to galvanize African Americans to think about themselves and to act in accordance with their beliefs, and contributes to the study of African Americans in the wider Atlantic World.
Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education
Title | Rhetoric, History, and Women's Oratorical Education PDF eBook |
Author | David Gold |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2013-05-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135104956 |
Historians of rhetoric have long worked to recover women's education in reading and writing, but have only recently begun to explore women's speaking practices, from the parlor to the platform to the varied types of institutions where women learned elocutionary and oratorical skills in preparation for professional and public life. This book fills an important gap in the history of rhetoric and suggests new paths for the way histories may be told in the future, tracing the shifting arc of women's oratorical training as it develops from forms of eighteenth-century rhetoric into institutional and extrainstitutional settings at the end of the nineteenth century and diverges into several distinct streams of community-embodied theory and practice in the twentieth. Treating key rhetors, genres, settings, and movements from the early republic to the present, these essays collectively challenge and complicate many previous claims made about the stability and development of gendered public and private spheres, the decline of oratorical culture and the limits of women's oratorical forms such as elocution and parlor rhetorics, and women's responses to rhetorical constraints on their public speaking. Enriching our understanding of women's oratorical education and practice, this cutting-edge work makes an important contribution to scholarship in rhetoric and communication.
Encyclopedia of Communication Theory
Title | Encyclopedia of Communication Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen W. Littlejohn |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 1953 |
Release | 2009-08-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1506319149 |
With more than 300 entries, these two volumes provide a one-stop source for a comprehensive overview of communication theory, offering current descriptions of theories as well as the background issues and concepts that comprise these theories. This is the first resource to summarize, in one place, the diversity of theory in the communication field. Key Themes Applications and Contexts Critical Orientations Cultural Orientations Cybernetic and Systems Orientations Feminist Orientations Group and Organizational Concepts Information, Media, and Communication Technology International and Global Concepts Interpersonal Concepts Non-Western Orientations Paradigms, Traditions, and Schools Philosophical Orientations Psycho-Cognitive Orientations Rhetorical Orientations Semiotic, Linguistic, and Discursive Orientations Social/Interactional Orientations Theory, Metatheory, Methodology, and Inquiry
Reclaiming the Rural
Title | Reclaiming the Rural PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Donehower |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0809330652 |
Reclaiming the Rural moves beyond typical arguments for the preservation, abandonment, or modernization of rural communities, analyzing how communities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico sustain themselves--economically, environmentally, intellectually, and politically--through literate action.
Freedom's Journal
Title | Freedom's Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Bacon |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780739118948 |
Freedom's Journal is a comprehensive study of the first African-American newspaper, which was founded in the first half of the 19th Century. The book investigates all aspects of publication as well as using the source material to extract information about African-American life at that time.
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies
Title | The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea A. Lunsford |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Pages | 713 |
Release | 2008-10-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1452212031 |
The SAGE Handbook of Rhetorical Studies surveys the latest advances in rhetorical scholarship, synthesizing theories and practices across major areas of study in the field and pointing the way for future studies. Edited by Andrea A. Lunsford and Associate Editors Kirt H. Wilson and Rosa A. Eberly, the Handbook aims to introduce a new generation of students to rhetorical study and provide a deeply informed and ready resource for scholars currently working in the field.