A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric by Jane S. Sutton,Mari Lee Mifsud

By Jane S. Sutton,Mari Lee Mifsud

A Revolution in Tropes is a groundbreaking research of rhetoric and tropes. Theorizing new methods of seeing rhetoric and its dating with democratic deliberation, Jane Sutton and Mari Lee Mifsud discover and exhibit alloiōsis as a trope of distinction, exception, and radical otherness. Their argument facilities on Aristotle’s concept of rhetoric via specific tropes of similarity that sustained a imaginative and prescient of civic discourse yet whilst underutilized tropes of distinction. while this imaginative and prescient is revolutionized, democratic deliberation can practice and boost its ends of equality, justice, and freedom. Marie-Odile N. Hobeika and Michele Kennerly subscribe to Sutton and Mifsud in pushing the bounds of rhetoric through attractive rhetoric alloiostrophically. Their collective efforts paintings to reveal the probabilities of what rhetoric will be. A Revolution in Tropes will attract students of rhetoric, philosophy, and communication

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