Shadow Songs: Reflections of Rhetoric, Culture and Human Survival - Couverture souple

Wander, Philip C.

 
9781848761780: Shadow Songs: Reflections of Rhetoric, Culture and Human Survival

Synopsis

This book confronts growing concern about the quality of our civic discourse, the problems we do and do not take up as a people and as human beings. The most important being the survival of the planet. To get at such issues requires not only new approaches to criticism, but also a more profound sense of what it means to be a critic. Topics range from the L in scholarship, strategies for re-humanizing dehumanized people, politics in poetry and philosophy, 9/11 and the global reality in the 21st century.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book confronts growing concerns about the quality of our civic discourse, the problems we do and do not take up as a people and as human beings. The most important being the survival of life on the planet. To get at such issues requires not only new approaches to criticism, but also a more profound sense about what it means to be a critic. Topics range from the place of the "I" in scholarship, strategies for re-humanizing dehumanized peoples, politics in poetry and philosophy, 9/11 and global reality in the 21st century, morality and the second invasion of Iraq, ecology and the rhetoric of science.

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