Can I read Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw : Animals, Language, Sensation on EtoBox?

Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw : Animals, Language, Sensation by Debra Hawhee [Hawhee, Debra] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw : Animals, Language, Sensation about?

Bringing together classical rhetoric and the study of animals is not a trick for the faint-of-heart. Hawhee s ambition and skill here are astonishingcombining illumination of major texts of the rhetorical tradition with attention to the way animals show up in these great books of Aristotle, Demetrius, Longinus, Erasmus, and others, to show that nonhuman animals have made themselves indispensable to theories of language and communication, to inquiry, and to arts of memory and philosophies of mind. Speech or reason (logos) has traditionally been the focus of rhetoric (the art of effective language use), but sensation, feeling, and emotion are just as importantand this is where animals enter in. In fact they enter in very frequently when discussion centers on the extra-rational, or nonrational, aspects of communication. Nonhuman animals serve in these texts at times as sensible objects, but in large part they enter rhetoric s theories and treatises as moving, sensing creatures, as what Hawhee calls partners in feeling to their human counterparts. She meanwhile explores the use rhetoricians have made of references to animals in beast fables, ecphrases (vivid descriptions), discussions

Who reads Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw : Animals, Language, Sensation?

Author

Debra Hawhee [Hawhee, Debra]

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226706771

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, Language Learning