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The Rhetoric of Sincerity (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,137
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The Rhetoric of Sincerity (Hardcover): Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Carel Smith

The Rhetoric of Sincerity (Hardcover)

Ernst van Alphen, Mieke Bal, Carel Smith

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

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In times of intercultural tensions and conflicts, sincerity matters. Traditionally, sincerity concerns a performance of authenticity and truth, a performance that in intercultural situations is easily misunderstood. Sincerity plays a major role in law, the arts--literature, but especially the visual and performing arts--and religion. Sincerity enters the English language in the sixteenth century, when theatre emerged as the dominant idiom of secular representation, during a time of major religious changes. The present historical moment has much in common with that era; with its religious and cultural conflicts and major transformations in representational idioms and media. "The Rhetoric of Sincerity" is concerned with the ways in which the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different media and disciplines. The book focuses on the theatricality of sincerity, its bodily, linguistic, and social performances, and the success or failure of such performances.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date: November 2008
First published: 2008
Editors: Ernst van Alphen • Mieke Bal • Carel Smith
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5827-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN: 0-8047-5827-1
Barcode: 9780804758277

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