|
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning)
|
Buy Now
A Feeling of Wrongness - Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,054
Discovery Miles 20 540
|
|
|
A Feeling of Wrongness - Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman
confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of
pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range
of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated
cartoons to speculative fiction. Packer and Stoneman explore how
narratives such as True Detective, Rick and Morty, Final Fantasy
VII, Lovecraftian weird fiction, and the pop ideology of
transhumanism are better suited to communicate pessimistic affect
to their fans than most carefully argued philosophical treatises
and polemics. They show how these popular nondiscursive texts
successfully circumvent the typical defenses against pessimism
identified by Peter Wessel Zapffe as distraction, isolation,
anchoring, and sublimation. They twist genres, upend common tropes,
and disturb conventional narrative structures in a way that catches
their audience off guard, resulting in belief without cognition, a
more rhetorically effective form of pessimism than philosophical
pessimism. While philosophers and polemicists argue for pessimism
in accord with the inherently optimistic structures of expressive
thought or rhetoric, Packer and Stoneman show how popular texts are
able to communicate their pessimism in ways that are paradoxically
freed from the restrictive tools of optimism. A Feeling of
Wrongness thus presents uncharted rhetorical possibilities for
narrative, making visible the rhetorical efficacy of alternate ways
and means of persuasion.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
