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This single volume traces three approaches to the "study" of the
Holocaust--through notions of history, theories of memory, and a
focus on art and representation. It introduces readers to the
different ways we have come to "understand" the Holocaust, gives
them an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions, and
examines how this event can be understood once all the survivors
are gone. In addition, the book looks at the different disciplines
-- history, sociology, religious studies, and literary
interpretation, among others -- through which studies of the
Holocaust take place. A three section organization covers history,
the treatment of eyewitness and the testimonies produced by them,
and the possibility of literature and other arts presenting a
better understanding of Holocaust events than the former. MARKET
For individuals interested in a historical interpretation of the
Holocaust-- even more complex and troubling than the event itself.
This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the
Holocaust - through notions of history, theories of memory, and a
focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the
different ways we have come to understand the Holocaust, gives them
an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions, and
examines how this event can be understood once all the survivors
are gone. In addition, the book looks at the different disciplines
- history, sociology, religious studies, and literary
interpretation, among others - through which studies of the
Holocaust take place.
This volume, the first of its kind, establishes and clarifies the
significance of Jewish rhetorics as its own field and as a field
within rhetoric studies. Diverse essays illuminate and complicate
the editors' definition of a Jewish rhetorical stance as allowing
speakers to maintain a "resolute sense of engagement" with their
fellows and their community, while also remaining aware of the
dislocation from the members of those communities. Topics include
the historical and theoretical foundations of Jewish rhetorics;
cultural variants and modes of cultural expression; and
intersections with Greco-Roman, Christian, Islamic, and
contemporary rhetorical theory and practice. In addition, the
contributors examine gender and Yiddish, and evaluate the actual
and potential effect of Jewish rhetorics on contemporary
scholarship and on the ways we understand and teach language and
writing. The contributors include some of the world's leading
scholars of rhetoric, writing, and Jewish studies.
The second part of Medievalism and the Academy identifies the four
specific questions that have come to focus recent scholarship in
medievalism: What is difference? what is theory? woman? God? The
impact of cultural studies on contemporary medieval studies is
investigated in this latest volume of Studies in Medievalism, which
also offers an account of the developing interest of contemporary
cultural theorists inthe medieval period. Rather than dismissing
the connection between medieval studies and cultural criticism as
an expression of academic self-interest, the essays identify
specific questions which engage both, such as race, history, women,
religion, and literature. Topics include the use of Augustine by
postcolonial theorists; the influence of studies in medieval
mysticism on the development of women's studies programs; and the
influence of Foucault and NewHistoricism on the study of medieval
history. Contributors: ELLIE RAGLAND, TIMOTHY RICHARDSON, MICHAEL
BERNARD-DONALS, CLAY KINSNER, LINDA SEXSON, REBECCA DOUGLASS,
LOUISE SYLVESTER, RICHARD GLEJZER, CHARLES WILSON, ANDREW J.
DELL'OLIO
With language we name and define all things, and by studying our
use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these
things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,
however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that
transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by
language. The sacred thus reveals limitations of rhetoric.
Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric
working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and
methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the
sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The
contributors engage with religious rhetorics-Jewish, Jesuit,
Buddhist, pagan-as well as rationalist, scientific, and postmodern
rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the Platonic
tradition, Thomas Hobbes's and Walter Benjamin's accounts of sacred
texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and Helene Cixous's
sacred passages and passwords. From these studies, new definitions
of the sacred emerge-along with new rhetorical practices for
engaging with the sacred. This book provides insight into the
relation of rhetoric and the sacred, showing the capacity of
rhetoric to study the ineffable but also shedding light on the
boundaries between them. In addition to the editors, the
contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif, Jean Bessette,
Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M. Gross, Kevin
Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R. Martel, Jodie
Nicotra, Ned O'Gorman, and Brooke Rollins.
With language we name and define all things, and by studying our
use of language, rhetoricians can provide an account of these
things and thus of our lived experience. The concept of the sacred,
however, raises the prospect of the existence of phenomena that
transcend the human and physical and cannot be expressed fully by
language. The sacred thus reveals limitations of rhetoric.
Featuring essays by some of the foremost scholars of rhetoric
working today, this wide-ranging collection of theoretical and
methodological studies takes seriously the possibility of the
sacred and the challenge it poses to rhetorical inquiry. The
contributors engage with religious rhetorics—Jewish, Jesuit,
Buddhist, pagan—as well as rationalist, scientific, and
postmodern rhetorics, studying, for example, divination in the
Platonic tradition, Thomas Hobbes’s and Walter Benjamin’s
accounts of sacred texts, the uncanny algorithms of Big Data, and
Hélène Cixous’s sacred passages and passwords. From these
studies, new definitions of the sacred emerge—along with new
rhetorical practices for engaging with the sacred. This book
provides insight into the relation of rhetoric and the sacred,
showing the capacity of rhetoric to study the ineffable but also
shedding light on the boundaries between them. In addition to the
editors, the contributors to this volume include Michelle Ballif,
Jean Bessette, Trey Conner, Richard Doyle, David Frank, Daniel M.
Gross, Kevin Hamilton, Cynthia Haynes, Steven Mailloux, James R.
Martel, Jodie Nicotra, Ned O’Gorman, and Brooke Rollins.
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