The Tropes of War
Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture
Published on 29. April 2016
XII, 70 pages
978-1-137-55077-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 70 p.
File size
2,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-55077-4 (9781137550774)
DOI
10.1057/9781137550774
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
09/2015
Palgrave Pivot
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Person
Andrea Greenbaum, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Barry University, USA, where she teaches classes in fiction writing, cultural studies, gender, the graphic novel, war, and screenwriting. She is the co-editor of Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, author of Jews of South Florida, Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility and Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies. Recently, she was selected as a Fellow for the Sundance Screenwriter's Institute for her script, 36.
Content
Foreword, by Joseph D. Harris
Introduction
1. The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East
2. War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir
3. The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity
4. Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project
Conclusion: 'Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyberbole'
Afterword, by Michael J. Leitner
Introduction
1. The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East
2. War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir
3. The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity
4. Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project
Conclusion: 'Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyberbole'
Afterword, by Michael J. Leitner
