A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric
The Word between the Worlds
1st Edition
Published on 23. August 2021
XXX, 170 pages
978-3-030-69679-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida's hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect theory and how each of those ideas have been applied. The book then moves into discussing the unique elements of the rhetorical framework known as the rhetorrectional situation. Three case studies taken from the Christian tradition, serve to demonstrate how spectral rhetoric works. The first is fictional, C.S. Lewis '
The Great Divorce
. The second is non-fiction, Tim Jennings '
The God Shaped Brain
. The final one is taken from homiletics, Bishop Michael Curry's royal wedding 2018 sermon. After the case studies conclusion offers the reader a summary and ideas future applications for spectral rhetoric.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XXX, 170 p.
File size
2,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-030-69679-5 (9783030696795)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-69679-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
08/2021
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Person
Seth Pierce is Assistant Professor of Communication and Communication Program Director at Union College, Nebraska, USA. Prior to completing his Ph.D. in communication he served as a pastor. He is also the author of Seeking an Understanding: How to Have Difficult Conversations Without Destroying Your Relationships (2020) .
Content
1. Hauntroduction: The Word Between the Worlds.- 2. Ghost Map.- 3. Phantomimetic Theory.- 4. The Rhetorrectional Situation.- 5. Somebody's Watching Me: Visor Affect.- 6. The Spectrality of the Sophists: Double Kairos and Timely Untimeliness.- 7. The Art of G/hosting: Phantomime.- 8.Transtextual Hautnting: Revenance.- 9. Casket Case #1: The Ghost of C.S. Lewis: Spectral Rhetoric in the Great Divorce.- 10. Casket Case #2: The Ghost Shaped Brain.- 11. Casket Case #3: House of Sacred Remains: Spectral Rhetoric and Phantomime in Bishop Michael Curry's Wedding Homily.- Conclusion: Future Hauntings.
