Culture, rhetoric, and the vicissitudes of life [Texte imprimé] / edited by Michael Carrithers

Notes bibliogr.

Internal rhetorics : constituting selves in diaries and beyond / Jean Nienkamp -- Story seeds and the inchoate / Michael Carrithers -- The diffuse in testimonies / Stevan M. Weine -- Medical rhetoric in the U.S. and Africa : the oncologist as Charon / Megan Biesele -- 'As if Goya was on hand as a marksman' : foot and mouth disease as a rhetorical and cultural phenomenon / Brigitte Nerlich -- The palaestral aspect of rhetoric / F.G. Bailey -- Ordeals of language / Ellen B. Basso -- Inventions of hyperbolic culture / Ralph Cintron -- Rhetoric in the moral order : a critique of tropological approaches to culture / James W. Fernandez