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The Rhetoric of Emotions: A Dramatistic Exploration book cover

1st Edition

The Rhetoric of Emotions A Dramatistic Exploration

By Robert Perinbanayagam Copyright 2016
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge
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Kenneth Burke, founder of the critical method of dramatism, believed that motives and attitudes are constantly generated by individuals as they encounter social situations and material objects in the course of their everyday lives. In The Rhetoric of Emotions , Robert Perinbanayagam proposes that by analysing individuals' experiences, especially through their interaction with creative outlets,... Read more

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 The Rhetorical Attitude
2 Acts, Scenes, and Emotions
3 Identity and Emotions in Dialogue
4 The Dialogic of Madness: Quantum Mechanics, Mirror Neurons, and Emotions
5 Identity and the Dialogic of Looking, Reading, and Watching
6 Revels and Raptures

References

Index

Biography

Robert Perinbanayagam

'The author writes on a grander scale and has achieved considerable respect within the symbolic interaction-ist community by doing so...I am in fact enthusiastic about this fasci-nating work, and I hope that others will not only read it, but also explore more deeply the enchantments within the grand interhuman caverns where Perinbanayagam, in this and many other volumes, has scattered the light of his imagination.'
Robert Wade Kenny, University of Pittsburgh, Symbolic Interaction

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