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Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies / The University of Michigan, Date: 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, good copy in near fine dust jacket, erasable pencil-notes to the text. 1988. Center for Japanese Studies / The University of Michigan ISBN 0271056223 9780271056227 [US]
Ann Arbor Center for Japanese Studies / The University of Michigan 1988 First printing Hardcover Good in Near Fine jacket Cloth in dust jacket, illustrated, good copy in near fine dust jacket, erasable pencil-notes to the text.
State College: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Date: 2012. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, fine copy in near fine dust jacket. 2012. The Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0271056223 9780271056227 [US]
State College The Pennsylvania State University Press 2012 First printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine jacket Cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
ISBN10: 0271056223, ISBN13: 9780271056227, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover Product DescriptionA bold recasting of prayer as a rhetorical art, Spiritual Modalities investigates situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to divine audiences. Examining how prayer works, Spiritual Modalities reads prayers situations and strategies, its characteristic acts and attitudes, to advance an understanding of prayer as a basic expression of our rhetorical capacities for communication and communion. This groundbreaking analysis demonstrates how prayer draws on fundamental capacities to engage other beings rhetorically to argue that we are never more human than when we address the nonhuman.Spiritual Modalities is notable in its aim to articulate a critical rhetoric of prayer in a secular idiom. It draws on contributions to rhetorical theory from Kenneth Burke along with a broad range of classical and contemporary perspectives on audience, address, speech acts, and modes of performance. The book also takes a multicultural and multimodal approach to prayer as rhetorical performance. The texts and practices of prayer represented range across religious traditions and historical eras and include both verbal and physical modes of divine address. The book will be of interest to scholars researching religious language, Burkean approaches to discourse, practices of memory, and media studies.ReviewSpiritual Modalities shows what rhetoric has to off ...
ISBN10: 0271056223, ISBN13: 9780271056227, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover Like New [Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]
ISBN10: 0271056223, ISBN13: 9780271056227, [publisher: Penn State University Press] Hardcover 0271056223 [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2012]
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