Roberts Alterity and Narrative

Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7951-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Negotiating Identity: Discourses, Politics, Processes, and Praxes

Intertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Kathleen Glenister

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Identity, Alterity, and Narrative

1. Soteria, the Mother as Other: Medea in Ancient Greece (and Beyond)

2. A Man Cannot Be a Prophet in His Own Country: Saint Paul and Universalism

3. The Curses of Medieval Man: Reverberations from the Tower of Babel

4. Fierce Warriors: The Other as Comrade in Othello and World War II

5. The Enlightenment Noble Savage: Diderot’s Tahiti and Other Imaginary Locales

6. Modernity, Industry, and the Fatal Flaw: The Rise of Entropology in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

7. The Rhetoric of Possibility: Trickster, the Postmodern Hero

Conclusion: Intercultural Hope: Alterity Post-9/11

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kathleen Glenister Roberts is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies and Director of the Communication Ethics Center at Duquesne University.