{"product_id":"the-homesick-phone-book-addressing-rhetorics-in-the-age-of-perpetual-conflict","title":"The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner  RSA Book Award  2017  Terrorist attacks  war  and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In The Homesick Phone Book  author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric  logic  argument  and the teaching of writing  Haynes illuminates rhetorics ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world  both in the Holocaust era and more recently.  Each chapter  marked by a physical address  functions as a kind of expanded phone book entry  with a discussion of violent events at a particular location giving way to explorations of larger questions related to rhetoric and violence. At the core of the work is Hayness call for a writing pedagogy based on abstraction that would allow students to appeal to emotional and ethical grounds in composing arguments. Written in a lyrical style  the book weaves rhetorical theories  poetics  philosophy  works of art  and personal experience into a complex  compelling  and innovative mode of writing.  Ultimately  The Homesick Phone Book demonstrates how scholars of rhetoric and writing studies can break their dependence on conventional argument and logic to discover what might be possible if we dive into and become lost within the very concepts and events that frighten and terrorize us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985206210613,"sku":"ByrdShop_0809335085","price":50.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780809335084.jpg?v=1770852072","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-homesick-phone-book-addressing-rhetorics-in-the-age-of-perpetual-conflict","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}