Rhetorical Mosaic for a Kaleidoscope of Sound: Poetry as a Road to Understanding the Prose Voice (American University Studies) - Hardcover

Britt, Jane

9780820423838: Rhetorical Mosaic for a Kaleidoscope of Sound: Poetry as a Road to Understanding the Prose Voice (American University Studies)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820423831 ISBN 13: 9780820423838

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1994

This work employs drama and imagination to guide the reader to the discovery of voice. Through this consciousness, the reader is involved in the role of poetry and rhetoric in the comprehension of prose from Homer, Plato and the Bible to John Henry Newman, James Joyce and Norman Mailer and in the role of autobiography in developing a philosophy of life. From these an interest in methods develops. Voice and image unite to challenge today's visual orthodoxy by moving the reader beyond typography to a secondary orality described by Walter Ong in the work's inspiration, Orality and Literacy.

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About the Author:

The Author: John F. Britt is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Dayton. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from St. Louis University and his S.T.D. in Theology with a specialization in Marian Studies and John Henry Newman from the International Marian Research Institute (IMRI), the American branch of the Marianum in Rome, located at the University of Dayton. As a member of the Friends of Newman and the Catholic Theological Society of America he has contributed a variety of works on poetry, rhetoric and Newman, including John Henry Newman's Rhetoric published by Peter Lang Publishing.

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