Quiet Defiance
The Rhetoric of Silent Protest
- Hardcover
410 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2025
Summary
Quiet Defiance: The Rhetoric of Silent Protest focuses on the rhetorical dimensions and power of silent protest. Bridging the gap between the study of protest and the study of rhetorical silence (strategic silence meant to communicate to and influence an audience), this book is the first of its kind to concentrate solely on the phenomenon and tradition of silent protest. The contributors to this volume hail from different cultures, disciplines, and fields. They examine past and prese…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781666938999 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1666938998 |
| Author: | David W. Seitz, D. Graham Burnett, Satarupa Dasgupta, Nune Grigoryan, Alicia K. Hatcher, Annie Hui, Stephen K. Hunt, Dafna Kaufman, David Landes |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 410 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Quiet Defiance: A Rhetoric Silent Protest is a thought-provoking collection, offering insight into forms of silent resistance that range from blank signs to prison strikes to nonvoting. Individual chapters offer fresh perspective on these and other cases. As a whole, the collection takes seriously and engages meaningfully with the scholarly traditions around each of its key terms, rhetoric, silence, and protest, and will be an invaluable resource for scholars interested in these areas. – Michelle Gibbons, University of New Hampshire
These essays are both focused and far-reaching, suggesting new avenues for the study of both protest rhetoric and nonverbal/non-logocentric rhetoric. In a world with almost too many words, sometimes a lack of words can speak most powerfully … Highly recommended [for] general readers through faculty; professionals. * CHOICE *
About The Author
David W. Seitz
David W. Seitz is associate professor of communication at Penn State Mont Alto.
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