Description
Book SynopsisExamines the concept of metanoia as both a rhetorical figure of speech and a critical tool for the analysis of self-reinventions of all kinds, including conversions related to race, sex, religion, and politics.
Trade Review“Ellwanger offers an original and provocative contribution to the study of metanoia that extends our understanding of the relation between epistrophe and metanoia significantly and places metanoia in productive tension with the concept of ethos. Ellwanger is at his very best in his practice of ‘paratactical rhetorical analysis,’ placing conceptions of metanoia side by side to facilitate a clearer understanding of personal transformation, and he is a master of creating a narrative of his analysis.”
—Lisa Storm Villadsen,coeditor of Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship
Table of ContentsForeword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Analytic Conception of Metanoia
1. Taking It Back: The History of Rhetorical Metanoia in the Classical Tradition and Beyond
2. Crucifying the Old Man: Christian Metanoic Testimony and the Changing of the Heart
3. Finding Yourself: Metanoia, Epistrophe, and the Ontology of the Modern Ethos
Conclusion: Afterthoughts; Past, Present, and Future Selves
Notes
Bibliography
Index
