{"product_id":"rhetoric-and-the-discourses-of-power-in-court-culture-9780295984506","title":"Rhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscussing the use of rhetoric in the royal courts of China, Europe, and Japan, this volume examines them as loci of power and as entities that establish, influence, or counter the norms of a larger society. It is organized into sections on the rhetoric of persuasion, taste, communication, gender, and natural nobility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture\u003c\/i\u003e represents a significant achievement. All the essays contained in the volume are lucid and generally jargon-free. Students and scholars of rhetoric and related fields will find it engaging, thought-provoking, and rewarding.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Rhetorical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by David R. Knechtges\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rhetoric of Persuasion\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Rhetoric of Imperial Abdication and Accession in a Third-Century Chinese Court: The Case of Cao Pi's Accession as Emperor of the Wei Dynasty by David R. Knechtges\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310-1330 by Scott L. Waugh\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Rhetoric of Taste\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century by Pauline Wu\u003cbr\u003e 4. Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijo Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise by Steven D. Carter\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong's Court by Ronald Egan\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Rhetoric of Communication\u003cbr\u003e 6. Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi by Robert Joe Cutter\u003cbr\u003e 7. Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age by Paul Edward Dutton\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court by Robert Borgen\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Rhetoric of Gender\u003cbr\u003e 9. One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li by Stephen Owen\u003cbr\u003e 10. Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations by Kuo-ying Wang\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility\u003cbr\u003e 11. Dante in God's Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road by Eugene Vance\u003cbr\u003e 12. Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics by Arjo Vanderjagt\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524695433559,"sku":"9780295984506","price":1100.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rhetoric-and-the-discourses-of-power-in-court-culture-9780295984506","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}