{"product_id":"tense-times-9780817321673","title":"Tense Times","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline - the worst seems always yet to come and already here. \u003cem\u003eTense Times\u003cem\u003e argues that the ways we discuss these crises, especially through verb tenses, not only contribute to our perception and description of such crises but create them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pierce’s approach to cultural analysis brings together rhetorical and critical theory in fresh ways while always attending to close reading and careful textual analysis of cultural events.” - Sharon J. Kirsch, author of \u003ci\u003eGertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e\"Lee M. Pierce integrates the disciplines of grammar and of rhetoric in this ground breaking new volume. And she uses that scholarly integration to show how some productive research may inform our current cultural and political crisis, in her book \u003ci\u003eTense Times: Syntax and Suprise in American Crisis Culture\u003c\/i\u003e. This book will be of value to scholars in English, Linguistics, Communication, Rhetoric, and Politics at the very least. Its readability will make it useful in the classroom as well.\"—Barry Brummett is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Rhetoric of Style\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Apocalyptic Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRhetoric of Machine Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe World and How We Describe It\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRhetorical Homologies\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577625219415,"sku":"9780817321673","price":79.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817321673.jpg?v=1746096003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tense-times-9780817321673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}