UID:
edocfu_9959870474302883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
0-271-08680-7
,
0-271-08678-5
Content:
"Examines 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"--
Note:
Introduction : toward an analytic conception of metanoia -- Taking it back : the history of rhetorical metanoia in the classical tradition and beyond -- Crucifying the old man : Christian metanoic testimony and the changing of the heart -- Finding yourself : metanoia, epistrophe, and the ontology of the modern ethos -- Conclusion : afterthoughts; past, present, and future selves.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-271-08592-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780271086804
