{"product_id":"still-life-with-rhetoric-laurie-gries-9780874219777","title":"Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics","description":"Winner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized \"visual text\" functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Fairey's now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into various relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While intent on tracking the rhetorical life of a single, multiple image, \u003ci\u003eStill Life with Rhetoric \u003c\/i\u003eis most concerned with studying rhetoric in motion. To account for an image's widespread circulation and emergent activities, Gries introduces iconographic tracking-a digital research method for tracing an image's divergent rhetorical becomings. Yet Gries also articulates a dynamic set of theoretical principles for studying rhetoric as a distributed, generative, and unforeseeable event that is applicable beyond the study of visual rhetoric. With an eye toward futurity-the strands of time beyond a thing's initial moment of production and delivery-\u003ci\u003eStill Life with Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e intends to be taken up by those interested in visual rhetoric, research methods, and theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie Gries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0874219779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780874219777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Utah State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/27\/2015 pg. 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Laurie Gries","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46546119393535,"sku":"9780874219777","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c60f1ad-179d-4ad6-8c11-45b94a43f4d2.jpg?v=1738184174","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/still-life-with-rhetoric-laurie-gries-9780874219777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}