{"product_id":"still-life-with-rhetoric-book-laurie-gries-9780874219777","title":"Still Life with Rhetoric","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWinner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50128160129297,"sku":"CIN0874219779G","price":8.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50908830007569,"sku":"CIN0874219779A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326649827601,"sku":"CIN0874219779VG","price":8.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52327185514769,"sku":"NLS9780874219777","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0874219779.jpg?v=1751139943","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/still-life-with-rhetoric-book-laurie-gries-9780874219777","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}