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The Tropes of War

Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture

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  • © 2015

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  1. Andrea Greenbaum

    1. Barry University, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Mother of All Tropes: Visual Hyperbole and the Middle East

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 8-19

  4. War and the Graphic Novel: Memory as Enthymeme in Maus and Waltz with Bashir

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 20-29

  5. The War Documentary: Restrepo and the Synecdoche of Masculinity

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 30-39

  6. Metonymy of Peace: The Comic Book Peace Project

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 40-55

  7. Conclusion: Living in the Age of Babel: War, Rhetoric, and the Perils of Hyperbole

    • Andrea Greenbaum
    Pages 56-58

  8. Afterword

    • Michael J. Leitner
    Pages 59-61

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 62-70
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This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Barry University, USA

    Andrea Greenbaum

About the author

Andrea Greenbaum, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at Barry University, USA, where she teaches classes in fiction writing, cultural studies, gender, the graphic novel, war, and screenwriting. She is the co-editor of Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition Studies, author of Jews of South Florida, Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility and Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in Composition Studies. Recently, she was selected as a Fellow for the Sundance Screenwriter's Institute for her script, 36.

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