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UNINA9910822890603321 |
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Arguing with Numbers : The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics / / edited by James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes |
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University Park, Pa. : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2021 |
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©2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource , 1 online resource |
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RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric ; ; v.16 |
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Mathematics - Social aspects |
Rhetoric - Social aspects |
Essays. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Framing the Intersections -- 1 From Division to Multiplication: Uncovering the Relationship Between Mathematics and Rhetoric Through Transdisciplinary Scholarship -- 2 In What Ways Shall We Describe Mathematics as Rhetorical? -- Part 2: Rhetoric, Mathematics, and Public Culture -- 3 The Mathematization of the Invisible Hand: Rhetorical Energy and the Crafting of Economic Spontaneity -- 4 The Horizons of Judgment in Mathematical Discourse: Copulas, Economics, and Subprime Mortgages -- 5 The Ourang-Outang in the Rue Morgue: Charles Peirce, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Rhetoric of Diagrams in Detective Fiction -- Part 3: Mathematical Argument and Rhetorical Invention -- 6 Rhetoric and Mathematics in the Saturnian Account of Atomic Spectra -- 7 The New Mathematical Arts of Argument: Naturalistic Images and Geometric Diagrams -- Part 4: Mathematical Presentations: Experts and Lay Audiences -- 8 Accommodating Young Women: Addressing the Gender Gap in Mathematics with Female-Centered Epideictic -- 9 Turning Principles of Action into Practice: Examining the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Reform Rhetoric -- Contributors -- Index |
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As discrete fields of inquiry, rhetoric and mathematics have long been |
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considered antithetical to each other. That is, if mathematics explains or describes the phenomena it studies with certainty, persuasion is not needed. This volume calls into question the view that mathematics is free of rhetoric. Through nine studies of the intersections between these two disciplines, Arguing with Numbers shows that mathematics is in fact deeply rhetorical. Using rhetoric as a lens to analyze mathematically based arguments in public policy, political and economic theory, and even literature, the essays in this volume reveal how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions and how our worldviews influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept. In addition, contributors examine how concepts of rhetoric-such as analogy and visuality-have been employed in mathematical and scientific reasoning, including in the theorems of mathematical physicists and the geometrical diagramming of natural scientists. Challenging academic orthodoxy, these scholars reject a math-equals-truth reduction in favor of a more constructivist theory of mathematics as dynamic, evolving, and powerfully persuasive. By bringing these disparate lines of inquiry into conversation with one another, Arguing with Numbers provides inspiration to students, established scholars, and anyone inside or outside rhetorical studies who might be interested in exploring the intersections between the two disciplines.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Catherine Chaput, Crystal Broch Colombini, Nathan Crick, Michael Dreher, Jeanne Fahnestock, Andrew C. Jones, Joseph Little, and Edward Schiappa. |
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UNINA9910410027003321 |
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Harris Jessica L |
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Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945-1975 : The Italian Mrs. Consumer / / by Jessica L. Harris |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations |
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Italian and Italian American Studies, , 2635-294X |
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Italy - History |
Oral history |
Civilization - History |
Social history |
World history |
Sex |
History of Italy |
Oral History |
Cultural History |
Social History |
World History, Global and Transnational History |
Gender Studies |
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1. Introduction: Italy and the Arrival of Mrs. Consumer -- Part I -- 2. How to Read like Mrs. Consumer: Modernizing and Americanizing the Mondadori Publishing Company's Magazine Division -- 3. How to Shop and Dress like Mrs. Consumer: Rebuilding La Rinascente the American Way -- Part II -- 4. How to Shop, Store, and Cook Food like Mrs. Consumer: The Refrigerator, Women, and the Italian Home -- 5. How to Be Beautiful like Mrs. Consumer: American Beauty and Italian Women -- Part III -- 6. The Catholic and Communist Mrs. Consumer -- 7. Were |
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They Really Mrs. Consumers? -- 8. Conclusion. |
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This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the postwar and Cold War periods, eras marked by the political, economic, social, and cultural battle between the United States and Soviet Union. Focusing on various aspects of this culture-beauty and hygiene products, refrigerators, and department stores, as well as shopping and magazine models-the book examines the reasons for and the methods of American female consumer culture's arrival in Italy, the democratic, consumer capitalist messages its products sought to "sell" to Italian women, and how Italian women themselves reacted to this new cultural presence in their everyday lives. Did Italian women become the American Mrs. Consumer? As such, the book illustrates how the modern, consuming American woman became a significant figure not only in Italy's postwar recovery and transformation, but also in the international and domestic cultural and social contests for the hearts and minds of Italian women. |
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