John Quincy Adams
(1767–1848)US Republican statesman, 6th President of the USA (1825–29). The eldest son of President John Adams, he was minister to Britain (1809–14). As Secretary of State (1817–24) he helped to ...
Perspective by incongruity Reference library
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric
...Advocacy 29 (1993), pp. 195–203. Compares perspective by incongruity to Richard Rorty's notion of “edifying discourse,” and proposes a Burkeian alternative to traditional ways of linking evidence and claims in argumentation theory. Miller, Keith D. , and Kevin Quashie . “ Slave Mutiny as Argument, Argument as Fiction, Fiction as America: The Case of Frederick Douglass's ‘The Heroic Slave.’ ” Southern Communication Journal 63 (1998), pp. 199–207. Uses Burke's concept to interpret Frederick Douglass's strategies in both his oratorical and fictional works....
