Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.
Review Quotes: "In film criticism, identifying the rhetor or the rhetor's intent can be difficult, but Kaplan accomplishes the task. Extensive endnotes offer both citations and substantive extensions of Kaplan's ideas."
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"[This book] takes on a major theme in modern democratic theory, offering an engaging argument that the widely acknowledged flaws of liberal democracy offer 'rhetorical features that function as productive cultural and political resources.' Kaplan demonstrates how this works in close examinations of four popular films. It seems to me that Kaplan's work will itself prove to be highly productive, both for the theoretical claims he advances and for the model of rhetorical analysis he offers."--Thomas W. Benson, editor of
American Rhetoric: Context and Criticism
