{"id":201,"date":"2017-09-04T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/?page_id=201"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:40:28","slug":"t-kenny-fountain","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/profiles\/t-kenny-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"T. Kenny Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Title: <\/strong>Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n

University: <\/strong>Case Western Research University<\/p>\n

Email: <\/strong>tkenny.fountain@case.edu<\/p>\n

Twitter: <\/strong>TKennyFountain<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>http:\/\/tkennyfountain.typepad.com\/<\/p>\n

Description of Work:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In 2014, I published Rhetoric in the Flesh<\/i>, an ethnographic study of the gross anatomy lab, which examined how rhetorical discourses, multimodal displays, and embodied practices facilitate learning and technical expertise, while shaping participants\u2019 perceptions of the human body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, I am working on two larger projects. The first is an analysis of the visual and verbal rhetoric of Andreas Vesalius\u2019 De <\/i>humani<\/i> corporis<\/i> fabric<\/i> (1543, 1555) in light of the classical rhetorical tradition that informed early modern European education, with a specific focus on the ways Vesalius negotiates the tension between tradition and innovation through the incorporation of praeteritio<\/i> or paralepsis<\/i> as a kind of deep rhetorical impulse.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My next book project \u2013 “To See What is Persuasive: Politics, Affect,<\/i> and the Rhetorical Imagination<\/i>“<\/i>\u202f\u2013 is only partially related to medical rhetoric. In it, I examine how political discourse moves us by shaping our emotional and imaginative responses to the world. I do this by reading contemporary political texts in light of the Roman rhetorical concept of\u202fenargeia<\/i>, or the quality of vivid description that seeks to \u201cbring before the eyes\u201d some absent or non-existent object, person, or event. According to Cicero, Quintilian, and Longinus, words most powerfully shape belief and action not through reasoned arguments, but through a kind of verbal vivacity that brings to mind the memories, cultural knowledge, and even prejudices we use to make sense of the world. Each chapter combines explications of classical concepts with analysis of such texts as (1) Wendy Davis\u2019s 11-hour filibuster (2013) of a Texas anti-abortion bill, Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 Between the World and Me<\/i> (2015), the Human Rights Campaign\u2019s \u201cStop the Hate\u201d video honoring the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting (2016), and a constellation of texts involved in PizzaGate, a fraudulent online conspiracy suggesting that a D.C.-area pizza shop with ties to Hilary Clinton was a front for a pedophilia ring. In this project, I\u202fhope to demonstrate how compelling and sometimes troubling forms of political persuasion are enacted when rhetors invite us to see and feel through processes of imaginative and affective\u202fengagement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Symposium Submission:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Title: Associate Professor of English University: Case Western Research University Email: tkenny.fountain@case.edu Twitter: TKennyFountain Website: http:\/\/tkennyfountain.typepad.com\/ Description of Work: In 2014, I published Rhetoric in the Flesh, an ethnographic study … Continue reading “T. Kenny Fountain”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-201","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201\/revisions\/697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/symposium2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}