Still Life with Rhetoric

Winner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award   In  Still Life with Rhetoric , Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized “visual text” functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, g