<!doctype html public «-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en»> http-equiv=content-type> Irritation and destabilization can unsettle established opinions, attitudes, and behaviors. The contributions in this volume seek to study this phenomenon further by examining a range of literary and vernacular texts, with particular attention to topics related to rhetoric and literary theory, as well as pedagogical and linguistic issues. Essays investigate topics such as the rhetoric of persuasion and literary poetics of destabilization .
