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perspective by incongruity: a standalone construct

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Rhetoric

a method of gaining new insight by joining terms or categories normally kept apart.

In rhetoric, perspective by incongruity refers to a method of gaining new insight by joining terms or categories normally kept apart. This meaning comes from Burke (1935) in Permanence and change.[1]

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  1. Burke, K. (1935). Permanence and change. Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 9780520041448

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