St. Ignatius' Quill Pen: Exploring the Orality-Literacy Difficulty in the Spiritual Exercises

<p>Informed by the work of Walter Ong, in the <em>first prelude</em> of the <em>First Week</em> in the <em>Spiritual Exercises</em>, St. Ignatius of Loyola used an emblematical image, the “prison-cage”, to provide phenomenological accounts for the exercitants to examine the existential situation within. This dissertation explores into the difficulty of being rhetorical in mediating on the existential situation emblematically. I try to understand the orality-literacy dynamic within the <em>Exercises</em> through the theoretical framework of semiotic phenomenology. The Ignatian emblematics can be understood as phenomenological descriptions that asked the exercitants to provide the parts of moral-phenomenological reductions and phenomenological interpretations within personalism.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication and Rhetorical Studies

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Qian, Hongchao

Contributors dc:contributor

• Janie Harden Fritz
• Ronald C. Arnett
• Erik Garrett

• The Spiritual Exercises
• Orality and Literacy
• Emblem
• Semiotic Phenomenology
• Personalism
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1870

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2880