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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"American Jeremiad"”.
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Rhetorically Re(de)fining Dignity: Leon Kass and the American Jeremiad Against Human Genetic Enhancement
… essentially human. Employing the rhetoric of the American jeremiad, Kass makes affective appeals with doomsday fear tactics, American traditions, and a religious argumentative structure. The pressing ethical concerns with biotechnology demand new solutions to questions humans have not been forced …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… the dynamic and resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film participate in an …
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The growth and development of American satire: 1630-1895
The American predilection for ‘soft satire’ is well known. From Benjamin Franklin onwards American satirists have demonstrated a tolerance for human frailty unthinkable in the satires of the great Augustans. This thesis traces the growth and development of American satire from its beginnings in the …