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Rhetorical fractures : designing for social movement growth using ancient and contemporary tools
… people, and organizations. These genres include ancient rhetoric, enterprise design theory including stakeholder salience frameworks, social movement theory, and network science consisting of game and graph theory. The purpose of the thesis is to better understand the foundational forms that …
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Adaptation and alienation : persuasive strategies and audience responses in the rhetorical handbooks, Polybius, Josephus, and the Acts of the Apostles.
This dissertation evaluates the rhetorical strategies and persuasive impact of speeches in the Acts of the Apostles and select other ancient Greek historical narratives against the template provided by Greco-Roman rhetorical theory regarding the ways in which orators should adapt their speeches to …
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Where is Socrates going? : the philosophy of conversion in Plato's "Euthydemus".
This work examines the aim of Socratic philosophy in Plato's Euthydemus. To understand the conflict that occurs in the dialogue between Socrates and his sophistic rivals, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, one must evaluate Socrates' overarching goal and its divergence from sophistry. The author argues, …
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Imitation pedagogy: The ongoing debate
Imitation was one of the five teaching methods passed down from the Greeks and was, from antiquity down to the nineteenth century, highly respected among scholars and educators. However, imitation has lost status as a viable pedagogy, and especially perhaps in the field of composition studies.