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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Burkean"”.
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Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush
… fact, the show’s efforts are mostly comedic, in Burkean terms, and lend themselves more toward a happy romp than a scathing criticism. Since the show’s target audience is “the irony demo,” a slice of society whose political knowledge is gained from consumption of entertainment than it is from …
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Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush
… fact, the show’s efforts are mostly comedic, in Burkean terms, and lend themselves more toward a happy romp than a scathing criticism. Since the show’s target audience is “the irony demo,” a slice of society whose political knowledge is gained from consumption of entertainment than it is from …
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KIVA.ORG'S PERSUASIVE APPEAL: A BURKEAN ANALYSIS OF CHARITY PERSUASION
Kiva.org's (Kiva) success is explained using two rhetorical constructs based on Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism as tailored to charity appeals: simplification (reducing of the representative anecdote) and completion (redeeming a hierarchy). These two constructs explain Kiva's unprecedented …
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Re/framing design trends : a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach
… developed in this study, referred to as a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach, is thus used towards re-framing attitudes towards and engagements with design trends. The framework is illustrated throughout the study by referring to visual design examples as well as verbal discourse surrounding …
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The Feminine Mistake: Burkean Frames in Phyllis Schlafly's Equal Rights Amendment Speeches
Situated within the larger scholarship on the women's liberation movement of the 1970s exists a body of literature that analyzes the rhetorical functions of pro- and anti- Equal Rights Amendment messages in relation to communication studies. Although limited in scope, this literature acknowledges …
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Exploring The Influence of Burkean Aesthetics on Late Eighteenth-Century British Representations of India and North America
… new insights upon how colonial politics and Burkean aesthetics were rhetorically deployed in the late eighteenth century. It also actively participates in the recovery process for several novelists whose work has only recently begun to receive critical attention. My study does not focus on …
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The Legacy of the Burkean Sublime: Representations of British Spaces and Landscapes in a Contemporary Art Practice
… to nature are explored through the prism of the Burkean Sublime, as are contemporary events which give these spaces context in the twenty-first century. The thesis argues that Burke’s flawed attempt to impose strict laws and very narrow limits on the recalcitrant material of the passions is more …
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Ethical Elitism: A Burkean Analysis of the Rhetorical Construction of a Moral Persona in the First Term of President George W. Bush
<p>On November 4, 2004, President George W. Bush won re-election. According to exit polls, a majority of people who voted for Bush over his opponent, Senator John Kerry, did so because they believed that Bush was the “moral values” candidate. In this dissertation, I assess the moral persona that …
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Ambrose Bierce: Between politics and philosophy
… claim there has always existed a small strain of Burkean conservatism throughout American political history. This study supports the latter view by holding the political thought of Ambrose Bierce closely follows the conservative philosophy of Burke and other British conservatives.
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
… bring them together in moments of Burkean identification. These moments of identification are also analyzed in terms of communal and generational memory, temporal proximity, and communal discourses. An important conclusion in this study is that this rhetorical production of identity …
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The vision we share: Identification of Call of Duty's militaristic messages
… analysis of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare using a Burkean analysis and a critical analysis to determine that Modern Warfare’s use of the first-person perspective to invite players to identify with the messages presented within the gameplay and story of the series. Using Ian Bogost’s notions of …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
… terms of submission and diminution instated by Burkean aesthetics. In turn, the disabled female gains purchase in literature due to her “liminal, between-categories status” as it strains masculine power structures and aesthetic and gender classification systems.
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Creating a terministic screen of "mothering" in Nella Larsen's Passing and Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life
… novels garners even less attention. Using the Burkean concept of “terministic screens,” this dissertation seeks to create such a screen for the term “mothering” based on the characters found within the two novels. Consideration is paid to cultural concepts of the time, criticism of the novels, …
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James and Jude: a Rhetorical Dramatistic and Metaphoric Analysis
… theory of metaphoric t hought. Jude received a Burkean internal pentadic analysis, which suggested that the author relied on an act-agency ratio to describe doctrinal error. Among the textual conclusions apparent from these analyses are that James is more unified textually than previously …
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VILIFYING OBAMACARE: CONSERVATIVE TROPES OF VICTIMAGE IN THE 2009 HEALTH CARE DEBATES
… care reform movement. This project applies Burkean theories about identification and vilification to examine the destructive power that conservative tropes and victimhood rhetoric have on the ability to engage in productive discourse in the political sphere. I examine three episodes in the …
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British women’s travel writings in the era of the French Revolution
… Revolution degenerated into Terror and wars, the Burkean view became the main strand of British women travellers’ political thinking. Under the threat of Revolutionary France and during the Napoleonic Wars, a popular conservatism and patriotism developed in Britain. Part Three will use the travel …
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MARK TWAIN'S SPEAKING IN THE DARK YEARS (COMMUNICATION, RHETORIC, MOVEMENTS).
… his role to that of political activist. Using a Burkean perspective, Twain's anti-imperialist rhetoric is analyzed. His private philosophy dictated the use of two ratios. Though he did not successfully defeat the imperialists, he was effective in rallying and unifying the anti-imperialist forces. …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of Theodore Hesburgh's Fund-Raising Speeches for the University of Notre Dame
… assumes a rhetorical design, specifically the Burkean dramatistic approach to analyze Theodore Hesburgh's fund-raising speeches to the alumni of the University of Notre Dame. Data were Hesburgh’s fund-raising speeches that he gave to the alumni.</p> <p><em>Conclusion. </em>Hesburgh’s formula …
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