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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Dramatism"”.
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… sway. This research combined Burke's (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political blogs. The pentad highlighted an argument derived from each blogger's master narrative, while feminine style analysis revealed subtle differences among …
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Re/framing design trends : a Burkean meta-rhetorical approach
… framework, namely Burke’s dialectics, dramatism, rhetoric, criticism and ethics. A Burkean dialectical perspective on design trends offers foundational insights on how symbolic language creates ‘design dialectics’, which translate into dynamic design change over time. Burke’s …
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KIVA.ORG'S PERSUASIVE APPEAL: A BURKEAN ANALYSIS OF CHARITY PERSUASION
… 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 success. Despite being founded five years ago, it has raised …
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Scapegoating : in defense of oneself.
… rhetoric is examined in light of Kenneth Burke's dramatism and scapegoating concepts. Burke's analysis of Adolf Hitler's use of scapegoating is explained and expanded to include Milosevic's use of scapegoating. The men's motives for scapegoating are compared and contrasted by looking at Hitler's …
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Local newspapers and the restoration of order: Littleton after Columbine
… This analysis employed Kenneth Burke's dramatism, specifically the concept of mortification, to explain the symbolic cleansing of guilt that occurred in the community after the shootings. The study concluded that the local newspapers helped the community identify with the sin that had …
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The Middlestage: State-Sponsored Overseas Chinese Academics and China's Managed Cultural Globalisation
… (1956) theoretical frameworks of everyday dramatism such as the frontstage and the backstage, I adopt the middlestage as the primary conceptual lens of my investigation. The middlestage of China's managed cultural globalisation is examined as a fluid and embodied space where state-sponsored …
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Contraceptive Controversy in the Affordable Care Act: Sandra Fluke's Testimony and Rush Limbaugh's Response
… radio show are analyzed using Burke's theory of dramatism. Standpoint theory was used to elucidate the research questions that the pentad was used to answer. The specific ratio utilized was an agent/agency ratio and that ratio helps explain the success of Fluke's testimony because of Limbaugh's …
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Planting the Seeds of Surreality, Cultivating the Dynamism of a Nation: Winston Miranda and the Rhetoric of Resilience in Post-Revolutionary Nicaraguan Art
… primarily upon Kenneth Burke's (1969a) theory of dramatism, with components of art therapy and psychoanalysis incorporated to capture the overall essence of the painting aggregate. I also utilize Walter Benjamin's (1968) notion of translation to facilitate explanation of the ways in which Miranda …
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Gender, economic agency, and social class: A rhetorical analysis of Pearl Buck's The House of Earth Trilogy through the dramatistic pentad of Kenneth Burke
… an overview of Kenneth Burke’s theory of dramatism and the five pentadic terms – act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose. Using the pentadic ratios in conjunction with Burke’s theories of identification, mystery, hierarchy, and perfection, the succeeding chapters reveal how specific female …
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Religion, politics and Symbolic Performance: An Analysis Of The Work Of Archbishop Desmond Tutu From July 1989 To February 1990
… using the broad methodological framework of "Dramatism" as established by literary critic, Kenneth Burke. Burke's work is then expanded to incorporate performance theory as ~el1 as post-Burkian criticism to examine the range of impact of the leader of an oppositional culture in an established …
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BURKE'S REDEMPTIVE CYCLE OF RHETORIC APPLIED TO EIGHT FATWAS ISSUED BY SAUDI ARABIA REGARDING SAUDI PARTICIPATION IN THE FIRST GULF WAR
This master's thesis is a rhetorical analysis of eight fatwas issued by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, intended to legitimate the actions taken by the Saudi Government in regards to the first Persian Gulf War. Using Burke's redemptive cycle of rhetoric, this thesis analyzes the rhetorical …
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Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers
This dissertation presents a dramatistic critique of the various crises and challenges assaulting United States soldiers and the current U.S. construction of warrior heroism through the theoretical lens of “Equipment for Dying.” Equipment for Dying theorizes that each specific crisis or challenge …
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Patriotism, Courtesy of Toby Keith: The Voice of Country Music After September 11
In releasing the songs "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" and "American Soldier" in the aftermath of September 11, country artist Toby Keith enacts a tradition that has been established in the world of country music since the Civil War, that of producing wartime songs of …
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Burke, Rhetoric and The Doctor: A Rhetorical Analysis of Doctor Who
<p>This paper performs a rhetorical analysis of the science-fiction program, Doctor Who, using theories from Kenneth Burke. Series Five of the show is analyzed using Burke’s theory of identification, the representative anecdote and the dramatistic pentad. The analysis with identification theory …
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Philip Morris Faces "the truth": A Rhetorical Analysis of the Persuasiveness of Two Teen-Targeted Anti-Smoking Advertising Campaigns
<p>This thesis examines the persuasiveness of anti-smoking television advertisements aimed at teens and produced by Philip Morris's Youth Smoking Prevention Program and the American Legacy Foundation's truth campaign. The advertisements are analyzed rhetorically using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic …