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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Encomium."”.
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The City Encomium in Medieval and Humanist Spain
… to the classical, oratorical model for a city encomium was effected in Spain by way of the Italian humanist example. Bruni's <em>laus urbis</em> for Florence (1404), and the subsequent imitations of it on behalf of Milan, Basel and Genoa, were adapted by five Spanish humanist authors who wrote …
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Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae
ABSTRACT Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae This thesis examines the Encomium Emmae reginae primarily through the lens of demonstrative behaviour, which covers the gamut of actions from formal ceremonies to social rituals to individual acts of verbal and non-verbal …
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Malo a quibusdam de loquacitate redargui, quam veritatem memorabilis rei per me omnibus occultari : "Encomium Emmae Reginae" : continuidad y ruptura del discurso historiográfico clásico
Este trabajo estudia el llamado Encomium Emmae Reginae , atendiendo a la tradición retórica e historiográfica que nutre el discurso, buscando, a partir de las reflexiones hechas por su autor en el prólogo, verificar los límites e interferencias de ambas disciplinas en el discurso. Partiremos para …
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Lessing's theory of polemic
… of Lessing's position. Because Gorgias's Encomium of Helen and Plato's Gorgias present two opposition positions on rhetoric, these works provide a focus for my discussion of the conflict between rhetoric and philosophy evident in Lessing's formulation of his views on polemic.
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Objects That Endure: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Seasonal Domesticity
… of epideictic (ceremonial rhetoric) and encomium (rhetorics of praise) by focusing on communicative acts that embody not only “‘by a constellation of forms,’ but by a constellation of purposes: preservation, education, celebration, and aesthetic creation.” These constellations allow …
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Quilts as Visual Texts
… one that could be a political position, an encomium, a synthesis, an analysis, or even an argument in Blair’s narrow definition. The act of quilting and its resultant meaning will be explored in Chapter 4 “Embodiment: How the Act of Quilting Makes Meaning,” which will discuss meaning in …
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Epinician precepts: a study of Chiron and the wise adviser in Pindar
… to the poet's creation of a 'paraenetic encomium'. Secondly, this study of the reception and remodelling of the paraenetic tradition in Pindar illuminates the distinctive character of his advice and its central importance in Pindar's construction of poetic and moral authority.
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Exploring Johannine ethics : a rhetorical approach to moral efficacy in the Fourth Gospel narrative.
Facilitating a fresh approach to the long-standing "problem" of Johannine ethics, this project utilizes rhetorical analysis to explore the ways of thinking and living that the Fourth Gospel narrative would likely have engendered. The study addresses the scarcity of explicit ethical material in John …