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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Epideictic"”.
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Objects That Endure: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Seasonal Domesticity
… placements, and ability to endure through epideictic means, I hope to uncover how objects, within domestic spaces, both reflect and become part of cultural value-based narratives writ large. Although this dissertation leans heavily into visual analysis and the histories of objects and their …
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Praising Girls: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
… texts of these schoolgirls can be construed as epideictic rhetoric, a form of persuasive discourse historically associated with prominent men delivering speeches of praise and blame that construct community. Using print as a podium, girls at four diverse secondary schools in the Kansas City area …
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Advertising as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Communication
In the ancient sense, epideictic rhetoric was considered as a simple opposition to pragmatic discourse, which predominantly was involved with public business. Public business refers to the matters of the polis and the political setting. On the other hand, epideictic does not address to the …
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Integrated Marketing Communication as Epideictic Rhetoric and Its Implications for Ethical Branding
… IMC has emerged as a contemporary genre of epideictic rhetoric with ethical obligations to our postmodern polis. Through the redefining of the branding metaphor within an ethical, grounded and narrative framework, the focus on ethos and connection to the audience through Schrag’s “fitting …
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The Noble and the Base: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Character of Regimes
… dissertation seeks to understand the role of epideictic rhetoric in American liberal democracy. Using Aristotle’s theory of the epideictic, I examine epideictic speeches given during times of crisis and in times of relative peace fortifying American ends. I demonstrate the significant …
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Epideictic Space: Community, Memory, and Future Invention at Civil War Tourist Sites
… War tourist spaces in order to describe how epideictic rhetoric has distinct spatial functions that affect the identity of tourists. Through an analysis of three Civil War spaces in Virginia--Lexington, Appomattox Court House, and the Museum of the Confederacy--I argue epideictic space is a …
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Dr Sam Nujoma's rhetoric: An analysis of selected epideictic speeches during his tenure of office as President of the Republic of Namibia
… presidential rhetorical analysis in Namibia. Ten epideictic speeches delivered by the former President Dr Sam Nujoma during his first two terms of Presidential rule in Namibia from 1990 to 2000 are rhetorically analysed in this study. The purpose of the analysis was twofold: to find out to what …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic rhetoric: speech which directs praise and blame towards individuals, things, and actions. Chapter One examines Abraham Cowley's affective poetics within his Davideis, showing how his biblical epic transforms the traditional links between …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
The following is an exploration of the use of epideictic rhetoric strategies in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s <i>The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits</i>, and Harriet Martineau’s <i>Household Education</i>. In examining the rhetoric of the …
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Woman is a Parable
… African Womanist Perspective consonant with an Epideictic Rhetoric approach. Through this perspective the social position of women in parables based on an androcentric world is explored. However, this position is challenged by a womanist perspective. Because it is challenged, the process of …
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Cancel culture: posthuman hauntologies in digital rhetoric and the latent values of virtual community networks
This study explores how modern epideictic practices enact latent community values by analyzing modern call-out culture, a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals responsible for perceived politically incorrect behavior via social media, and cancel culture, a boycott of such behavior …
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The pit, the field and the edifice : a rhetorical analysis of the commemorative 9/11 Ceremonies of September 11, 2002
… generically through a set of established epideictic criteria, a comparison and contrast of form and style in relation to their varying situations and rhetorical constraints was achieved. The intentional introduction of deliberative aspects to epideictic rhetoric was also a focus of this …
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Set in Stone: Rhetorical Performances in Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial
… has negotiated tensions and fusions between the epideictic and deliberative genres that exist within its bounds. In doing so, the memorial asks audiences to honor and remember the dead while also compelling audiences to deliberate over the social and political issues punctuated by the tragedy. …
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Patriotism, Courtesy of Toby Keith: The Voice of Country Music After September 11
… I first analyzed these two songs as instances of epideictic rhetoric. As an epideictic rhetor, Keith reinforces the traditional values of the country music audience, uniting them in celebration of the communal identity that renders them a rhetorical community. That shared identity enables Keith to …
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Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
… presidential speeches have tended to posit an epideictic ideal: eloquent expressions meant to bring a diverse citizenry an ideal, if not reality, of unity. The American presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama each combined elements of taste, common sense, …
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… The Metalogicon: An Artifact of Medieval Epideictic Rhetoric," examines The Metalogicon as a composition representing medieval epideictic rhetoric. John offered an account of his educational experiences in which he praised teachers who promoted the liberal arts, blamed teachers who …
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Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" speech: A rhetorical analysis
… critique discusses how Reagan's masterful epideictic and deliberative speech reestablished his commitment to conservative values and justified his position in the nuclear freeze debate.
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
… Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, many epideictic, forensic, and deliberative devices and speeches. These orations reveal a more nuanced and complex characterization of these kings than just tragic hero, usurper, and ideal monarch.</p>
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Lucretius's moral philosophy as it appears in the formal similarities between Milton and Lucretius.
… the medium of poetry, and both employ the epideictic rhetorical method of praising desirable behavior and blaming undesirable behavior. Finally, both selectively engage natural philosophy as needed to support their religious claims. The fundamental difference between Milton and Lucretius is …
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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… education, I propose that Phelps's use of epideictic rhetoric as a means of teaching students to influence values in the civic sphere could provide contemporary writing instructors with a method for teaching students to bring their personal commitments to bear on public conversations. By …
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