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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Epideictic Rhetoric"”.
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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
<p>Traced to ancient scholarship, rhetoric, and the philosophy of communication and through interpretive perspectives, rhetoric, narrative and ethics have been established grounding of communication and social structures. IMC has emerged as a contemporary genre of epideictic rhetoric with ethical …
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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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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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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic rhetoric: speech which directs praise and blame towards individuals, things, and …
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The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury: Medieval Rhetoric as Educational Praxis
… what are the implications of John of Salisbury's rhetorical theory for his approach to education? The Metalogicon, John's defense of the trivium, represents the primary text analyzed throughout the project. John's medieval rhetorical theory explicated the reciprocal relationship between rhetoric …
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The pit, the field and the edifice : a rhetorical analysis of the commemorative 9/11 Ceremonies of September 11, 2002
… thesis analyzes the eulogistic and ideological rhetoric generated by the commemoration ceremonies recognizing the first anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. By evaluating these ceremonies generically through a set of established epideictic criteria, a comparison and contrast of form …
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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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Archiving the sacred: Austin Phelps and the adaptation of nineteenth-century rhetorical education at Andover Theological Seminary
… project expands the canon of nineteenth-century rhetorical history by providing a broadened understanding of how professional rhetoric was taught, learned, and practiced in nineteenth-century America. To do so, I examine the rhetorical theory, writing pedagogy, and pulpit oratory of Austin …
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Patriotism, Courtesy of Toby Keith: The Voice of Country Music After September 11
… I conducted an organic analysis of both songs as rhetorical acts produced and consumed within a particular rhetorical context. Because country music is fundamentally a discourse that celebrates the attitudes, values and experiences of its audience, I first analyzed these two songs as instances of …
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A Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean Baudrillard
… to argue that successful critics must consider rhetorical method as it relates to theory. Throughout this dissertation, I follow Edwin Black in using the term rhetorical method to describe the procedures a rhetor uses to guide composition. The project's two main goals are, first, to demonstrate …
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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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Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
… material in both Themistius’ and Claudian’s rhetoric have been underrated in recent scholarship. Both orators refer extensively to pagan gods, pagan mythology, pagan philosophers, and the literature of the pagan past. Most scholars however have preferred to play down, or even deny, that this …
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Set in Stone: Rhetorical Performances in Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial
This dissertation traces the rhetorical history of Virginia Tech's April 16th Memorial from its earliest appearance immediately following the April 16, 2007 shootings up to its present iteration as a permanent memorial on Virginia Tech's campus. Specifically, this study reveals how the April 16th …