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Aristotelianism in the Rhetorical Theory of Kenneth Burke
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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
… realities. Twentieth-century rhetorician Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical theory of the dramatistic pentad, along with his theories of identification, mystery, hierarchy, and perfection, are applied to The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided to examine Buck’s rhetorical practices. This study …
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The forensic Burke: A for(u)mative member of the parlor
… this study, I detail the forensics education of Kenneth Burke, a leading rhetorical theorist and critic of the twentieth century. After investigating this previously unexamined area, I argue that Burke’s competitive forensics experiences pivotally informed his rhetorical schema. Theoretically …
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A Dialectical Study of the Formalist Character of Kenneth Burke's Critical Theory and Practice
This study challenged the conventional view that Kenneth Burke and the New Critics represent divergent approaches to the theory and practice of criticism. By using a telescoping dialectical method, this study unearthed considerable correspondence between Burke and the New Critics. Overall, this …
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… I argue that these four novels perform as what Kenneth Burke calls “equipment for living”—that is, literary works that interrogate and explore the sociocultural crises concurrent with their production. Mary Shelley wrote her novels immediately after the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, and …
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Post-September 11<sup>th</sup> representations of Latin American immigrants in political discourse: An analysis of metaphor
… immigrants. The rhetorical philosophy of Kenneth Burke, Haig Bosmajian’s <em>The Language of Oppression</em>, and a study conducted in 1999 by Otto Santa Ana provide the framework for analyzing the power of the dominant and secondary metaphors found in these documents. Furthermore, this …
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Changes in the rhetoric of realism : Henry Kissinger on MFN trade renewal for China.
… of realist rhetoric are examined by employing Kenneth Burke's (1966) concepts of communication. This thesis concludes by offering explanations of the factors that motivated the shift in Kissinger's rhetoric, and by highlighting the implications of these changes for the structure of realist …
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Burke, Rhetoric and The Doctor: A Rhetorical Analysis of Doctor Who
… 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 exemplifies the show’s ability to create identification with …
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Scapegoating : in defense of oneself.
… Milosevic's 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 …
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The strategic use of passion in rhetoric.
… Frances Bacon, George Campbell, I.A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, and Richard Weaver, have treated the controversy between the appeal to logic as opposed to the appeal to the passions.
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Hacks/Müller: Zur Selbstbestimmung der DDR-Dramatik in Bezug auf die literarische Tradition und sozialistische Gegenwart
… to theoretical concepts developed by Kenneth Burke (particularly his New Rhetoric approach presented in The philosophy of literary form), Raymond Williams (including his cultural materialism), as well as Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (Critical Theory). Furthermore, the dissertation …
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Lashing Back At the Wind
… because of the human tendency to employ what Kenneth Burke calls the "scapegoat mechanism” to blame their frustrations on bodily, assailable forms. By violently acting against these scapegoats, the characters in these stories not only feel a sense of victory against the uncontrollable sources …
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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
… his first term in office. To do so, I utilize Kenneth Burke‟s cluster and pentad tools to analyze Bush‟s statements on embryonic stem cell research, 9/11 and the ensuing War on Terror, and same-sex marriage, three issues that the elite press explicitly identified as being “moral values” during …
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God Talk: Shifting Religious Rhetoric in Post-Katrina New Orleans
In 1960, Kenneth Burke wrote The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology. In his book Burke comments on the rhetoric of religion and its uses. Using Burke’s analysis of religious rhetoric, this study attempts to show that Burke’s concepts of religion as a rhetorical device are applicable in a …
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Kenneth Burke's relation to modern thought and literature
<p>This dissertation on Kenneth Burke locates him in selected contexts of modern thought and New Criticism designed to reveal his distinctive contribution as a theorist of language and literature.</p> <p>Most of the substantial studies of Burke that we have, like William Rueckert’s excellent book, …
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The Composition of Postsecondary Institutions: An Ecological Approach to Pedagogy
… path, working through the familiar figure of Kenneth Burke to argue for a conception of ecology as rhetorical style. Finally, I turn my attention more explicitly onto the institutional scene of composition pedagogy in the form of an analysis of labor, which relies in part on a case study of a …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… and Jacques Derrida) and other traditions (e.g. Kenneth Burke, R.P. Blackmur, and Lionel Trilling) to challenge new instrumentalizing scholarly methodologies that aim to overcome the ironies of critical vision. I argue that James’s man of imagination not only presents a critical agency that …
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The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
… for real life practice. Literature provides what Kenneth Burke calls “an equipment for living.” On the one hand, the essence of Don Quixote’s rhetoric romantically transcends tragic situations inspiring heroic action to provide catharsis and experiences for learning. Readers can use his failures …
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Haole Like Me: Identity Construction and Politics in Hawaii
… and really, colonial. Paraphrasing rhetorician Kenneth Burke, this thesis analyzes how this word “works in the world,” and from there, explores how identity, culture, and belonging are constructed through language. The essential questions become: are culture and identity constructed and …
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The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries
… Following dramatistic concepts elaborated by Kenneth Burke, this rhetorical analysis finds three emergent patterns of communication--mythic, historic, and symbolic--in the discourses of making-of-documentaries (MODs) that illuminate collaborative creativity. As mythic patterns, MODs utilize …
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