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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Political myth"”.
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'A City of Brick': Visual Rhetoric in the Roman Principate
… the most complete visual representation of this myth in state art on the Ara Pacts Augustae, Altar of Augustan Peace, and how traditional rhetorical techniques are at work on the altar. Chapter Three focuses on the political myth as represented on coins from the Senatorial and Imperial mints, the …
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Patriots Underground, Online: a Rhetorical Study of the Militia Movement's Use of the American Revolution
… militia movement, particularly its use of the political myth of the American Revolution. A study of militia movement web pages reveals that militia rhetors reinterpret the myth of the American Revolution in two stages: first, the federal current government oppresses its citizens, an activity …
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Myth, Mayhem, and Pseudo-Democracy: The Role of Political Myths in Mobilizing Nationalist Populist Movements and Political Extremists
… body of research analyzes the enduring impact of political myth in nationalist populism and extremist movements. The rise of Western nationalist parties and acts of terror in the early 21st century gave life to this project. The manuscript advances two theories regarding political myths and their …
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Ouma : performing the myth of the self
… focuses largely on what happens when the myth structuring the identity of an individual changes. How does the individual go about re-narrating identity within the context of the new myth? And how might the creation of performance contribute tothe re-narrating? The first section, Myth of …
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Demystifying the database: the state's crafting of Cape Town's housing allocation tool and its technologies
… opacity of its functioning, or positioned as a political myth, a smokescreen that conceals the state's inability to deliver on its housing promises. However, a technopolitical lens challenges researchers to pay attention to the form, function and development of state tools; nuances that are too …
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RUFUS KING AND THE MISSOURI QUESTION: A STUDY IN POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY
… consequences? Or, was this merely a groundless political myth, whether the result of an honest misinterpretation or of a deliberate smear? If the Missouri question was not the result of a political conspiracy, what was its true origin? How did the name of Rufus King become so prominently …
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Deconstructing political myths in television advertisements of major South African political parties during elections campaign : a critical discourse analysis study
This study argues that political television advertisements possess underlying political myths. These political myths are narratives that use different discursive practices such as verbal and visual texts to construct political narratives that either legitimise and/or delegitimise a particular …