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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Rhetorical studies"”.
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Mormon Rhetoric and the Theory of Organic Evolution
Most rhetorical studies of evolution/religion debates have addressed the media version of the debates that pits fundamentalist religion against science. Yet, most of the rhetorical studies in this area have not been nuanced enough to appreciate the complexity of the rhetoric resulting from this …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… worker productivity. Drawing on research from rhetorical studies, transnational feminism, and disability studies that highlight the way that discourses surrounding the body are used to limit access to citizenship and rhetorical agency, this research analyzes the material and discursive effects …
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Rhythm, rhyme, and rhetoric in "12 years a day Django".
… be a potent source of subversive and vernacular rhetorical action, which is enabled in part by the racialization of flow. These arguments are cultivated through a contextual and textual analysis of 12 Years a Day Django. In developing these claims, this thesis seeks to demonstrate the utility of …
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… to this analysis are the disciplines of: rhetorical studies, media studies, English studies, criminology, law, victimology studies, psychology, and violence philosophy- all collaborating interdisciplinarity in the interest of a feminist hermeneutic. These disciplines synthesize the key …
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The Rhetoric of Gallows Humor: The Settler Colonial Unconscious in Reservation Dogs
… examines how Native comedy operates as a rhetorical and psychoanalytic critique of settler colonialism. Focusing on the television series Reservation Dogs, I argue that gallows humor, which is defined as comedy engaging death, trauma, and suffering, functions as a distinctly Native …
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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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Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective
… analysis of the history of southern rhetorical scholarship, focusing mainly on southern public address. By tracing ideology from the Agrarians, Richard Weaver, Dallas Dickey, Waldo Braden, Stephen Smith, and Stuart Towns, clear attitudes and definitions of the South, southern identity …
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Animal-machine
… world has sparked debate in communication and rhetorical studies about how to best approach a range of non-human entities: animals, plants, objects, machines and more. In Animal-machine, I argue that these categories do not emerge as pre-formed and discrete objects but are co-constituted with …
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Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability
… exposure to material, social, institutional, and rhetorical forces that work to condition us as both agents and audiences. Rhetoric is not simply something we use; it is also something that we respond to, something to which we are continuously exposed, whether we like it or not. There is, in other …
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The Postmodern Turn in Higher Education: Incorporating Narrative Literacy into the Discipline of Communication
… in education, and how can communication and rhetorical studies provide one potential answer through communicative engagement with our postmodern moment?' This question, the focus of this project, rests on the need to recognize narrative multiplicity in the classroom, particularly in the …
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RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
This dissertation explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics of place/space and embodiment in the animation. Drawing from feminist and …
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. Scholarship on citizenship suggests that civic rituals and collective civic …
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The role of literature in teaching freshman composition
… paradigm for teaching writing and a revival of rhetorical studies have led many institutions to exclude the reading of imaginative literature from freshman composition courses.This dissertation argues, however, that to include literature in freshman composition is both desirable and possible. …
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An American rhetoric of globalism: peace through international economic cooperation in the World War II era
… a liminal moment, it also offers to the field of rhetorical studies an alternative account of popular, presidential, and institutional discourses in the World War II era. The study takes as its sites of analysis three rhetorical landmarks in the American history of globalization: Wendell Willkie's …
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Seeing the constitution as they see it: Presidential reconstitutions, executive power, and interbranch conflict
… during moments of national crisis. It offers rhetorical studies a deeper rhetorical understanding of these historical events, analysis of the growth of executive power, and investigation of interbranch conflict. This study examines the interbranch conflict between three presidents who each …
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