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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"Rhetorics"”.
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The rhetorics of Lucian's Dream
The autobiographical piece The Dream provides an interesting insight into the satirist Lucian’s early life and professional development. In the work, young Lucian has a dream in which he must decide between following a career of education (paideia) or of craftwork (technê). Each career appears to …
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Rhetorics of Risk in American Homeownership
Rhetorics of Risk in American Homeownership, taking the post-2007 mortgage crisis and its problematic rhetorics of blame as a motivating exigence, investigates historical and contemporary economic discourses relevant to homeownership, with close attention to rhetorical constructions of risk. …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
This thesis deals primarily with Renaissance tragedy and with Milton's Paradise Lost. It is structured around three main Sections each of which identifies a dominant theme in the drama/poetry of the period 1580-1670 and considers the way in which it is utilised in order to express or represent what …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
<p>This project joins other academic conversations regarding the dynamics of power, modernity, witchcraft, and magic within the contexts of Western hegemony. Occasioned by kairotic cultural events and the reinforcement of ideologies like those found in the Dobbs decision, QAnon conspiracy, and rise …
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The Public Pochx: Rhetorics of American-Born Latinxs
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
There is a repeating pattern in rhetoric in which women discursively re-shape their bodies into that of a nonhuman animal. This thesis utilizes a framework of ecofeminism and rhetorical empathy in order to understand this kind of shapeshifting. Three primary rhetors comprise the basis of this …
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Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Professional Female Athletes
<p>In my dissertation, “Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Female Athletes,” I interrogate how female athletes are represented in the media, trace the dominant cultural images and discourses associated with these representations, illustrate how female athletes use venues such as ESPN The Magazine as …
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On body dumps : the rhetorics of corporeal narcoterrorism
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Feminist Rhetorics: Theory and Practice of Strategic Silence
<p>Building upon the concepts discussed by Cheryl Glenn in her book <em>Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence, </em>I conduct a<em> </em>thorough exploration of how silence can be used rhetorically as a unique and powerful form of communication. Because traditional rhetorical theory is rooted in …
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
… text, Lives on the Boundary, juxtaposes rhetorics of mobility with critiques of such possibility. Through an analysis of work published in professional journals, I offer a reception history of Rose’s narrative, focusing specifically on how teachers have negotiated the tension between hope …
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Illustrations From the English Bible in Selected English Rhetorics
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Rhetorics of Everyday Resistance: The Belgrade 1996/97 Student Protest
<p>In this project, I explore and theorize how practices of resistance emerge and function within a nondemocratic political context. I identify the 1996/97 student protest as a pivotal event of nonviolent resistance in Serbia during the 1990s, focusing on the rhetorical tactics employed to subvert …
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Contrasting identities / competing rhetorics : Anglophones' challenge to Québec's national project
This thesis explores the ways that Quebec's anglophones were constituted as national and political subjects by Quebec's national project and the manners in which these constitutions inform anglophone politics today. First, the policy papers tabled by the Parti Québécois and the Liberal Party of …
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Rhetorics of transformations : a discursive analysis of interviews with teachers
This study examines haw teachers at two former white Model C schools construct educational changes rhetorically. The discourse analytic approach of Wetherell and Potter (1992) is employed to interpret interview texts in which teachers talk about desegregation, school governance and finance. …
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Organizational Identity-Power in Practice: The Rhetorics of University Identity
… leadership-sponsored brand as well as alternate rhetorics of organizational identity"shape the policies and practices of the university itself through the lenses of rhetoric and power. While the concept of organizational identity has been studied from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… centers the Greco-Roman tradition, specifically rhetorics and theories attached to privileged, white males, as the most important voices, while marginalizing rhetorics from other communities such as people of color, women, and queer folks. This dissertation makes interventions in the field of …
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Elephant and Wild Rice: Bringing Rhetorics of Materiality into Judicial Spaces
Rhetorics of new materialism have articulated an awareness that humans are not alone or centered in their interests and behaviors, and that possession of this worldview makes us accountable to nonhuman entities and things. Past scholarship on new materialism has focused on the necessity and …
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RECLAMATION AND SURVIVANCE: DINÉ RHETORICS AND THE PRACTICE OF RHETORICAL SOVEREIGNTY
… poetry, reclaim and revive Diné literacies and rhetorics. My analyses are informed by the historical and cultural contexts that shaped Diné philosophy, particularly, the philosophy that informs and is shaped by the practice of Diné literacies and rhetorics. I draw from mythical, historical, and …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
"This dissertation examines the interconnections between antebellum citizenship, cultural education, and rhetorical invention through the historical lens of ""the frontier."" The antebellum frontier is uniquely suited for rhetorical criticism because it was a process of both deeply symbolic …
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The divergent archive and androcentric counterpublics: Public rhetorics, memory, and archives
As a field, Writing Studies has long been concerned with the rhetorical representation of both dominant and marginalized groups. However, rhetorical theory on publics and counterpublics tends not to articulate how groups persuade others of their status as mainstream or marginal. Scholars of …
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