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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Sophistic Rhetoric"”.
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A New Language for Heroes: Odysseus, Ajax, and Sophistic Language in Attic Tragedy
… particular emphasis on the presence of marked sophistic modes and values of speech. My thesis begins with an overview of the sophistic movement and a discussion of the philosophical and stylistic tenets of sophism. Based on these, I theorize that during fifth century Be a civic anxiety over the …
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St. Augustine and the Rhetoric of <em>De ordine</em>
… to scholarship on the question of Augustine and rhetoric by considering Augustine’s use and understanding of rhetoric in <em>De ordine</em>, one of his early philosophical dialogues composed during his transition from a life in rhetoric to a life in philosophy. The author studies the text through …
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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 …