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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"eloquence"”.
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Eloquence and Music: the Querelle des Bouffons in Rhetorical Context
… was conceived as abiding by the principles of eloquence, using previous rhetorical quarrels (including the Ancients and Moderns, and Atticism versus Asianism), as well as the fundamental tenets of both eloquence and music, to frame a wide-ranging debate that ultimately rethinks the two arts' …
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Wisdom, Eloquence, and Academic Rigor in ACCS Schools: A Mixed Methods Study
This study explored the relationship between the Christian liberal arts and sciences curriculum and academic rigor among classical Christian schools. It used convergent data-transformation methods to analyze publicly available curriculum descriptions in relationship to publicly available academic …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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"Love is Eloquence": Richard Crashaw and the Development of a Discourse of Divine Love
My thesis takes as its subject the poetry of Richard Crashaw. Crashaw aims to represent a mutual relationship of love between God and humanity, which is modelled on the discourses of earthly, erotic love. However, such a relationship, and its expression is highly problematic. Love, and this kind of …
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Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
… Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Obama combined the eloquence of clarity and coherence in speech, moral dignity in conduct of character and warmth of personality to advance their visions of civic unity during times of crisis.
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The Need, Feasibility, and Means of Establishing a Speech Center
… "the speech of too few people achieves eloquence, and that of the vast majority does not even reach a tolerable level of articulate behavior" (5). Articulate behavior has not always been a rare characteristic; from antiquity through the mid-twentieth century, the study of rhetoric was …
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
… of Cicero’s conviction that wisdom and eloquence ought to be united. His approach to Cicero’s rhetorical theory as found in De inventione, De oratore, and Orator shares many similarities with that of Late Antique rhetors (especially Marius Victorinus) in whose works the orator functions …
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The Interaction of Sound and Meaning in Qur’ānic Words: A Tonal Approach
… (iʻjāz) is the aesthetic excellence of its eloquence (balāḡah) and articulacy (fasāḥah). And intriguingly, in parallel to the intricate relationship of sound and meaning, the attempts of Muslim rhetoricians to identify the source and enchantment of Qur’ānic eloquence have been developed …
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The Race to Presidency: Toward Race and Citizenship in "A More Perfect Union"
… Union” addresses race relations with ease and eloquence, in part because it challenges the idea that America is perfect. Obama invites citizens to think of the Dream as a possibility of perfection, highlighting racial discrimination as evidence that the Dream needs perfection. This thesis …
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Renaissance Thomism at the University of Padua, 1465-1583
… recognized and embraced the progress in Latin eloquence, Greek learning, and historical and textual scholarship over the past century or so. Their historical awareness even led to an acknowledgment that the circumstances of the "age of Thomas Aquinas" hindered medieval thinkers in certain ways, …
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Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden
… assumptions about historical progress, cultural eloquence, and her own personal projections.</p>
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Lyly's proverb lore.
… upon proverbs to lend authority, wit, and eloquence to his art. This sententious element is an integral part of Lyly's euphuistic style. He quotes proverbs, adapts them, alludes to them, reverses their meaning, and presents them in a remarkable variety of ways. It may be of significance …
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Flattery as a Concern in Three Selected Works of Geoggrey Chaucer
… Charles Muscatine says that "through tragedy, eloquence, heroics, science, court flattery, courtly love, domesticity, dreams, scholarship, authority, antifeminism, patient humility and rural hullabaloo, there is scarcely a Chaucerian topic that is excluded from its purview and its criticism." …
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Every Spot a Grave: The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
… However, by beginning the story of Lincoln's eloquence in the White House, scholars have neglected his painfully revealing personal and literary evolution. Despite the thousands of books written about the sixteenth president, there has never been a full-length study devoted to his poetry. His …
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An Analysis of Bernanos' Style in La Joie
… to the vocabulary:</p> <p>"His fantastic eloquence, his</p> <p>successive gales of wild images,</p> <p>his dramatic enormities and frenzied caricatures, are intended,</p> <p>not so much to express anything as</p> <p>o rip usual words off the truth,</p> <p>to blow away the accepted and …
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Natural Arabic language text understanding
… Language Processing (NLP) because of its rich eloquence and free word order, but at the same time it is a good platform to capture understanding because of its rich computational, morphological and grammar rules. Among different representation techniques, Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) theory …
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Listening to the Lomax archive: the sonic rhetorics of American vernacular music in the 1930s
… roles in myth making, racial formation, cultural eloquence, progressive thought, and historiography. While recent scholarship has identified the sonic elements of rhetoric’s classical roots, I argue that vernacular, folk, or “roots” music can be a key element—a sonic rhetoric—for interpreting the …
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Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… humanitatis in Paris combined their humanist eloquence with studies at the Faculty of Theology. I therefore propose that we must distinguish between the ways in which the expansion of humanist educational practices effected theology as a discipline, on the one hand, and Lefèvre’s specific …
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Exploring the Role of the Self in the Islamic-Western Human Rights Discourse: A Comparative Examination of Foundational Texts of Key Scholars from the Shī‘ī-Muslim and Western Philosophical Tradition - ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib, Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, Søren Kierkegaard and Immanuel Kant
… tradition. These are Nahj al-Balāgha (Peak of Eloquence), which contains the sermons, letters and sayings of the first Shī‘ī Imām and cousin and son-in-law of Prophet Muḥammad, ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib; Risālat al-Ḥuqūq (Treatise of Rights) by Zayn al-‘Ābidīn, the fourth Shī‘ī Imām and great grandson …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with ancestors and spirits, are relatively common. Sentient visual languages are …
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