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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"history of rhetoric"”.
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Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric
… Aeschylus contributes to the development of ancient Greek rhetoric through his use and display of πειθώ (often translated “persuasion”) throughout the <em>Oresteia</em>, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays and develops πειθώ as a theme, a goddess, a …
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A Genealogy Of Ecological Rhetoric: Heraclitus, Bacon, Darwin And Huxley
<p>This dissertation is a genealogical study of historical intersections between rhetoric and ecology. Studying the works of Heraclitus, Francis Bacon, T.H. Huxley and Darwin as "bridge figures" in the history of rhetoric, science and ecological thought, I examine how their rhetorical theories and …
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Cicero’s Incomplete Orator: The Transmission and Reception of the Mutilus Text
This dissertation traces the tradition of Orator, Cicero’s late work on oratorical style, through the Middle Ages. During that time and due to mechanical losses, the text circulated in a reduced or mutilus form consisting of only the middle half and tail-end of the treatise. An early chapter (1) …
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From nature to the ideal : a cross-disciplinary study of ancient Greek kairos, circa 3000-146 BCE
… study investigates the ancient Greek concept of kairos in the sociocultural history of the ancient Greeks from 3000-146 BCE. Within this historical context, the dissertation attempts to isolate the story of kairos as it moves from being a concept learned through the Greeks’ direct experiences …
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Oklahoma Women Preachers, Pioneers, and Pentecostals: An Analysis of the Elements of Collective and Individual Ethos Within the Selected Writings of Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church
… defines it. I seek to show that women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church who spent a significant amount of their careers in Oklahoma generated an ethos in their autobiographical texts and transcribed, edited interviews that constructed individualized as well as a social …
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Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science
… scientific ethos through demonstrations of the rhetor's judgment. By examining the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this …