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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"material rhetoric"”.
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Shopping for Substance: Style and the Material Rhetoric of Conscious Consumerism
… and consumer goods makes it suitable for rhetorical scholarship to develop a stronger participatory role in the research. I use theories of style, material, and visual rhetoric to examine conscious consumerism today. The texts I examine were also marketing and aesthetic phenomenon. Chapter …
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Crafting citizens: material rhetoric, cultural intermediaries, and the Amazwi Abesifazane South African national quilt project
… current critical conversations on cross-cultural rhetoric, its circulation and real or imagined connections to economic and political development. In this introductory chapter I establish the basis and significance for studying the Amazi project from a rhetoric and composition disciplinary …
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Calling All Cast Members: Elevating Material Objects and Ambient Environments to Non-Human Rhetorical Actors in Arden of Faversham
Material rhetoric and ambient rhetoric frameworks offer a unique lens to view the materiality in early modern drama. Using these principles, as well as Actor-Network Theory and Affect Theory, objects and environments can be elevated to non-human actors in a play’s rhetorical situation. Arden of …
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Rhetorical gestures in British elocutionism
This project uncovers the rhetoric of gesture in British elocutionist handbooks on delivery (about 1650 to 1800). In the work of Bulwer, Sheridan, Walker, Priestley, Austin and others, the gesture exceeds its caricature in histories of rhetoric: an ancillary, if “detached” mechanism for the …