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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"rhetorical scholarship"”.
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We've Only Just Begun: A Black Feminist Analysis of Eleanor Smeal's National Press Club Address
… women have traditionally been excluded from rhetorical scholarship, both as a subject of study and as a methodological approach. Despite the little attention black feminist thought has received, black women have long been articulating the unique intersection of oppressions they face and have …
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Debtor's Empowerment: Muhammad Yunus and the Rhetoric of Microfinance
… a Foucauldian critical framework informed by the rhetorical scholarship of Ronald W. Greene and Joshua Hanan, the argument proceeds by first paying careful attention to Yunus' work as constitutive of a new grid of intelligibility through which to view the poor and then demonstrating the …
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Bits at the Backline: Comedy and Service-Learning in the Age of Pandemic
… project was a desire to bring composition and rhetorical scholarship outside of the university and into the rich artistic communities that exist within Omaha. It is at the crossing point between the institutional situation and the rhetorical situation that we engaged in this project, seeking to …
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Muckraking Exposes and the Shaping of Progressive Era Political Culture
This study is an attempt to redress a lacuna in rhetorical scholarship and the unjustified reign of a simplistic analysis in historical scholarship by examining the character of progressive era political culture through a close analysis of muckraking texts. While rhetoricians have not examined the …
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Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective
… indicate a decline in the amount and variety of scholarship in this area of study. This project provides a meta-critical analysis of the history of southern rhetorical scholarship, focusing mainly on southern public address. By tracing ideology from the Agrarians, Richard Weaver, Dallas Dickey, …
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The Rhetorical Turn in United States Diplomacy Praxis: Public Diplomacy 2.0
… theory has not enjoyed an active voice in the scholarship of foreign relations, and more specifically, public diplomacy. This project argues that a postmodern turn in public diplomacy was formalized in the State Department's 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) and that two …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of rhetoric to jazz improvisation analysis. Taken from both Western and …
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Yogic Agency: The Yoga in Composition and Rhetoric
… of composition and rhetoric. By resignifying rhetorical scholarship as yogic, I shape a new and amalgamated conception of agency deploying yogic and Western perspectives. I call this yogic agency. By constructing, defining, and unraveling the function of yogic agency in the writing classroom, …
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RHETORICAL LIFELINES: QUEER AND FEMINIST SURVIVAL IN RIYOKO IKEDA’S THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
This dissertation explores the rhetorical lifelines of queer and feminist survival in the adapted animation of Riyoko Ikeda's The Rose of Versailles. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines the rhetorics of place/space and embodiment in the animation. Drawing from feminist and …
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In the company of citizens: the rhetoric of Singapore Inc.
… and reinforce these norms. I conclude that rhetorical scholarship can benefit by drawing on concepts from organizational communication and that Singapore presents a unique case of neoliberalism that blends the liberal focus on individual endeavor with republican notions of sacrifice for a …
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Rhetorical Perspectives of American Civil-Military Relations
… the military and wider society. Although some rhetorical scholarship has examined military affairs, the field as a whole has paid limited attention to this perceived civil-military gap. Rhetorical analysis offers a novel means to examine the discourse surrounding the American civil-military …
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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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The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871
… study is an attempt to (1) minimize the lack of rhetorical scholarship in Mormon studies, and (2) add to the historical study of rhetoric in nineteenth-century America. Since the Mormon Church's establishment in 1830, sermons have been a vital part of the Church's development into a worldwide …