Browsing by Subject "Rhetoric"
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(SOCIETAS, 2018)Trump’s 2016 campaign was anarchy—it longed for a distant past outside of the current system. Trump argued repeatedly that the current American political system had to be destroyed because it had been corrupted by weak ...
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(Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 2007)In the summer of 1835 northern abolitionists mailed over 100,000 anti-slavery newspapers to slaveholders in the South, which led slaveholders to violently prevent the abolitionist sentiment from circulating in their local ...
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(2012-08-17)This study of commemoration of 9/11 on the 10th anniversary is performed at the intersection of public memory and rhetorical studies. Examining the role of the individual within public memory, this study furthers both ...
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(2012-07-16)Female characters and references to femininity throughout American war literature disrupt discursive and biological divisions of the masculine and feminine. In examining gender and war literature over the twentieth century, ...
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(Presidential Studies Quarterly, 2007)Because of the explosion of mass media, we have entered a new age of white noise; because of the disastrous extension of U.S. imperial ambitions, we have entered a new age of political deception; when these two historical ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation privileges Chican@ rhetorics in order to challenge a single History of Rhetoric, as well as to challenge Chican@s to formulate our rhetorical practices through our own epistemologies. Chapter One works ...
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(2013-07-22)The relationship between authors and readers has been heavily studied in western literatures since the shift between the spoken-subject lost its privileged position to the written author. The struggle for who determines ...
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(2014-03-31)This project is motivated by the presence of eugenics in our dominant approaches to meaning-making: what does it look like, and why should we care? To begin to answer these questions, this dissertation works from two ...
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(2019-07-09)Evidence and Epistemology in Early Modern English Drama focuses on ways of knowing in a period before the disciplinary paradigms that we use today crystallized. Operating in a period of epistemological flux, writers in ...
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(2013-04-01)The Southern Baptist Convention has experienced both tremendous growth and intense turmoil in its relatively short history. After experiencing increasing internal conflicts throughout the late twentieth-century, a decade-long ...
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(2014-05-23)Digital representations of the mythic West abound, from Rockstar Games’ popular open-world Western, Red Dead Redemption, to free iPad and iPhone apps (Oregon Settler, Trade Nations Frontier). These virtual re-enactments ...
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(2012-11-21)Posthumanist rhetoric is informed by developments in the sciences and the humanities which suggest that mind and body are not distinct from each other and, therefore, claims of humans’ superiority over other animals based ...
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(Texas A&M University Press, 2017)The rhetorical presidency model made good sense within the traditional media market of the twentieth century, but makes little sense within the new media market of the new millennium. The era of the rhetorical presidency ...
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Imagining the Words of Others: Public Memory and Ceremonial Repetition in American Public Discourse (2013-05-07)Rhetorical analyses of collective memory study how perceptions of a shared past are maintained through public texts. This analysis explores an alternative relationship between rhetoric and remembrance. Rather than study ...
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(2011-08-08)This dissertation engages previous research in political science and psychology by arguing for the importance of oral arguments from a communication perspective, examining justices' rhetorical discursive interaction in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Plato's authoritative depictions of the philosopher as the sole guide capable of leading readers to Truth develop slowly through his dialogues. Through analyses of the "Meno," the "Phaedo," and the "Timaeus," dialogues ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)This thesis shows the development and shifts in rhetorical form as strategies evolve to meet heresthetic demands. This thesis explores the rhetorical crisis that emerged between the Democratic Party and the Mississippi ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Constitutive rhetoric is the idea that spoken language is a powerful force in the world that creates audiences and social worlds while simultaneously making and remaking language users. I employ the notion of constitutive ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Rhetoric, as defined by Aristotle, is persuasion, "the art of finding the arguments." Aristotle described three appeals, methods of persuasion: logos (logic), pathos (emotion), and ethos (ethical persuasion through character). ...