Browsing by Author "Mercieca, Jennifer"
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Afterword: Trump as Anarchist and Sun King
Mercieca, Jennifer (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 ... -
Curating Memory: 9/11 Commemoration and Foucault's Archive
Rowe, Sara 1988- (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 ... -
Dangerous Demagogues and Weaponized Communication
Mercieca, Jennifer (Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2019-06-11)This essay argues that we can usefully separate “heroic demagogues” from “dangerous demagogues” by whether or not the demagogue allows themselves to be held accountable for their words and actions. “Dangerous demagoguery” ... -
A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire
Hartnett, Stephen; Mercieca, Jennifer (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 ... -
Embodied Storying, A Methodology for Chican@ Rhetorics: (Re)making Stories, (Un)mapping the Lines, And Re-membering Bodies
Cobos, Casie (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 ... -
"Fully Aware of the Power of Words": Morality, Politics, and Law in the Rwandan "Media Trial"
Serber, Bradley (2012-10-19)Incitement to genocide is a fairly recent and elusive concept in international law. First used at Nuremberg, the concept did not reappear for more than fifty years, when the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ... -
Ignoring the President: Barack Obama and the Postrhetorical Presidency
Mercieca, Jennifer (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 ... -
A moment in the pragmatic political style: the rhetoric of Louis D. Brandeis
Stob, Paul Henry (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)This thesis examines the rhetoric of Louis D. Brandeis in light of pragmatism-specifically, the philosophical pragmatism of William James and John Dewey. While a number of scholars claim that pragmatism has nothing to offer ... -
Nerd/Geek Masculinity: Technocracy, Rationality, and Gender in Nerd Culture's Countermasculine Hegemony
Lockhart, Eleanor Amaranth (2015-08-06)Nerd and geek culture have become subjects of increasing public concern in recent years, with growing visibility and power for technical professions and increasing relevance of video games, science fiction, and fantasy in ... -
Rhetoric of Heroic Loyalty: Portrayals of Scottish Jacobites as Rebels, Reprobates and Romantics
Creel, Walter Brady (2016-11-28)The Scottish Jacobite tradition spans a tumultuous arc of history in which imagery of Highland dress — tartan and kilts — was used to portray Highland Scots as enemies of the British state and as heroes of the British ... -
A Rhetoric of Moral Imagination: The Persuasions of Russell Kirk
Jones, Jonathan L. (2010-07-14)This rhetorical analysis of a contemporary and historical social movement, American conservatism, through a prominent intellectual figure, Russell Kirk, begins with a description of the author's work. Ideologies, arguments, ... -
Slouching Towards Alexandria: A Critical Analysis of the Scholarly Communication System
Bedenbaugh, Robin Adrienne (2018-05-01)TThis dissertation provides an historical analysis of libraries and discusses the broader system of scholarly communication and publishing using mixed methods from critical media studies, library studies, organizational ... -
Unbinding traditions: rhetoric, hermeneutics, and the Akedah
Butcher, Joshua Thomas (2009-05-15)This thesis explores and explicates the relationship between rhetoric and hermeneutics in two separate contexts: Jewish and Christian hermeneutic traditions, and secular philosophical hermeneutics. The impetus for this ...