Browsing by Subject "Major english"
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Academic register : the voice of authority
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)College students' acquisition of "academic discourse" has been the focus of a long-standing debate in composition studies. Despite much critical attention, academic discourse is still an enigma. Yet many theorists contend ... -
Dialectic and Antony and Cleopatra
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)This dissertation attempts to show that Shakespeare shapes Antony and Cleopatra in order to focus on the merits of a dialectical balance between alternate points of view. Though much has been written on the moral ambiguity, ... -
An edition of the Fugitive Poetry by Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland : Manuscript fMS Eng 645
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland (1601-1666), is viewed as a minor seventeenth-century English poet and dramatist. His corpus of works, predominantly a collection of verses, and also seven extant dramas, is mostly ... -
Liminal definition in medieval epistemology and Chaucer
(Texas A&M University, 1996)In Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer's revision of Boccaccio's II Filostrato, the poet investigates the different forms that reading and writing can assume. The poem's emphasis on texts within the poem-the letters that pass ... -
The Merchant of Venice: A critical analysis in terms of George Granville's adaptation of 1701
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)A more precise evaluation of "The Merchant of Venice" may be gained through a critical comparison of the play with a much later adaption, that of George Granville in 1701, entitled "The Jew of Venice: A Comedy". A comparative ... -
Plato and textual authority : an examination of Plato's dominative influence in four genres of ethnography leading to a postplatonic, rhetorical model of textual authority
(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 ... -
The professionalization of a science : rhetoric and the evolution of expertise in ornithological discourse
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Though the writing of physicists and astronomers has been studied, there has not yet been any extensive journal-based analysis of biologists' discourse. In particular, American ornithology warrants research because its ... -
The rhetoric of ethos in business and technical writing textbooks
(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). ... -
Veiling and unveiling Hawthorne's Fuller mystery
(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1994)Eight years after Margaret Fuller's death and just after hearing gossip about the "boor," the "hymen," that he called her "clownish husband," Nathaniel Hawthorne confronted directly for the first time the "riddle" of ...