Browsing by Subject "rhetoric"
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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(2023-05-18)There exist myriad intimacies from friendship to allyship but kinship—biological kinship—is still a dominating criterion by which all other intimacies are measured, even in statements that express an association stronger ...
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The Witcher series, by Andrzej Sapkowski, has recently become an international phenomenon. On top of its international pop-cultural success, one of the most interesting aspects about the series is the political landscape ...
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In this paper, I analyze how drag queen Trixie Mattel utilizes fantasy themes to push the limits of drag performance based on overlapping performative principles of art, comedy, gender, and popular culture. I explore the ...
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(2013-07-19)This dissertation builds upon the relatively young fields of visual and environmental rhetoric and analyzes the rhetoric of natural history filmmaking, focusing on the ways in which the genre illustrates the complex ...
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(2012-10-19)By reading mournful poems rhetorically, I expand the concept of the elegy in order to reveal continuities between private and communal modes of mourning. My emphasis on readers of elegies challenges writer-centered definitions ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2019)
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(2012-10-19)Despite the recent growth of social media, rhetorical theory which addresses authorship in this realm has been slow to develop. Static terms such as "reader," "writer," and "author" are often used to refer to the roles ...
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(2014-09-17)Meta-rhetoric, or rhetoric that addresses rhetoric itself, is continuously metamorphosing and growing in acceptance. Discussions of this issue date back to ancient times, with Plato’s Phaedrus examining the morality of ...
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(American Library Association, 2016)Librarians have been coordinating with composition instructors to offer information literacy instruction in composition classrooms long enough that it can no longer be considered a new trend, but rather a standard feature ...
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(2018-04-04)Numerous studies, on both micro and macro levels, confirm that providing postsecondary education to prisoners works to reduce the rate of recidivism. Understanding that the phenomenon is works, however, does not answer the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2021)
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(Texas A&M University, 2022)
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(Texas A&M University, 2020)
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(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023-04)This study assessed student research papers using a rubric to determine the information literacy skills of students in introductory composition classes. Librarians taught a pilot composition course that infused information ...
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(2018-08-07)In this project, I track the development of Margaret Fuller’s rhetoric of transcendental nationalism within the context of the Roman revolution in 1848. My central purpose is to situate the legacy of Margaret Fuller in the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Wayne Booth and other rhetorical critics have developed methods for examining the rhetorical aspects of fiction. In this dissertation, I examine, specifically, the use of rhetorical violence in American fiction. It is my ...
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Literature Review: The relationship between medicine and social understands of embodiment has been complicated for women and those who fall outside of binary gender. It has become hard for authoritative figures in the ...
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(2009-05-15)This thesis provides a rhetorical analysis of prophetic texts, non-fiction premillennialist dispensational studies, the fictional series, Left Behind and interviews with series’ readers. This thesis argues that prophetic ...
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(2014-01-14)The language surrounding the decision to go to war in American political discourse is often very divisive and draws upon numerous rhetorical traditions. Early research on the question of what types of arguments favoring ...