Dissertations / Theses: 'American rhetoric'

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Rushford-Spence, Shawna L. "Women’s Rhetorical Interventions in the Economic Rhetoric of Neurasthenia." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1291684623.

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Kawaharada, Dennis. "The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9347.

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Lim, Elvin T. "Rhetoric and the American presidency : pandering and leadership in a rhetorical republic." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417604.

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Watson, Shevaun E. "Unsettled Cities: Rhetoric and Race in the Early Republic." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1083347555.

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Perez, Alyssa Cathryn. "“Make America Great Again”: Political Rhetoric of the American Alt-Right Movement." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21128.

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On November 8th, 2016, Republican nominee Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America. On November 9th, 2016, Twitter was flooded with messages hashtagged #TrumpsAmerica which narrated various ways that marginalized groups were being attacked, verbally or physically, by self-proclaimed Trump supporters whose inappropriate actions had been legitimized by Trump’s election into office. Many Americans were in shock upon receiving the news of the new President Elect. Jon Ronson, journalist and author of The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the Alt-Right, stated in the closing remarks of his book that “the alt-right’s small gains in popularity will not be enough to win Trump the election […] but if some disaster unfolds […] and Trump gets elected […] that is terrifying” (2016: 793). Ronson’s book was published before the election had concluded, and his closing remarks haunt many Americans who are now just that—terrified. Still others ponder at how the country transitioned from the progressive era of the Obama administration to the election of a man who helped inspire the 2016 word of the year, “post-truth”. What many believed was a joke in the Republican primaries has suddenly evolved into a Presidency that is all too real. Many Americans believed Trump appeared out of nowhere, ran his mouth carelessly during his campaign, and was elected by the racist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, and homophobic population of America, more specifically known as the Alternative Right Movement. Matthew Lyons, author of “Ctrl, Alt, Delete: The Origins and Ideology of the Alternative Right”, defines the Alt-Right movement as “a loosely organized far-right movement that shares a contempt for both liberal multiculturalism and mainstream conservatism [which] combines White nationalism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and authoritarianism in various forms and in political styles ranging from intellectual argument to violent invective” (2017: 2). He continues to note the Alt-Right maintains, “a belief that some people are inherently superior to others; a strong internet presence and embrace of specific elements of online culture; and a self-presentation as being new, hip, and irreverent” (Lyons 2017: 2). However, this alt-right rhetoric which Trump stands for has always been a counter-narrative throughout American political history, quietly lingering in the shadows until the moment it could finally reveal itself. My paper will be focusing specifically on this counter-narrative that has pervaded throughout American political history and how the alt-right has evolved and harnessed this rhetorical narrative to create an environment that has lent itself to the election of a man such as Donald Trump. By first establishing the necessity of using a rhetorical lens with which to evaluate the 2016 American Presidential election, I will then trace the rhetorical genealogy in order to show the gradual ascension of alt-right rhetoric through American political history, concluding with the election of Trump.

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Gifford, David Pharis. "Roasted: Coffee, Insult, Rhetoric." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1951.

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While insult has been a frequent topic for rhetorical study in the past, little if any work has gone toward the formation of a systematic theory of insult. Karina Korostelina has proposed a theory of intergroup identity insults, which appears promising from a socio-cultural perspective. However, her theory does not address the particularly rhetorical characteristics of insults, preferring instead to analyze them with reference to their socio-historic context. While her theory proves sound under scrutiny, it does little to shed light on pejorative rhetoric as rhetoric. In what follows, I would like to propose certain characteristics of pejorative rhetoric that may prove useful in developing a rhetorical understanding of insult. I will be using Korostelina’s theory as a starting place to ground my discussion of insult, but I will go beyond the socio-historic contexts to suggest a purely rhetorical aspect of insults that creates new meanings and associations independent of larger cultural contexts. While independent of cultural contexts, these new associations are still informed by cultural contexts. As such, I will be using coffee, a cultural artifact with a variety of social and culture meanings, as a lens from which to examine pejorative rhetoric. Ultimately, I propose that insult functions by drawing from the associations inherent in cultural artifacts in order to transform those associations into purely rhetorical associations, that is, associations that could not exist without the influence of pejorative rhetoric, thereby creating a rhetorical context independent of large cultural contexts.

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Papajcik, Jessica L. "The Rhetoric of American Beauty: A Value Analysis." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1164663536.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, School of Communication, 2006.
"December, 2006." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 06/27/2007) Advisor, Mary E. Triece; Committee members, Patricia S. Hill, N. J. Brown; Interim Director of the School, Carolyn M. Anderson; Interim Dean of the College, James M. Lynn; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Adams, Elliot C. "American Feminist Manifestos and the Rhetoric of Whiteness." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1151349899.

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Thomas, Erika Marie. "The Rhetoric of the Modern American Menstrual Taboo." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217008593.

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Cortez, José Manuel, and José Manuel Cortez. "Atopic Peripheries: Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Latin American Resistance." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625384.

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This dissertation is about the category of hybridity in the discourse of Latinamericanism. In particular, it undertakes a critical interrogation of mestizaje as the grounds for the thought of politics in Latinamericanist critical thought. It advances a set of analyses centered on my claim that mestizaje was never the felicitious grounding of politics it was once thought to be. And given that perhaps the most widely circulated and cited form of Latinamericanist thought today, decoloniality, is premised upon the terms and conditions of mestizaje, this is indeed a timely subject for critical reflection. The central argument of Atopic Peripheries is that Latin American rhetorical and cultural criticism has fundamentally misread the narrative of race across Latin America, and as such, has developed an understanding of the concept of politics that subverts itself. It is widely presupposed that the originary event of colonialism—the clash of Amerindian and European groups in the 15th century and the process of cultural and racial miscegenation that unfolded from this clash—obtains in an identity that is inherently resistant to what Walter Mignolo, for example, has identified as the matrix of modernity/coloniality. This process of cultural, racial, and conceptual mixture, or hybridization, is often identified by writers and critics as mestizaje, an exceptionally unique form of Latin American hybridity. The figure of the mestizo, and the process of mestizaje, is the figure of this mixture between incommensurate ethno-racial groups and the source material for a politics of counter-hegemony. This project attempts to develop a preliminary response to the thinking of politics at the limits of identity. In chapter 1, I suggest that the question of non-Western difference has come to feature prominently across the field of comparative rhetoric, where it is often presupposed that an irreducible difference separates Western from non-Western rhetorical and cultural production. It is from this presupposition that critics have established a politics of comparative inquiry, whereby restituting the pure consciousness of a non-Western subaltern subject is understood to subvert the hegemony of Western thought. I examine the recent turn toward Latin America to argue that this presupposition serves as a constitutive topos—that the object of Latin America is invented rhetorically in the very act of comparison—and that this presupposition obtains in an impasse that the field has yet to think through. I draw upon recent work in Latin American studies to argue for a rearticulated notion of subalternity as a methodological approach for dealing with this impasse. In chapter 2, I return more explicitly to the question of hybridity by arguing that the way critics think the site of the US-Mexico border as the grounds of an identity of resistance produces the very same problems concerning mestizaje that I briefly outlined above. In chapter 3, I continue my reading of mestizaje through Emma Perez’s The Decolonial Imaginary. I conclude with a reading of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s performance art as a posthegemonic thought of politics at the limits of the category of identity.

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Hawley, Cody Ryan. "The Uses of Community in Modern American Rhetoric." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7680.

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This study examines the functions of the term “community” in American social and political rhetoric. I contend that community serves as a god-term, or expression of value and order, which rhetors use to motivate actions, endorse values, include/exclude persons, and compensate for modern losses. Informed by the philosophy of Kenneth Burke, I explore the general features of “rhetorics of community,” including community’s ambiguity and status as an automatic good, the relationship between community and modernity, the myth of communal loss, and the uses of community as a site of political unity and contest. I analyze the writings of John Humphrey Noyes, Jane Addams, and the Southern Agrarians as paradigm cases of utopian, progressive, and traditionalist rhetorics respectively, and I discuss how community is constructed in order to navigate the tension between self and society, correct for the failures of modern individualism, and propose competing visions of the social order.

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Gourgey, Hannah Susan. "Symbloic matters : rhetoric, marginality and the pathos of identity /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004414.

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Hallen, Cynthia Leah. "Philology as rhetoric in Emily Dickinson's poems." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185586.

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Philology, or the love of words, is a source of power in Emily Dickinson's poems. Noah Webster's dictionary was a storehouse of philological knowledge and thus a major source of linguistic power for Dickinson. Her poems show that philology is an effective way to compose and interpret texts, and that paying attention to words is a source of rhetorical power for readers and writers today. The first six chapters of the dissertation feature aspects of Dickinson's philology from the perspective of nineteenth-century rhetoric: Definition, Music, Cohesion, Dictionary Use, and Etymology. Chapter One tells the story of Emily's "Lexicon" and "Noah's Ark." Chapter Two discusses definition as a rhetorical strategy and presents a definition of terms. Chapter Three explores music as rhetorical power in the themes, prosody, and sound patterns, syntax, and lexis of Dickinson's poems. The cohesion of Dickinson's lexical choices is the focus of Chapter Four. Chapter Five focuses more intently the role of the Lexicon in Dickinson's composing processes. The role of etymology in Webster's lexicography and in Dickinson's poetry is the subject of Chapter Six. Chapter Seven uses A. L. Becker's definitions of a new philology to discuss the function of philology in contemporary English studies.

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Bridges, D'Angelo A. "Revising Rhetorical Theory in "My Bondage and My Freedom": Narrativizing and Theorizing a Rhetoric of Blackness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/402.

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This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom in a liminal space between disciplinary lines of inquiry. In imagining his work within this space, I utilize Kenneth Burke’s notion of identification and cooperation as a means of understanding how Douglass enacts rhetoric and for what end. The rhetorical situation Douglass faces is highly fraught: other people’s lives are at stake, and the institution of slavery forces him to make legible the atrocities being done to African American bodies. My conceptualization of Douglass’s text as rhetorical theory in practice proffers a new way of understanding what shape and form rhetoric and narrative can take, especially for Douglass. Rhetorical theory in practice builds upon Barbara Christian’s understanding of what theory and theorization looks like within African American communities of practice. She argues that African American theory “is often in narrative forms, in the stories [they] create, in riddles and proverbs, in the play with language” (68). In My Bondage and My Freedom, I examine the ways in which Douglass locates rhetorical theory in the lived experiences of enslaved people. While doing this, he pays homage to four narrative forms: the captivity narrative, the criminal confession, the travel narrative, and the picaresque novel. He borrows from these forms to display his literary dexterity but also to enact a sort of rhetorical theory. His descriptions, sequence of events, and the way in which he orchestrates his text enact a rhetorical framework for advocating for the humanity of enslaved African Americans. Subsequently, he develops a rhetorical theory in practice that emerges out of his lived experiences.

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Herrmann, Andrew F., and Art Herbig. "Xander Harris and the Interrogation of American Masculine Rhetoric." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/800.

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Sano-Franchini, Jennifer. "The Rhetorical Making of the Asian/Asian American Face: Reading and Writing Asian Eyelids." Diss., ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/24204.

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In The Rhetorical Making of the Asian/Asian American Face: Reading and Writing Asian Eyelids, I examine representations of East Asian blepharoplasty in online video in order to gain a sense of how cultural values change over time. Drawing on scholarship in and around rhetorical theory, cultural rhetorics, Asian American rhetoric, cultural studies, Asian American studies, and postcolonial theory alongside qualitative data analysis of approximately fifty videos and the numerous viewer comments that accompany them, this study is a rhetorical analysis of the discourse on East Asian blepharoplasty in online video. These videos--ranging from mass media excerpts and news reports, to journals of healing and recovery, to short lectures on surgeon techniques, to audience commentary--offer insight into how social time is negotiated in the cross-cultural public sphere of YouTube. I do my analysis in two steps, first looking at how rhetors rationalize the decision to get blepharoplasty, and second, examining the temporal logics that ground these rationalizations. As result, I've identified five tropes through which people rationalize double eyelid surgery: racialization, emotionologization, pragmatization, the split between nature and technology, and agency. Moreover, I've identified at least five temporal logics that ground these tropes: progress, hybridization, timelessness, efficiency, and desire. Using these two sets of findings I build a framework for the analysis, production and organization of multimodal representations of bodies.

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Dadey, Bruce. "Rhetorics Rising: The Recovery of Rhetorical Traditions in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2789.

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This study suggests, through a rhetorical analysis of the role of orators and oration in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, that literature can be a valuable resource for the study of comparative and contrastive rhetoric; conversely, it also demonstrates that a knowledge of culturally-specific rhetorical and narrative practices is important for understanding ethnic-American novels and their social significance. Written during periods of intense racial upheaval in the United States, Invisible Man and House Made of Dawn are, to use a term coined by George Kennedy, metarhetorics: works that explore, from cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives, the ends and means of rhetoric and the ways in which rhetoric is linked to the formation of individual, ethnic, and national identities. This exploration is undertaken through the diegetic rhetoric of the novels, the depiction of rhetorical practice within their fictional worlds. Ellison's young orator, who vacillates between accommodationist, communist, and African American vernacular rhetorics, and Momaday's alienated protagonist, who is healed through the postcolonial rhetoric of a Peyotist street preacher and the ritual rhetoric of a displaced Navajo chanter, both illustrate how the recovery of traditional rhetorical practices is an integral part of cultural empowerment. The interaction of culturally-specific systems of rhetoric is also embodied in the extradiegetic rhetoric of the novels, the means by which the novels themselves influence their readers. Central to the novels' own rhetorical effectiveness is their authors' strategic appropriation of modernist techniques, which allowed the works to negotiate multiple literary traditions or social contexts, to penetrate and transform the American canon, and to accommodate and affect readers from a broad range of cultural backgrounds.

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Kerr, Lisa Drnec. "Saving place : The rhetoric of landscape in American poetry." Thesis, Bangor University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528315.

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Walker, Aretha A. "A study of the rhetoric of American advertising discourse." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2007. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1366.

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This study, exploring the nature of American advertising discourse, is guided by two overriding questions. First, "What is the nature of rhetoric in American advertising discourse?" and "How is the rhetoric of American advertising different from literature?" To answer these questions, the study examines the extended post-modern meaning of discourse and advertising, exploring both terms from the perspectives of humanists, sociologists, advertisers and communication experts. The study further discusses the nature of popular culture, of which advertising is a subgroup, and then explores the view of its critics who see it as dystopic—creating the opposite of a Utopia. These critics primarily fall into three camps: those who stridently denounce it without applying any sort of analysis or explanation of why it is bad, the best example being Hilton Kramer. Another in this camp, Dwight McDonald, tries to analyze popular culture albeit from a biased perspective, as his terminology and language quickly demonstrate. Others who more successfully explore the negative aspects of popular culture are the famous culture 1 critics, Allan Bloom and Christopher Lasch, who advocate keeping popular literature out of the classroom because it takes away precious time from the classics. Proponents of popular culture are less concerned, however, with whether or not the items being studied are "good" or bad" but rather whether or not they are worth being studied. They give an overwhelming answer, "Yes, they should be." These scholars, often politically motivated, use the theory of cultural materialism through which to examine cultural artifacts. Moreover, the study examines rhetorical devices of advertising discourse. Using glossy magazine advertisements, four tropes that are frequently used in advertisements are explored—imagery, rhythm, symbolism, and hyperbole, demonstrating how the visual images of women, as well as images that project power and wealth, are utilized in the discourse of American advertising, both positively and negatively. Finally, the study brings poetry and advertising together for comparative purposes by examining elements of syntax and graphics, and the ideology of love as seen in the two. The overall significance of this study is that it sheds light on the relationship between the discourses of two genres of cultural production that many people frequently assume not to be related.

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De, Vinne Christine. "Confessional narrative : the rhetoric of guilt in American autobiography /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487935958845043.

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Smith, Cynthia Lorraine Duquette. "Constructing the American home : the rhetoric of domestic architecture /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Johnson, Paul E. "Imagining American democracy| The rhetoric of new conservative populism." Thesis, The University of Iowa, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3608731.

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This dissertation studies historical and contemporary conservative rhetoric to argue that the political right's variant of American populism defines the rhetorical figure of "the people" as ontologically opposed to the state. This state-phobic rhetoric poses a threat to democratic deliberation, I argue, because it presumptively cancels the very appeals to shared space that tend to make democracy thrive. By turns examining the new right, the 2008 financial crisis, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the rise of the Tea Party, this dissertation suggests American democracy is trapped in a populist feedback loop that creates tragic modes of melancholic democratic politics. This democratic melancholia contributes directly to contemporary political trends of hyper-partisanship.

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Johnson, Paul E. "Imagining American democracy: the rhetoric of new conservative populism." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4996.

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This dissertation studies historical and contemporary conservative rhetoric to argue that the political right's variant of American populism defines the rhetorical figure of "the people" as ontologically opposed to the state. This state-phobic rhetoric poses a threat to democratic deliberation, I argue, because it presumptively cancels the very appeals to shared space that tend to make democracy thrive. By turns examining the new right, the 2008 financial crisis, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the rise of the Tea Party, this dissertation suggests American democracy is trapped in a populist feedback loop that creates tragic modes of melancholic democratic politics. This democratic melancholia contributes directly to contemporary political trends of hyper-partisanship.

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Webster, Travis Allan. "Pray the Gay Away: Rhetorical Dilemmas of the American Ex-Gay Movement." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1217868518.

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Aragon, Alba F. "The Rhetoric of Fashion in Latin America." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10632.

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This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. It shows how fashion has helped to advance specific visions of cultural identity, historical change, and literary production and consumption. Chapter 1 surveys current understandings of dress, fashion, and related concepts, highlighting this dissertation's questioning of fashion as a historically construed, rhetorically powerful discourse associated with Western modernity. It reflects on the importance of sartorial metaphors in literary theory and proposes that fashion is key to understanding the specificity of Latin American modernity. Chapter 2 surveys current scholarship on fashion in Latin America, reconsidering fashion's role in works by Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Andrés Bello, Domingo Sarmiento, José Martí and other seminal nineteenth-century writers. Chapter 3 offers the first study of the women's fashion magazine Elegancias (1911-1914), produced in Paris for Latin American consumption with Rubén Darío as literary editor. It investigates Darío's involvement and analyzes four collaborations presently unpublished in book form, particularly Darío's profile of the Argentine writer Delfina Bunge (whom he called "mademoiselle Verlaine"). It also analyzes Elegancia's inscription of Latin American modernismo within femininity and commodity culture. Chapter 4 shifts to Mexico, following the motif of the empty indigenous dress in works by painter Frida Kahlo and writer Rosario Castellanos spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. Mexico's indigenous textile traditions offer a space against/outside fashion from which to subvert normative femininity, imagine ethnic filiations, and critique post-revolutionary Mexico's forging of a mestizo national identity that incorporates indigenous people as mere icons. Chapter 4 analyzes Alejo Carpentier's major novels and his fashion chronicles in Venezuela's El Nacional from the 1950s. It analyzes the representation of everyday dress as costume within the world as theatre metaphor and Carpentier's Benjaminian sensibility in granting fashion allegorical meanings in relation to historical dialectics and transculturation. Throughout, the analysis observes how fashion exacerbates anxieties about Latin American divergence from metropolitan cultural models while its repertoire of images and discourses is used to fruitfully negotiate gender, race, and class as images of the body politic crystalize into images of the dressed body.
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Cutrufello, Gabriel. "Demonstrating Scientific Taste: Aesthetic Judgment, Scientific Ethos, and Nineteenth-Century American Science." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/167729.

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This dissertation explores how aesthetic claims in scientific arguments help construct scientific ethos through demonstrations of the rhetor's judgment. By examining the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs and Henry Rowland, two prominent nineteenth-century American scientists, through the lens of their formal rhetorical training as students in American universities, this dissertation investigates how aesthetic judgment is enacted in scientific writing and explores the rhetorical history of the terms "simplicity," "brevity," "imagination," and "taste" and their use in scientific arguments. The aesthetic judgment that both scientists demonstrate in their written work reinforced an understanding of scientific ethos. By placing nineteenth-century scientific writing in contact with the rhetorical theories of the time, this dissertation explores the history of aesthetic judgment in rhetoric and its influence on conceptualizations of the faculty of taste. The dissertation illuminates the connections between rhetorical training and the ability to perform appropriate judgment when creating a reliable scientific ethos in writing. Constructing a scientific ethos in writing became increasingly important and complicated during the time of great institutional change in scientific research, which occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century in America. Scientists constructed scientific ethos through demonstrations of aesthetic judgment in order to respond to the exigencies of both institutional pressures and disciplinary expectations.
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Crouch, Rachael M. "Rhetoric and Redress: Edward Hopper's Adaptation of the American Sublime." Ohio : Ohio University, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1186602058.

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Slavickova, Tess. "The rhetoric of American Memorial Day : a discourse historical approach." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.578271.

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This thesis works with the discourse historical approach (DHA) as the primary framework for the diachronic analysis of a corpus of commemorative speeches by United States presidents at the annual Memorial Day event. The study integrates micro-text and narrative analysis with study of parallel co-texts (especially the Gettysburg address), and seeks to align these with the context provided by social, cultural and historical rituals. I have sought to demonstrate the means by which speakers seek to use Memorial Day in their politolinguistic repertoire to secure a self-serving, legitimizing 'common ground' that elevates the normative value of war in preference to alternative peace-oriented discourses. In addition to analysis of legitimizing strategies, I focus on aesthetic or poetic rhetorical devices typical in the Memorial Day text," and demonstrate their important function in reinforcing and maintaining collective attitudes to memory and history. American Memorial Day thus serves as a case study for the exploration of discourses that perpetuate and legitimize war as activity that is necessary and integral to historical 'progress'.

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Whitley, Daniel Edward. "Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83575.

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This study analyzes the reporting and editorializing in several major American newspapers during the height of the Citizen Genêt Affair in July and August, 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language used to communicate them, is used to understand the dynamics of the information landscape of 1793. Specific attention is paid to the effects of time and space, personal and political bias, and incendiary historical rhetoric on reporting of and reactions to Genêt's actions. In doing so, this study highlights possible flaws or blind spots in both moral panic theory and historiography, and brings new understanding to the media environment in which America's political traditions gestated. Brief connections are drawn between this historical information landscape and series of events and contemporary concerns with regards to social media and incendiary political rhetoric.
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Jensen, Steven Morten. "Contextualizing American literature : narrative progression and the rhetoric of reference /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487780393265541.

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Winkelman, Diana Michelle Medhurst Martin J. "The rhetoric of Henry Highland Garnet." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5095.

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Largey, Zachary L. "The Rhetoric of Persecution: Mormon Crisis Rhetoric from 1838-1871." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1249.pdf.

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Taylor, Toniesha Latrice. "A Tradition Her Own: Womanist Rhetoric and the Womanist Sermon." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1231801444.

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Ford, Terrance A. "The persuasive appeal of selected American preachers to ethnically diverse congregations." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1182.

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Forsa, Catherine Q. "Science as Aesthetic Device in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1460481373.

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Williams, Wade Daniel. "The politics of rhetoric in the New American Republic, 1783-1828." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1300988962.

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Herman, Jennifer Linda. "Effecting Science in Affective Places: The Rhetoric of Science in American Science and Technology Centers." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1396961008.

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White, Kristin Kate. "Training a Nation: The General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ Rhetorical Education and American Citizenship, 1890-1930." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1279827080.

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Wolfe, Marion A. "Constructing Modern Missionary Feminism: American Protestant Women’s Foreign Missionary Societies and the Rhetorical Positioning of Christian Women, 1901-1938." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1525440511790395.

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Fitzmaurice, Andrew. "Classical rhetoric and the literature of discovery 1570-1630." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307941.

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Graff, Zivin Erin. "The wandering signifier : rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American imaginary /." Durham, N.C : Duke University Press, 2008. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9780822343325.

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Maier, Kevin. "Environmental rhetoric of American hunting and fishing narratives : a revisionist history /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1232423281&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Mitchell, William. "Selling Lend-Lease: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Rhetoric of American Intervention." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/978.

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Rahtz, Dominic. "The rhetoric of literalism : readings in American minimal art 1959-1966." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2001. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/931/.

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Mattina, Anne F. "Shattered silence : the rhetoric of an American female labor reform association /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250098488.

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Heist, Jacob C. "A Call to Liberty: Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494413343336445.

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Dabars, William B. "Disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity rhetoric and context in the American research university /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1680035121&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Deys, Kellie Leigh. "Consumperialism American consumer imperialism, the rhetoric of freedom, and female embodiment /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.

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Preston, Cynthea Reid. "Marilynne Robinson's housekeeping: The rhetoric of the new women's reality." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/787.

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Li, Yuanyuan. "A Critical-comparative Study of Chinese American Rhetoric: Analyzing the Fortune Cookie as a Discourse." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1482435567854874.

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