Browsing by Author "May, Cedrick"
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Black Rhetoric: The Art Of Thinking Being
Kinkead, April Leigh (English, 05-16-2013)This dissertation examines the Black Hermeneutic Situation in order to uncover Black Rhetoric's possibilities for thinking Being. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics and his theories on thinking and Being ... -
Digitalism: Towards A Theory Of Digital Rhetoric And Composition
Chambers, Jared (English, 2014-09-17)In this thesis, I argue that the text and the textual are inherently digital and, thus, have properties that are information theoretic in origin. From that premise, I use an interdisciplinary approach to construct a theory ... -
Make it plain, preacha': African American rhetorical license, African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and a modern rendering of epideictic rhetoric
Similly, Leslie E. (2014-09-17)In this project, I contend that African American rhetoric, namely African American sermonic rhetoric, constitutes a distinct, culturally specialized variety of rhetoric generated out of the distinctive circumstances of the ... -
Networked Authorship: A Community Of Creators In Born-digital Literature
Dupew, Tricia JostAuthorship of born-digital literature exists in a state referent to but decidedly apart from authorship of more traditional printed texts. Ranging far from the idea that the author exists in a state of solitary genius, ... -
SERMONIC FUGUES EVALUATED IN A THEMATIC COLLECTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HOMILETICAL RESPONSES TO THE 9/11 TRAGEDY USING DISTANT READING ANALYTICS
Ford, Terrance Andrew; 0000-0001-6479-360X (2021-05-05)This dissertation project introduces and evaluates the coined rhetorical/homiletical concept of the sermonic fugue. The term is an expanded adaptation of the musico-literary fugue principally in the context of thematic ... -
STRONGER THAN FICTION: LITERARY AND CULTURAL MERIT OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN FICTION
Riley, Shewanda LaRue; 0000-0003-3152-9807 (2020-12-08)My primary goals with this dissertation are to take a close look at how contemporary African American Christian fiction performs important literary and cultural functions and explore how these works reinforce or subvert ... -
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
Falkenstein, Misty DawnMarie; 0000-0002-7806-5598 (2018-11-27)In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ...