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Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
Satire's Club: Reality, Reason, And Knowledge In Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
Theses Digitization Project
Satire has been credited with possessing the power to deconstruct the distinctions we make between opposing concepts and thus lead us to reevaluate established views. Structuralist Ferdinand de Saussure claimed that language relies on sets of opposites, or binary pairs, to create meaning. Building on this idea, deconstructionist Jacques Derrida explored the hierarchies he believed were inherent in all binary pairs, arguing that on concept in each pair occupies a superior position in our consciousness.
Ballads As "Poetic" Rhetoric In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Norma Jeanne Peterson
Ballads As "Poetic" Rhetoric In The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Norma Jeanne Peterson
Theses Digitization Project
This thesis explores the rhetorical effect ballads have had as a medium of argument for those who were "free of literary influences and fairly homogeneous in character." The ballad, speaks to us poetically and by tradition reveals human interests emerging from distress and frustration. Three men (John Lomax, Alan Lomax and Harry Smith) were instrumental in collecting and recording early ballads before they were lost; this effect has lingered from an early period in time to the 1960s, and beyond when the value of ballads was rediscovered.
Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander
Whitman, Elegy, And The Nineteenth Century Culture Of Death And Mourning, Susan Renee Nylander
Theses Digitization Project
In this thesis, the author offers a close reading and analysis of several of Walt Whitman's elegies and poems about death and mourning through the nineteenth century practices of mourning and death.