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From Public/Private Spheres To Tout Autre Est Tout Autre: Christianity And Politics In Carl Schmitt's The Concept Of The Political And Jacques Derrida's The Gift Of Death, William Durden
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This essay argues that Carl Schmitt's political theory in The Concept of the Political functions as a site for exploring the relationship between Christianity and politics in Western history. The author suggests that Schmitt's theory is both informed by and yet inconsistent to orthodox Catholicism through an analysis of the terms public and private as used in Schmitt's writings and in St. Augustine's The City of God. Drawing on Jacques Derrida's consideration in The Gift of Death of the concept of responsibility, the author also posits that Schmitt's political definition, here representative of realist politics, is not only opposed to …
Approaching Popular Music In The Field Of English, Christopher Reid Kerr
Approaching Popular Music In The Field Of English, Christopher Reid Kerr
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In light of current disciplinary shifts toward digital media and multi-modal textual analysis, this thesis explores how the field of English can take up popular music for scholarly study. Through a blend of text and context, the first chapter maps a methodology to discuss central zones of analysis which include audience, author, composition, media, and cultural context -- fluid zones of analysis which hold textual relationships. The second chapter isolates two forms of media, the audio recording and live performance, to discuss specific features of authorship, authenticity, audience rituals, and remediation. As an application of the theory, chapter three explores …
We Have Another Moment: "Rhetoric And Composition" + "Web 2.0", Amanda M. (Amanda Marie) Hill
We Have Another Moment: "Rhetoric And Composition" + "Web 2.0", Amanda M. (Amanda Marie) Hill
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"We Have Another Moment: 'Rhetoric and Composition' + 'Web 2.0'" responds to recent rhetoric and composition scholarship on digital writing, such as that of Kathleen Blake Yancey, who claims that the internet has given rise to a "writing public." The writer argues that not only do we have a writing public that is changing the nature of writing, but we have a writing public that is changing the nature of the way in which information is delivered, organized, conceptualized, marketed, and copyrighted. The writer analyzes the rhetoric surrounding "web 2.0," the current manifestation of the writing public, and its components …