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Letters To Mother: A One-Act Play, Susan R. Brock
Letters To Mother: A One-Act Play, Susan R. Brock
Masters Theses
Few graduate students in English elect to write a creative thesis to complete their degrees, their tendency perhaps to believe that a thesis based on research seems a more scholarly endeavor. I do not think one could successfully argue the superiority of one type over the other, simply because the two are quite different. While a research thesis can require the reading and analysis of another author's work, a creative thesis requires the writing, reading, and analysis of one's own work. For that reason, the main body of this thesis consists of an introductory essay in addition to the creative …
99 Bottles: An Exploration Of Oral Interpretation As Rhetoric, Jeffrey T. Hess
99 Bottles: An Exploration Of Oral Interpretation As Rhetoric, Jeffrey T. Hess
Masters Theses
This thesis attempts to combine the elements of oral interpretation and rhetoric in order to create a group performance piece that contains interesting movement and dialogue as well as persuasive rhetorical elements. This new genre of group oral interpretation is called Rhetorical Theatre and implements only non-fictional material for the manuscript. Metaphoric blocking and direction is discussed, as well as the use of other conventions currently employed in group interpretation.