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Toward A Participatory Rhetoric: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, Charles Kay Smith
Toward A Participatory Rhetoric: Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, Charles Kay Smith
Charles Kay Smith
This essay is a literary analysis of the special form of satire Swift invented for A Modest Proposal. Some of Swift's more conventional classical figures of speech have already been noted, though more or less in isolation to one another as well as to larger designs and aesthetic aims. Swift's genius in A Modest Proposal is to create a speaker whose monologue keeps two distinct styles operational at all times. The style of which the speaker is aware is constantly opposed by covert and innovative verbal and grammatical techniques which the proposer sets in motion but of which he remains …
Some Aspects Of Nineteenth Century American Folk Life As Reflected In The Shaker Journals Of South Union, Kentucky, Jean Thomason
Some Aspects Of Nineteenth Century American Folk Life As Reflected In The Shaker Journals Of South Union, Kentucky, Jean Thomason
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study will describe many of these practices which have been recorded in the journals of the society at South Union and will identify origins, similarities and differences as they relate to the practices of the people of the surrounding geographic region.
A Look At Comic Books, Mark Chapel
A Look At Comic Books, Mark Chapel
Honors Theses
This short study attempts to define and analyze the comic book thoroughly enough to enable the reader to draw his own conclusions about the unique little magazines. The writer also tries to evaluate the worth and possible place in American culture of comic books. Are comic books a menace, a "noxious mushroom growth" as a critic stated in 1943? Are they a harmless diversion as psychologist William Charles Marston upholds? Do comic books deserve a niche in libraries or should they be burned as trash?