Search for dissertations about: "rhetoric"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 148 swedish dissertations containing the word rhetoric.

2. 11. Visualizing the Vir Bonus in Charles Dickens's Scenes of Persuasion : The Rhetoric of Pity, Sentiment, Fact, and Debt

   Author : Lisa-Marie Teubler; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Charles Dickens; Fact; Debt; Pity; ethos; logos; pathos; rhetoric; persuasion; kairos; vir bonus;

   Abstract : Charles Dickens’s novels are filled with scenes of persuasion—moments of heightened rhetoric. Throughthese scenes, the novels present a moral rhetoric and a person that uses this rhetoric toward ethicalends: a vir bonus. READ MORE

4. 12. A Rhetoric of Ambivalence : The Memory World of the Nazi Perpetrator in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones

   Author : Alexander Kofod-Jensen; Sofia Wijkmark; Jonas Ingvarsson; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literature; ambivalence; memory; history; World War II; Nazism; Comparative Literature; Litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : In Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (Les Bienveillantes, 2006), a discrepancy is found between the historical account and the personal story, indicating the major ambivalence that arises from the creation of a historical world (noesis) as opposed to a fictional world (poiesis). This major ambivalence is connected to a range of minor ambivalences (and other elements of uncertainty) that are related to the novel’s treatment of the historical period of World War II in ways that unsettle and defamiliarize the typical standards of Holocaust representations. READ MORE

5. 13. Digital rhetoric and poetics : signifying strategies in electronic literature

   Author : Talan Memmott; Ylva Gislén; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : electronic literature;

   Abstract : The dissertation explores computational and media-based signifying strategies in electronic literature from the point of view of reading, writing, programming and design, with a focus on the rhetoric and poetics of heavily mediated, multi-modal digital artifacts. With the introduction of images, animations, audio, and the procedural into the area of literary practice it is perhaps no longer sufficient to consider electronic literature within the domain of traditional concepts of rhetoric or poetics. READ MORE

6. 14. Traditions as Rhetorical Proof: Pauline Argumentation in 1 Corinthians

   Author : Anders Eriksson; Birger Olsson; Lauri Thuren; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; New Testament; Bible; Bibelvetenskap; argumentation; inventio; rhetorical criticism; rhetoric; tradition; 1 Corinthians; Paul; New Testament exegesis; Nya testamentets exegetik;

   Abstract : Previous historical critical research has studied the pre-history of the traditions found in Paul's letters. This study investigates the rhetorical function of these confessions, acclamations and liturgical formulae in Paul's argumentation. READ MORE

7. 15. Jesus and the Forgiveness of Sins: An Aspect of His Prophetic Mission

   Author : Tobias Hägerland; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bible; New Testament; Gospels; historical Jesus; early Judaism; criteria; tradition; sin; forgiveness; christology; ecclesiology; priests; prophets; angels; blasphemy; healing; illness; faith; eschatology; restoration; Isaiah; Messiah; rhetoric; Progymnasmata; chreia; apomnemoneuma;

   Abstract : This study investigates the topic of forgiveness of sins in the mission of the historical Jesus. Gospel material that pertains to the question is authenticated by the use of criteria for historicity and interpreted within the wider context of first-century Judaism as part of a broader reconstruction of Jesus’ career as a healer and prophet. READ MORE