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A genealogy of eccentricity.
(1998)
Finally, in the Victorian era, the eccentric lost yet more cultural power and even began to disappear. Eccentricity was idealized by many, but this only made the eccentric seem a mere (and foolish) idealist. Additionally, ...
The "supramundane": The Kantian sublime in Lovecraft, Clarke, and Gibson.
(1998)
Failure of understanding is the basis of Kant's theory of the sublime. As shown in the Critique of Judgement, this painful experience allows insight into the sublime. The failure delineates the limitations of our capacity ...
Naming the violence: Women's domestic violence narratives.
(1998)
Long before our twentieth-century, psycho-socio-political understanding of domestic violence, women wrote about this form of oppression in their letters, diaries, journals, essays, novels, poetry, and tracts. These highly ...
A theory of conflict and cooperation within interlocutor relationships in the discourse of synchronous computer conferencing.
(1998)
This project investigates the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in the construction of interlocutor relationships in synchronous computer conferencing (SCC). Chapters One and Two of the dissertation present my qualitative ...
A Rhetorical analysis of the polular society addresses of Thermidor /
(1998)
The encouragement the letters give to violence and further terror are products of their orality. Because they were composed by committees' deliberations and for the specific purpose of being read aloud, the letters are ...
Ethos and the politics of habit: Class, character, and coercion in Aristotelian rhetorics.
(1998)
Middle-class professional ethos has undergone significant shifts from the "personality market" described by Erich Fromm and C. Wright Mills to the postmodern knowledge worker or "symbolic analyst" described by Robert Reich. ...
The mirror speaks: The female voice in medieval dialogue poetry and drama.
(1998)
I argue that medieval literature, despite its overt emphasis on male sensibility and subjectivity, is permeated with the influence of the feminine. Through dialogue exchanges between male and female characters, identity ...