Sökning: "Classical Rhetoric"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 26 avhandlingar innehållade orden Classical Rhetoric.
1. The Epistemology of Rhetoric : Plato, Doxa and Post-Truth
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to develop an epistemology of rhetoric in light of the apparent contemporary post-truth condition of society. Epistemology is hereby understood as concerned with principles for knowledge production within the academic discipline of rhetoric, as well as with an understanding of knowledge production in the public realm. LÄS MER
2. Actiokapitalet : retorikens ickeverbala resurser
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of actio. Actio refers to how a speech is performed in a public setting. Actio differs from nonverbal communication in general in that actio is performed in a rhetorical situation with the intention to be persuasive. LÄS MER
3. Vältalighet och mannafostran : retorikutbildningen i svenska skolor och gymnasier 1724-1807
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this dissertation is to explore the connections between rhetoric and civic and moral education. In the Latin schools (trivial schools, cathedral schools, and gymnasiums) in eighteenth-century Sweden, rhetoric still had a prominent position. LÄS MER
4. Weeping for the res publica : Tears in Roman political culture
Sammanfattning : The thesis explores the meaning and function of tears in Roman political culture during the Republic and the Early Empire in various historical settings: mourning, the law court, and in different political contexts where power, authority, and subjection were expressed or exercised. This is carried through by reading representations of weeping in Greek and Latin literary works in different genres, written by different authors. LÄS MER
5. Celebrating with Words : Studies in the Rhetorical Works of the Gaza School
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the School of Gaza, a circle of rhetoricians in Late Antique Palestine. Special attention is paid to Choricius and Procopius of Gaza, and in particular to their epideictic works. LÄS MER