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This dissertation is a study of the "American imperialism argument" at the turn of the century. This argument was articulated by those who believed America's religious and commercial destiny demanded the annexation of the Philippine Islands, delivered to the U.S. as a result of …

This dissertation discusses the literary structure of the Book of Amos as found in the Hebrew Scriptures and evaluates its contribution to the book's argument. The term argument is used throughout this study to describe the synchronic development of the overall message of the bo…

The principal claim defended in this thesis is that for Aristotle arousing the emotions of others can amount to giving them proper grounds for conviction, and hence a skill in doing so is properly part of an expertise in rhetoric. We set out Aristotle’s view of rhetoric as exerc…

I. This interdisciplinary study applies selected tropes of the letter and diary as types of personal writing to a study of the epistolary novel So Long a Letter. Bâ herself acknowledges and foregrounds both the letter and diary as features in the title and first paragraph of the…

Despite the prominence of the issue across time, scholarly accounts of population rhetoric remain limited. Those analyses that do respond to this current of public argument focus overwhelmingly on actors such as Paul Ehrlich and R. Thomas Malthus, and on extreme instantiations o…