Podcasting Latinidad as a Crónica Rhetorical Narrative in Stories, Music, and Entrevistas

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Zazil Reyes García ◽  
Diana Isabel Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Narrative

Towards a theory of grotesque transparency: The case of Hugo Chávez

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 653-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Nahon-Serfaty
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Presidential Speech ◽  
Hugo Chavez ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

The main objective of this article is to lay the foundations of a theory of grotesque transparency that looks into the aesthetics of ‘ocular politics’. Inspired by Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s definition of the esperpento – a grotesque representation of the hero – this interpretative schema uncovers the rhetorical, narrative and iconic mechanisms that constitute a form of political communication that creates the illusion of total affective disclosure. We tested the premises of this theory by studying a public performance of the now-deceased Venezuela President Hugo Chávez where discursive genres overlap (presidential speech, comic soundbites and preacher’s homily), dissolving the ‘truth’ in an ‘excess of transparency’, and also performing a function of social criticism through desecration of institutional formalities.

Dangerous Darwinism

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fleming ◽  
Jane Goodall
Keyword(s):  
Culture Shock ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
General Reader ◽  
Rhetorical Strategy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Psychological Threat ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

We are concerned with a particular rhetorical narrative that appeared in the early stages of the Darwin debate but that has been fiercely resurgent in the past two decades. Freud wrote of Darwin's theory as one of three major blows to which human vanity had been submitted at the hands of science. Assertions that “Darwin's dangerous idea” came as a horrible shock to the Victorians and that it is still a profound psychological threat, and therefore widely resisted, remain current. When such assertions are offered as the premise on which Darwin is to be approached by the general reader, they call for some detailed scrutiny, with regard both to the bases on which they are made, and the effect they have on the terms of public debate. This paper offers a critique of the culture-shock myth based on a re-examination of Victorian reactions to Darwin's work, and on an analysis of the ways in which the myth functions as a rhetorical strategy in our own time.

scholarly journals Rhetorical Structure of Superstitious Images in Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rufaidah Kamal Abdulmajeed
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Problem Solution ◽  
Response Evaluation ◽  
Rhetorical Structure ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Lexical Items ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge was written in a way to inspire fear and create a somber, dark and terrifying atmosphere to attract the readers’ attention and to steer the attention of the readers to the themes of supernatural events and deep superstitions, thus highlighting these salient themes.The main aim of this study is to highlight the superstitious images in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and analyse them according to Hoey’s (1983) Problem-Solution Pattern of rhetorical structure of discourse analysis by showing how certain lexical items can signal the narrative structure of the whole texts. The discourse analysis of the stanzas that carry superstitious images shows that this theory is applicable not only to sentences but to poems as well. Stanzas as grammatical units with complete thoughts can be analysed as well since they have the same narrative structure. The results show that all the stanzas, the subject of the analysis, have the rhetorical narrative structure components. They are namely; situation, problem, response, evaluation whether positive or negative.

scholarly journals Współczesne kierunki badań nad Listem do Filemona

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Bartosz Adamczewski
Keyword(s):  
Important Task ◽  
Critical Method ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

In the period of last two or three decades interpretation of the Letter to Philemon has undergone significant changes. Exegetes applying the historical-critical method proposed recently several new ways of reconstructing the situation that occasioned Paul’s writing the letter. It has been suggested e.g. that Onesimus was no runaway, but probably an envoy from Colossae, or Philemon’s estranged brother, or a slave justifiably seeking intercession, or a roamer. Synchronic methods applied by many exegetes (structural, rhetorical, narrative and pragmatic criticism) elucidate various kinds of influence of the letter upon the reader. More and more popular becomes also nowadays manifold liberationist approach. However, beyond applying these various hermeneutic procedures there is also, at least for believing exegetes, an important task of adequate explaining the significance of the Letter to Philemon as an inspired writing.

Rugemødre, rejser og nye reproduktionsmetaforer. Weblogs om transnationalt surrogatmoderskab

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (113) ◽  
pp. 79-100
Author(s):  
Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Western World ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Biological Aspects ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Specialized Services ◽  
Travel Abroad ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

SURROGACY MOTHERS, TRAVELS AND NEW REPRODUCTION METAPHORS | Surrogacy is a growing industry in India, as still more infertile couples, homosexual couples and singles from the Western world, travel abroad to fulfill their dream of having a baby. Indian clinics offer highly specialized services in exotic surroundings, an obliging culture and legislation, and remarkably low payments. This article examines and discusses how the conception of motherhood is constructed in public weblogs narrated by parents and intended parents of Indian surrogate children. The chapter aims at analyzing the rhetorical, narrative and metaphorical strategies of the blogs, focusing on how the biological aspects of motherhood (for instance pregnancy and giving birth) and the transnational aspects are negotiated and reinterpreted in the present context of globalization, tech nological possibilities and consumer culture.

Writing ‘Parrhesia’, Narrating ‘the Other Rwandan Genocide’

Matatu ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 418-434
Author(s):  
Nick Mdika Tembo
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Republic Of Congo ◽  
Testimonial Literature ◽  
Rwandan Genocide ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Rhetorical Narrative

At the end of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, close to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus had been murdered, and over 1.5 million people were either internally displaced or had fled over the borders into neighbouring countries and beyond for fear of reprisals from the advancing Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). This article places Marie Béatrice Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter (2004) and Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga’s Dying to Live (2012) within the context of post-1994 Rwandan testimonial literature that writes what is feared to be “the other Rwandan genocide,” particularly against those who fled to eastern Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). In the two narratives, I argue, Umutesi and Ndacyayisenga destabilise and deconstruct the claim of genocide to create a literature that captures the anxieties of genocide memories in Rwanda. Specifically, Umutesi and Ndacyayisenga deploy a rhetorical narrative form that employs cynicism, bitter humour and a harsh tone to suggest that the suffering of Rwandans must not be seen, or even told, from a single perspective, and that only a balanced engagement with extant issues would lead to genuine reconciliation in Rwanda. To illustrate the ideological purpose at work in the two texts, I reference Michel Foucault’s parrhesia as a framework for understanding how the authors contest genocide memories in Rwanda.

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