Search Results - "rhetoric"

Classical constructions papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Table of Contents: “…Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. …”
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The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... …”
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Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure /

Table of Contents: “…Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. …”
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Classical constructions papers in memory of Don Fowler, classicist and epicurean /

Table of Contents: “…Laocoon's point of view : walking the Roman way / Don Fowler -- Life as play, life as a play : Montaigne and the epicureans / Phillip Mitsis -- Bicycles, centaurs and man-faced ox-creatures : ontological instability in Lucretius / Gordon Campbell -- Didaxis, rhetoric, and the law in Lucretius / Alessandro Schiesaro -- Making an exemplum of yourself : Cicero and Augustus / Michèle Lowrie -- Natura narratur : Tullius Laureas' elegy for Cicero (Pliny, Nat. 31.8) / Llewelyn Morgan -- Contrasts / Philip Hardie -- Horace's body, Horace's books / Joseph Farrell -- Ovid among the conspiracy theorists / Stephen Hinds -- Haec tum Roma fuit : past, present, and closure in Silius Italicus' Punica / Ben Tipping -- Petrarch's Lucan and the Africa / Matthew Leigh -- Translating antiquity : intertextuality, anachronism, and archaism / Deborah H. …”
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The letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / by Cain, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'The voice of one calling in the desert' -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint' -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... …”
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Compelling confessions the politics of personal disclosure /

Table of Contents: “…Pinegar, and Lezlee J. Ware -- Rhetoric's inescapable grasp: strategic disclosure and the moment of truth / Richard E. …”
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Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: auteur, genre, and the rhetorics of horror -- Unconstrained bodies in the films of George Romero. …”
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A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell /

Table of Contents: “…Stanford University's Cavendish manuscript : Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton -- Texts presented to Elizabeth I on the university progresses -- Analysing a private library, with a shelf-list attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 -- Young Milton in his letters -- The itinerant sibling : Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk -- Milton, the attentive Mr Skinner, and the acts and discourses of friendship -- Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 -- Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest -- The earliest Miltonists : Patrick Hume and John Toland -- The ghost of rhetoric : Milton's logic and the Renaissance trivium -- Misprinting Bartholomew Fair : Jonson and the absolute knave -- Reliquiae Baxterianae and the shaping of the seventeenth century -- Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 -- Did Milton read Selden? …”
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Dark directions Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the modern horror film / by Phillips, Kendall R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: auteur, genre, and the rhetorics of horror -- Unconstrained bodies in the films of George Romero. …”
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A concise companion to the study of manuscripts, printed books, and the production of early modern texts : a festschrift for Gordon Campbell /

Table of Contents: “…Stanford University's Cavendish manuscript : Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton -- Texts presented to Elizabeth I on the university progresses -- Analysing a private library, with a shelf-list attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 -- Young Milton in his letters -- The itinerant sibling : Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk -- Milton, the attentive Mr Skinner, and the acts and discourses of friendship -- Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 -- Tyranny and tragicomedy in Milton's reading of The tempest -- The earliest Miltonists : Patrick Hume and John Toland -- The ghost of rhetoric : Milton's logic and the Renaissance trivium -- Misprinting Bartholomew Fair : Jonson and the absolute knave -- Reliquiae Baxterianae and the shaping of the seventeenth century -- Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 -- Did Milton read Selden? …”
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Asianisms : Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Seven -- Asianisms from Below: Japanese Civil Society and Visions of Asian Integration from the Late 20th to the 21st CenturyChapter Eight -- Coming to Terms with Asianism: Historical Reconciliation and Asianist History Politics in Contemporary China and Japan; Chapter Nine -- Asia as Future: The Claims and Rhetoric of an Asian Century; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index…”
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Asianisms : Regionalist Interactions and Asian Integration /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Seven -- Asianisms from Below: Japanese Civil Society and Visions of Asian Integration from the Late 20th to the 21st CenturyChapter Eight -- Coming to Terms with Asianism: Historical Reconciliation and Asianist History Politics in Contemporary China and Japan; Chapter Nine -- Asia as Future: The Claims and Rhetoric of an Asian Century; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index…”
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The new inquisitions heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism / by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : heresy -- Heresy and the inquisition -- Czeslaw Milosz and the captive mind -- The archetypal inquisition -- Joseph de Maistre and the Inquisition -- Juan Donoso Cortés and the "sickness" of the liberal state -- Georges Sorel and Charles Maurras : the emergence of secular state corporatism -- Maurice Barrès and Charles Maurras : the nationalist substitute for Catholicism -- The secularization of heresiophobia -- Carl Schmitt, the Inquisition, and totalitarianism -- Carl Schmitt and early modern Western esotericism -- Carl Schmitt and gnosticism -- Communism and the heresy of religion -- Eric Voegelin, anti-gnosticism, and the totalitarian emphasis on order -- The rhetoric of anti-gnosticism -- Voegelinian inquisitors -- Norman Cohn and the pursuit of heretics -- The inner demons of Europe once again -- Theodor Adorno and the "occult" -- Another long, strange trip -- That old bugaboo, "gnosticism," yet again -- An epidemic of evil! …”
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Executing your business transformation how to engage sweeping change without killing yourself or your business /

Table of Contents: “…: how to deal with the mixture of two different recipes for success -- Spin is overrated for creating value : replacing rhetoric with real communication -- Consultants are not an excuse for not knowing your business : how to engage professional services for maximum return.…”
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Measuring medical professionalism

Table of Contents: “…Daugherty -- Measuring specific elements of professionalism / Jon Veloski and Mohammadreza Hojat -- Faculty observations of student professional behavior / John Norcini -- Using critical incident reports and longitudinal observations to assess professionalism / Maxine Papadakis and Helen Loeser -- Content and context of peer assessment / Louise Arnold and David Thomas Stern -- Using reflection and rhetoric to understand professional behaviors / Shiphra Ginsburg and Lorelei Lingard -- The use of portfolios to assess professionalism / Kelly Fryer-Edwards, Linda E. …”
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In the shadow of the incarnation essays on Jesus Christ in the early church in honor of Brian E. Daley, S.J. /

Table of Contents: “…Beeley -- Two early Nicenes : Eustathius of Antioch and Marcellus of Ancyra / Kelley McCarthy Spoerl -- Loving Christ according to Origen and Augustine / Basil Studer -- Augustine's christology : its spirituality and rhetoric / Rowan Douglas Williams -- Christology as contemplative practice : understanding the union of natures in Augustine's letter 137 / Lewis Ayres -- What was "wrong" with Augustine? …”
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Outsourcing technical communication issues, policies, and practices /

Table of Contents: “…Technical communication and IT oursourcing in India : past, present, and future / Prashant Natarajan and Makarand Pandit -- Defining technical communication in the United States and India : a contrastive analysis of established curricula and desired abilities / Carlos Evia -- Africa goes for outsourcing / Michael Jarvis, Kwadzo Bokor -- Outsourcing of technical communication tasks from German-speaking contexts / Petra Drewer and Charlotte Kaempf -- Approaching outsourcing in rhetoric and professional communication : lessons from U.S.…”
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Communicative practices in workplaces and the professions cultural perspectives on the regulation of discourse and organizations /

Table of Contents: “…Herndl and Adela C. Licona -- Rhetoric of empowerment: genre, activity, and the distribution of capital / David Clark -- Power as interactional accomplishment: an ethnomethodological perspective on the regulation of communicative practice in organizations / Barbara Schneider -- Discourse and regulation: critical text analysis in workplace studies / Brenton Faber -- The antenarrative turn in narrative studies / David M. …”
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Executing your business transformation how to engage sweeping change without killing yourself or your business /

Table of Contents: “…: how to deal with the mixture of two different recipes for success -- Spin is overrated for creating value : replacing rhetoric with real communication -- Consultants are not an excuse for not knowing your business : how to engage professional services for maximum return.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Measuring medical professionalism

Table of Contents: “…Daugherty -- Measuring specific elements of professionalism / Jon Veloski and Mohammadreza Hojat -- Faculty observations of student professional behavior / John Norcini -- Using critical incident reports and longitudinal observations to assess professionalism / Maxine Papadakis and Helen Loeser -- Content and context of peer assessment / Louise Arnold and David Thomas Stern -- Using reflection and rhetoric to understand professional behaviors / Shiphra Ginsburg and Lorelei Lingard -- The use of portfolios to assess professionalism / Kelly Fryer-Edwards, Linda E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view