Several rhetoricians have recently called for an increased interest in the “polysemy” of the
text, but ironically, they are not all talking about the same thing. While they agree about how …

High on the edge of a promontory, Pocahontas, her long, glossy hair blowing in the wind,
studies the sea-blue horizon. With a body like a Barbie doll, the skin of a high-paid model …

This paper provides a roadmap for the application of dialectics to the study of liveness. The
roadmap incorporates the utterance chain from relational dialectics theory to describe live …

What makes a song popular? The following chapter wishes to shed light on this question by
scrutinizing several formal features of popular music which were hypothesized to affect the …

The constant dialogue between literary forms of the Old and the New World is the core
concern of the essays in Through the Periscope, which examine these ever-changing …

This article examined the Bob Dylan song,“Murder Most Foul,” using the illusion of life
rhetorical perspective. The song's music and lyrics together speak to an American …

Bob Dylan and John Lennon are two of the most iconic names in popular music. Dylan is
arguably the twentieth century's most important singer-songwriter. Lennon was founder and …

Cultures around the world often have found power in music. Whether acting as the
energizing force behind a film or a social protest, music has an amazing educational and …

Rhetoricians tend to discuss the virtuosic--or incredibly skilled--performance solely in terms
of the superficial and deceptive uses of talent, a view that constrains the rhetorical nature of …

This dissertation examines the theme of apocalypse in Bob Dylan's songs through an
analysis of both words and music of Dylan's apocalyptically-themed songs from the 1960s to …