While trauma occurs in separation, healing happens relation, where the inner dynamics of voice and expression play an important role narrating a traumatic experience. In her acceptance speech for 2018 Nobel Prize Literature, novelist Olga Tokarczuk envisioned new form literary narrator, one who sees beyond singular point view to include interrelatedness world interdependence all beings. this ar...

The September 11th attacks on the U.S. caused unanticipated changes in global arena. Their depiction fictional discourse contributed to broad understanding of events and their memorialization. In this paper, I analyze Mohsin Hamid’s novel Reluctant Fundamentalist which presents perspective those who were silenced dominant rhetoric 9/11 tragedy single-mindedly blamed as “evil others.” Through hi...

Simile and allusion are two rhetorical aspects that have been taken into consideration by the scholars of rhetoric since long time ago. Some of the Iranian poets have used the capacities of the Persian language and integrated these aspects to create a modern rhetoric which in this study is introduced as rhetorical simile. The objective of the present study is the investigation of this rhetoric ...

This article addresses the problem of the ‘inscription’ of religious meaning within the poetic descriptions of the material world and existential experience; it analyses this problem with reference to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The article begins with a brief review of Hopkins’ poetic goals, and then turns to the interrelations between the thematic and rhetorical concerns in his writi...

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

In this study, we examine how online games, like the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) EverQuest, are represented and controlled through media rhetoric. We look at international attempts to regulate their use through policy, and unearth some of the ways in which media reports have constructed public opinion of online games. We then contrast those reports with an ethnograph...

Carlo Michelstaedter’s Persuasion and Rhetoric (1910) is one of the best examples of what Massimo Cacciari calls the early twentieth century “metaphysics of youth.” Persuasion and Rhetoric is the result of Michelstaedter’s academic investigation on the concepts of “persuasion” and “rhetoric” in Plato and Aristotle. Michelstaedter saw in Plato’s corpus the gradual abandonment of Parmenidean “bei...

Purpose – To contribute to the mapping of the social media discourse involving politicians and their followers during election campaigns, we examined Israeli politicians’ Aristotelian rhetoric on Facebook and its reception during the 2013 election campaign. D ow nl oa de d by U N IV E R SI T Y O F H A IF A A t 0 0: 49 3 0 M ar ch 2 01 5 (P T ) Design/methodology/approach – We examined the Arist...

It is important for students to engage in adequate deliberate practice in order to develop programming expertise. However, students often encounter anxiety when they begin to learn. This can present a challenge to educators because such anxiety can influence practice behaviour. This thesis situates this challenge within the ControlValue Theory of Achievement Emotions, emphasising a need for dom...