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  • (Com)Posing Rhetorical Ecology: Cultivating Phronesis via Permacultural Praxis

    Creator:
    Ferris, Ian
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    Contrasting the productive ground gained in ecological rhetorical theory through embedded fieldwork, composition as a discipline has yet to enact such transformative engagements with ecology. In this thesis, I put forward a praxis for ecological rhetoric and composition through permaculture design, utilizing the design framework’s system of ethics and principles...
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    information and must continuously be reconsidered. And as design- compositionist Matthew Newcomb contends

  • "If You're Not Outraged...": White Feminist Feelings, Rhetoric, and the Enthymematic Circulation of White Supremacy

    Creator:
    Landberg, Brooke
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    While a number of scholars in the field of Rhetoric and Composition continue to reassert the importance of whiteness as an object of study, a sense of anxiety about the effectiveness of extant antiracist rhetorical practices permeate recent scholarship. This thesis engages with thinking from black studies, afropessimism, and transnational...
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    Matthew Jackson’s work in “The Enthymematic Hegemony of Whiteness: The Enthymeme as Antiracist

  • "Style upon style": The Handmaid's Tale as a palimpsest of genres

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    Boulware, Taylor J.
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    This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
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    are and when we are, whether we like it or not, and disguise it how we may. As Robertson Davies has

  • A Game of Silent Irreverence : Passive Resistance in The Dalles, Oregon

    Creator:
    Maddoux, Maryanne
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    210 East First Street (site 35WS453) contains the only extant remains of a once thriving Overseas Chinese settlement, in the city of The Dalles, Oregon. Very little is known about the everyday lives of these early settlers, or the pressures that they faced. This thesis will help to enrich the...
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    along Mill Creek, but neither post lasted for very long (Robertson 2012:103, McNeal 1953:1). The

  • Evaluation of the 2001 pilot Oregon Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program

    Creator:
    Saylor, Kirsten N.
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    The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP), piloted in Oregon in 2001, provided $100 worth of vouchers (aka coupons) to low-income seniors to buy fresh local produce from farmers at farmers' markets and roadside stands. Presented in a political ecology framework, this research integrated the perspectives of beneficiaries and their...
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