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Degree

Master of Arts, Miami University, English, 2009.

Abstract

This paper examines two paradoxical characteristic of images: images can be both universal and culturally specific. In the context of globalization and decolonization, the strategic employment of the two seemingly opposing characteristics of images can greatly help overcome the challenges in comparative rhetoric. The connection, application and theorization of visual rhetoric within comparative rhetoric, both of which are comparatively new, crossing-boarder disciplines, hold considerable promise in further developing productive communications between Western and non-Western cultures.

Subject Headings

Rhetoric

Keywords

Comparative rhetoric; visual rhetoric; culture

Committee / Advisors

LuMing Mao, PhD (Committee Chair)
Heidi McKee, PhD (Committee Member)
HuaTong Sun, PhD (Committee Member)

Pages

41p.

Document number: miami1250174880
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250174880

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