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The Rhetoric GarageAt the Rhetoric Garage, we put current political and cultural texts up on the lift and check them out with a variety of rhetorical tools and discourse diagnostics. And don't forget to have your ethos changed and your tropes rotated every 30,000 words |
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The changing faces of James Bond...
on Nov 25, 2006 in James Bond Daniel Craig movies criticism Sean Connery Pierce Brosnan 007 With the new Bond movie, Casino Royale, slated for release here in Australia next week, I thought I'd have a ramble about everyone's favourite spy, 007. Above: The 007 Pistol logoSo what caused me to decide to dedicate a WHOLE post... lol... to the s...
Berube on Kubrick's Silence in 2001
on Dec 28, 2006 in movies criticism While he attends the MLA, Michael Berube has posted, in two parts, his 1993 essay offering a novel explication of 2001 as, inter alia, a political rumination steeped in the Cold War that prevailed at the movie's 1968 release. The point is not the ac...
Lolita, the Great American Novel?
on Jan 7, 2007 in love songs ruminations criticism writing veneration commentary I hate that phrase: Great American Novel. It's no different than any other attempt to apply abosolute superlatives to art of any sort, and as such it's an intrinsically silly exercise. That's not to say it isn't fun, though.So who are the usual suspe...
Critique of Chastdel Flashback: Burden of History
on Jan 25, 2007 in writing technique criticism dialogue (My comments will be in Purple. Words and punctuation that need to be deleted are in Red. Words and punctuation I added are in Purple. At the end I will have general comments about the passage.)Keil Las’Demar, Shadow Warrior of Darnok Terien, stood...
Creo, Creare, Creavi
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